Picture Projects

Founded in 1995, Brooklyn based Picture Projects, has gained an international reputation for producing high-profile new media projects that primarily focus on telling complex stories from multiple perspectives. Over the past fifteen years, the studio has become well known for the use of interactive narrative in both commercial and documentary work. Picture Projects produces virtual museums, interactive installations and exhibitions for cultural institutions such as The Women’s Museum in Dallas, TX, The American Museum of Natural History and The Tenement Museum both in New York City, The Brooklyn Historical Society and Harvard University's Schlesinger Library, as well as clients such as IBM, National Voting Rights Institute and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.

In our current projects, we continue to weave new technologies with smart design into an ongoing exploration of our history and social fabric through first-person stories, dynamic data and participatory storytelling. Our projects include:

  • The Beth Sholom Visitor Center in Elkins Park, PA, the only Synagogue designed by Frank Lloyd Wright;

  • The interactive exhibition "In Our Own Words" at the Brooklyn Historical Society;

  • 360degrees.org - Perspectives on the U.S. Criminal Justice System;

  • 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 with 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;

  • A website for the architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates: VSBA and

  • The Tenement Museum's Virtual Tour.

ONLINE DOCUMENTARIES
The studio's documentaries include 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 five 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 received 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.

DIRECTOR
Alison Cornyn is an interdisciplinary artist 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. Cornyn is an adjunct assistant professor at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. 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. Her work has been supported by grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, NPR, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Council on the Humanities, New York Foundation for the Arts, Creative Capital and others.

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Picture Projects
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Brooklyn, NY 11217
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