As artists we learned to invent. As researchers we learned a process. As a company we are learning how to change our world.

We began working collaboratively in the late 90’s as an art group hacking, distorting, and inventing technology that we hoped would help improve communication systems and create more open, fluid discourse. As an art group we learned to work across multiple disciplines, often combining artists with technologists, designers, or writers. We learned to collaborate and to accomplish projects with scant resources and huge ambitions.

In 2003 we accepted an artist residency at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, a Carnegie Mellon University research center for artists and technologists housed in the College of Fine Arts, to develop our concept for a collaborative online mapping platform called Maphub.

In the fall of 2006, after working for 3 years using our Maphub tools to create prototype projects for community and advocacy groups, an artist, a designer, and a technologist started DeepLocal. The goal was and continues to be to create lasting change.