COLORING BOOK


I recently published a coloring book about math via the MIT Press.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/beautiful-symmetry

This is an illustrated and gamified introduction to group theory, both online and on paper.
The digital version is freely available and brings the illustrations to life in interactive animations.

http://beautifulsymmetry.onl






[bike] swarm

media.mit.edu/projects/bike-swarm

A decentralized system of synchronized lights to coordinate urban mobility swarms





Media Lab Festival of Learning (FoL) 2023 "Crazy Ideas Pitch"

media.mit.edu/projects/v-labels

I ran a research experiment with the Media Lab community as unknowing study participants. The study was later published in the journal Appetite (link).

To "debrief" the study participants per our IRB protocol, I presented a "crazy idea" at the Media Lab's FoL "Crazy Ideas" pitch session.





Crypto Voting + US Elections: Reality

On the security of blockchain, internet, and end-to-end verifiable voting systems, including the cryptography behind how they work.

https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/crypto-voting-us-elections-reality-554214b5c843

Crypto Voting + US Elections: (Science Fiction) Short Stories From Potential Futures

These stories consider two potential futures for US democracy, branching from our present. One is dystopian, the other utopian.

https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/crypto-voting-us-elections-science-fiction-fb1e4af2d13a


Income, Race, Bikes

aberke.github.io/income-race-bikes

Is the placement of bike-share docks equitable?









Solo gallery exhibition: Wallpaper @ Babycastles

babycastles.com/master-calendar/wallpaper-an-interactive-coloring-exhibition

A solo exhibition at the Babycastles gallery and game arcade in Manhattan, NY. This was an invitation to color on the walls and play with mathematical symmetry challenges, from my project "Illustrating Group Theory".

The exhibition opened with black and white wallpaper posters on white walls. On each poster was a different wallpaper group pattern, accompanied by a description of the symmetries within it, as well as markers and a challenge. The challenge was to participate in a cooperative coloring game: see the symmetries within the wallpaper patterns and add color in a way to maintain the symmetries, in accordance with how others had already added color to the pattern.

There were also pattern worksheets/coloring puzzles on tables alongside the posters. These had patterns from the same wallpaper groups as the posters, but with different designs. They were accompanied by challenges, specific to the wallpaper pattern, for participants to use color to destroy some symmetries while maintaining others.

Babycastles is both a gallery and a game arcade. The arcade cabinets were installed with mathematical art and puzzle games, as well as interfaces to animate the wallpaper patterns seen on the walls.

At the end of the month-long exhibition, the black and white wallpaper pattern posters had been filled with color. The exhibition closing party was an “Algo-rave BBQ” with live coding musical and visual performances within the gallery, and a BBQ in the back patio. With more coloring.








#SyncWithUs

syncwithus.org

Crowd funding to support women's health.



L0v3 Bot

l0v3bot.com

Created at the 2017 Stupid Hackathon.



NY Farmers Markets

Advancing access to healthy and sustainable eating, with a focus on low income families.

Previously @ farmers-markets.nyc