Migration Mapping is a living digital archive, resource guide, and research hub on media and migration. It seeks to identify, describe, and track the various mediated forms through which we make sense of migration as human practice.
Migration Mapping is the foundational project of the Media+Migration Lab (M2Lab), an experimental platform for exploring and creating the prismatic spaces, hues, and textures of media and migration. The M2Lab is housed in the MA in Media Studies program at The New School, New York.
One of the ways we can make AI legible is to trace the largely unseen life cycle of a tech object, from the mine to the dump. Physical materials make their way around the globe, are refined, combined, and eventually disposed of and separated, passing through many hands along the way. For example, e-waste, the …
Atlas of AI author Kate Crawford maintains an ongoing data visualization piece with artist Vladan Joler called Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500. Crawford and Joler map the evolutions of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power over the centuries and across the globe, contextualizing the current technological moment in which …
During my commutes, I’ve noticed advertisements for AI products or that use AI imagery on subway cars, in transfer tunnels, and in stations. I’ve made a practice of pausing to take photos of them. What I'm really looking for is not just the ads themselves but where people have interacted with them somehow using graffiti, …
One of Big Tech's most frustrating and dangerous habits is portraying artificial intelligence as abstract and immaterial, beyond the grasp of those outside of the tech industry. The imagery associated with AI clearly demonstrates this: translucent blue disembodied robots and decontextualized circuitry. This is an intentional strategy to distract us from the real world costs …
The Datasets serve as the archive of the site: migration-related content is here classified according to type of media they relate to or represent. These serve as the ‘raw data’ on which we draw to arrive at key concepts constituting our mental maps about the migrant/emigrant/immigrant.
The Concepts you see below are keywords that give meaning to the content we have collected: themes that recur in discussions of migration. Click each Concept below for more details.
