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If you’re here for the first time, this is my current bio:
Kristen Taylor helps companies and organizations build and strengthen communities and storytelling around their work. She is the founder of a geolocative mobile application launching in September 2010 and teaches a graduate class in “Creating Community Environments” at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) during the Fall 2010 semester.
Previously, she has worked at PopTech, PBS, the Knight Foundation, the University of Virginia, the Lineberger Cancer Center, and EuroRSCG. A fervent believer in blogs (she has six), her food photography is widely published online, and her doctoral research maps local currency, shelter, and food to network vibrancy and tolerance.
Still reading? Thank you. There’s more kthread on: Twitter, Flickr, Delicious, Facebook, Vimeo, Soup, and Miro.
And I do have five other blogs, all on Tumblr:
through the screen doors of discretion for miscellany
culturemodding for my research
seaweed butter with Maia Garau for food musings
ffffood with many others for food photography and links
and the serendipity of boise for vintage clothes
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I research how we play with our food, money, and beds; I call it culturemodding.
Here’s my presentation on food and cooperative communities from the Cloud Intelligence Symposium at Ars Electronica 2009:
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We play here. You will find family dance videos (here’s another one). Also, wigs.
I have two amazing sisters. Katrina is a photographer, documentary filmmaker, and craftswoman of kombucha. My sister Kassandra is a fierce dancer and choreographer. I am married on Facebook to the dashing singer/songwriter Stewart Pillow.
In June 2009, I moved to Brooklyn. This is the kitchen in my Park Slope brownstone.
and I worked in 2009 and 2010 as the Director of Community for PopTech, an amazing group of people that accelerates social good.
I moved to Miami in April 2008 to help the Knight Foundation (they fund journalism and community projects) launch Knight Pulse, a community site about the future of news and information, in November 2008. I did Skype interviews with information activists for Pulse, sometimes with hacker/journalists like Brian Boyer:
I also launched an incubator site, called the Garage in summer 2008, for the Knight News Challenge and spoke about the site on the foundation’s behalf (sometimes about videoblogging) many times in Fall 2008:
Before Miami, I lived in D.C. and worked at PBS headquarters helping to launch PBS Engage, an effort to let PBS fans respond to and impact programming, as well as managing social media strategy for twenty shows (including Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Nature, Austin City Limits, art21, e2, Roadtrip Nation, Independent Lens, and POV).
Before D.C., I lived in Charlottesville, Virginia, the place to revel in local food, and in teaching and researching (I still am) niche online networks of food, shelter, and local currency. I worked on humanities computing projects.
In 2004, while in Virginia, I defended a thesis on 19th C print and photographic treatment of children adopted through and escaping from orphan trains–their identity, rights, and marginalization through media: displacing_out (right-click and “save as” to download, 1414KB Flash file)
Many of my (hundreds of) former students have gone on to careers in literature, publishing, food, skateboarding, and online software. This is because we made earth sandwiches for Ze Frank. But mostly because they are awesome (see below).
