Director of City as Platform/XRML Amsterdam; Harvard University Faculty Fellow at Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Boston, Amsterdam)

Dr. Beth Coleman's work focuses on the role of human agency in the context of media and data engagement, she looks at the intersection of the public, the civic, and the poetic.

She is the Director of City as Platform/XRML, Amsterdam, and is currently a Harvard University Faculty Fellow at Berkman Center for Internet and Society and a visiting Professor at the Institute of Network Cultures, Hogeschool van Amsterdam.

From 2005-2011, Coleman has been a Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the primary investigator of the Pervasive Media research and design lab.

As a visual artist and media designer, Coleman has a long history of international exhibitions in venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, P.S.1/MoMA, Musée D'art Moderne Paris, and the Waag Society Amsterdam. She is also the cofounder of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy, a formative x-media performance platform founded in 1994. Her text, audio, and digital artifacts have been published widely. Coleman's book Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation (MIT Press) looks at the mobile, real-time, post-web world we are building.