Spectropolis projects: Twenty-Four Dollar Island by Trebor Scholz

About Twenty-Four Dollar Island: People who live in, work in or visit Lower Manhattan usually learn about it from guide books, corporate, or city-run websites. Twenty-Four Dollar Island aims to change that. It is a is a project to create free, complete, up-to-date and reliable material about Lower Manhattan. Open content means that anyone can add information about museums, communities, schools and news about the rebuilding process. You can add stories of personal encounters, places to sleep, secret locations, images and stories of demonstrations, new bike lanes, local histories or narratives of your experiences in Lower Manhattan. In a few simple steps you can contribute to the map and tell your friends.

Twenty-Four Dollar Island started in April 2004 and now contains several hundred entries. During Spectropolis, Trebor Scholz will invite passers-by to participate in this project and put themselves on the map.
About Trebor Scholz: Trebor Scholz is an East Berlin-born, New York-based media artist who works collaboratively and individually in the fields of new media art, event-based cultural practice, new media arts education, media archeology, and web-specific art. Scholz has been invited to lecture nationally and internationally, venues including 12th Symposium on Electronic Arts (Helsinki, Stockholm, Tallin), Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference (Singapore), Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (Helsinki, NIFCA), International Symposium on Electronic Arts ISEA 2004 (Helsinki/ Tallin), Stanford University, NewMediaNation (Bratislava, Slovakia), CCAC (San Francisco), Version3 (N5M, Chicago), Tactical Media Lab at New York University, PS1 (Contemporary Art Center New York City), Haute Ecole d'Art (Geneva, Switzerland), University of California Los Angeles, Brooklyn Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Dartmouth College, Sarah Lawrence College, Academy of Visual Arts (Leipzig, Germany), San Francisco State University, University of California San Diego, Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities (Canterbury, UK), and The School of the Art Institute in Chicago.

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