To understand each other, we need to understand what shapes us.

People rarely realize they live inside a bubble, and even more rarely do they step inside another one. Media Diet makes that encounter possible without defensiveness or shame.

It builds media literacy through lived experience rather than charts or fact-checks. Visitors leave with a clearer sense of how meaning is constructed in different media ecosystems and where common ground still exists.

Make sure to follow along at ourmediadiet.com and @ourmediadiet (IG)

Amar Bakshi is an artist whose work explores connection across distance, difference, and media. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at the MIT Center for Constructive Communication. He is the founder of Shared_Studios, a social impact company that connects strangers across distance and difference through curated conversations in life-size video environments called Portals. 

Heidi Boisvert is an interdisciplinary artist, experience designer, creative technologist, and academic researcher who interrogates the neurobiological and socio-cultural effects of media and technology. Simply put, she studies the role of the body, the senses, and emotion in human perception and social change. She founded and serves as the Creative Director of futurePerfect Lab, a think-do tank that harnesses the power of pop culture, emerging technology and neuroscience to ignite social change. She also architects expanded reality and transmedia storytelling experiences, and devises large-scale networked dance and theatre using biocreative technology.