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Picture Projects,
a NYC-based studio founded in 1995, uses new media technologies,
audio and documentary photography to examine complex social issues.
Over the past twelve years, the studio has become well known for
its unique use of interactive narrative in both commercial and
documentary work. Picture Projects produces websites and interactive
installations for cultural institutions including The Women’s
Museum in Dallas, Texas, The American Museum of Natural History,
The Tenement Museum in New York City, and Harvard University's
Schlesinger Library, and also includes clients such as IBM, National
Voting Rights Institute and the Visiting Nurse Service of New
York.
The studio's two most recent documentaries are 360degrees.org
- Perspectives on the U.S. Criminal Justice System and The Sonic
Memorial Project, an open archive and online audio installation
of the history of The World Trade Center. SonicMemorial.org
is the first online project to receive a Peabody
Award since the category was introduced a few years ago.
The site also received a Gracie
Allen Award from Women in Television and Radio.
360degrees.org
grew out of our concern about the growing numbers of incarcerated
Americans. We spent three years researching the criminal justice
system, working with advisors, and scholars, securing funding
and interviewing inmates, victims and family members, judges,
lawyers and corrections officers. Picture Projects built a diverse
team of scholars, writers, programmers and radio producers to
bring to light stories and statistics that are often overlooked.
360degrees.org was recently given the Online
Journalism Award for Most Creative Use of the Medium, the
Pew Center for Civic Journalism's Batten
Award for Innovation, the Silver
Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, and a Webby
Award
for Net.art.
In our current
projects, we continue to weave new technologies — wireless,
broadband, satellite — and smart design into an ongoing exploration
of our social fabric through first-person stories, dynamic data
and dialogue. Our projects include: the interactive exhibition "In Our Own Words" at the Brooklyn Historical Society; The Sonic
Memorial Project with National Public Radio; Enterprising
Women: 250 Years of American Business, a museum installation
and website for a traveling exhibition developed for the Schlesinger
Library at Harvard University; RaceTalks,
a website in collaboration with law professors Lani Guinier and
Susan Sturm who are working to create spaces for experimentation,
learning, and problem solving around issues of race, gender, social
justice and social change; Tactical
Media, a website for the NYU Center for Media Culture and
History that explores how new media technologies are strategically
used to further or change contemporary social issues; Toldot,
an online Jewish Museum for kids; A redesign for the architectural
firm VSBA; Six
Months, a website accompanying the WNYC Public Radio series
on New York City, six months after September 11, 2001; The Tenement
Museum's Virtual
Tour; and Conversations
with History, a website for UC Berkeley that features unedited
interviews with distinguished men and women from all over the
world.
Director:
Alison Cornyn
is an artist, founding partner and Director of Picture Projects.
Her installation and video work as well as curatorial projects
have been exhibited in Europe, South America and the U.S. She
has worked as an art director on films in Los Angeles and New
York and has extensive experience in interactive and web design
as well as in building online communities. Cornyn produced an
international, online dialogue for The New York Times Bosnia:
Uncertain Paths to Peace (1997) – the first website to be
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. She has taught at City College
and guest lectured about digital documentaries at New York University
and other institutions. Cornyn curated b/t*, a new media show
at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, Fl (1998).
The exhibition was part of the Boston Cyberarts Festival in 2001.
She has a B.A. from Connecticut College, a Masters in Interactive
Telecommunications from NYU and an M.F.A. from Hunter College.
She was an artist in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
during 2000-2001.
History of Picture Projects
Contact us at: info@picture-projects.com
Picture Projects
76 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
fon (212) 226-3099
fax (212) 505-7131
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