PROJECT ECHO IS A PUBLIC PARTICIPATORY ART PROJECT WHERE the REAL AND PROFOUND PERSONAL CONCERNS OF THE EVERYDAY MEET THE FABRICATION OF THE FAKE. THIS PROJECT JUXTAPOSES THOUGHTS in FLEETING MOMENTS AND TWEETS OF DISINFORMATION IN ONE PLACE, WHERE FLASHES OF EPHEMERALITY OFFER A GLIMPSE INTO THE DEEPER LAYERS OF CULTURE. BOTH are ARTIFACTS OF THIS TRANSITIONAL MOMENT IN HISTORY. ONE OFFERS A COLLECTIVE SHARED HUMANITY AND RESILIENCy, THE OTHER CHALLENGES A VIRTUE THAT WE HAVE KNOWN FOR AS LONG AS WE HAVE EXISTED - TELLING THE TRUTH!  
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​YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE!
In the box below, Send us your thoughts in fleeting moments. if chosen, we will put it on a billboard or a street poster. You will be notified of this if an email address is entered at the time of submission. 

    What is your personal concerns of the everyday? What’s on your mind that speaks to what is true to you as an individual regardless of political party preferences. 
Acknowledgments:
Many grants, fellowships, and workshop awards have enabled the development of the project. These awards include the UC Davis Humanities Institute (DHI) Faculty Research Fellowship and the Research Cluster Grant, the Hellman Family Foundation Fellows Fund, and two UC Davis Academic Senate Small Grants. The earlier stages of the development of the project benefited from a project affiliation agreement with the UC Davis Data Science Initiative (DSI), and an industry relationship with Kineviz, Inc. Additionally, a series of University of California Humanities Research Institute's (UCHRI) workshop awards also helped to establish the much-needed foundations for the project. ​​I am immensely grateful for this support and for my colleagues who came on this journey with me to offer encouragement and support through their deep expertise. 

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