Wild East 
photography 
The Prairie Map 
I created The Prairie Map with Dana Karwas after a trip through the Great Plains region of the central United States. The collaborative online map is a way for...
digital 
The Terrors of Basket-Weaving 
This summer I directed a short film based on a story by Patricia Highmsith (Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train) and was produced with the generous support of...
film 
Machines in the Garden 
A large-scale audiovisual installation depicting the role that machines and other environmental technology play in shaping the Kansas landscape. (Currently in...
film, installation 
West 
An ongoing series of landscapes exploring processes and effects of environmental design in The West, including work done in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey,...
photography 
Out in the Real World 
John Geraci is a tech innovator who thinks like an architect. Through projects like DIYcity he has been working to improve the urban experience through technology....
film 
counter space 
Tucked away in the back corner of the MoMA's second floor is counter space, a well-curated exhibit walks us through the evolution of the modern kitchen, both in...
ideas 
Light Outside 
photography 
Army of Engineers 
There is a powerful, growing demand for technologists in New York City. Startups compete for talent, seducing them away from Silicon Valley and from overseas. ...
ideas 
The Future Spaces 
An interview with Mark Collins at Columbia Architecture about the role of architects in the development of the internet. Check out their work at The Cloud Lab and...
film 
Extending the Mind 
An interview with Toru Hasegawa at Columbia Architecture about the role of architects in the development of the internet. Check out their work at The Cloud Lab and...
film 
The Facebook Colony 
When English settlers arrived in The New World they had a very different conception of the land than the Native Americans who already occupied it. Many of the...
installation, ideas 
Wilderness Workshop 
The first ever Wilderness Workshop took place on Saturday, December the 4th at The Ledge in Cortlandt Manor, New York. The workshop was led by Gabriel Winer and...
education 
Nuclear Wilderness 
While exploring Roderick Nash's classic "Wilderness and the American Mind", I was drawn to a talk by Peter Galison. He is in progress on a film about "zones of...
ideas 
Grasses 
A minimalist ethnography about Montana sheephearders, Sweetgrass is a close-up study of their fading relationship with the American wilderness. It reminded me of...
ideas 
Mindwalk 
This 1990 feature film directed by Bernt Amadeus Capra, based in turn on the book The Turning Point by his brother Fritjof Capra, is a fascinating and mind-altering...
ideas 
Village Homes 
Eight years after writing my undergraduate thesis on Village Homes, I returned to the sustainable community in Davis, CA to see it for the first time. Village Homes...
research 
See-Through Wall 
Exhibited in 2004, The See-Through Wall was the first collaboration of Gabriel Winer and Dana Karwas in the creation of new environments. It is a time machine that...
installation, digital