Information helps us make better decisions about the things we're already involved in, and it can inspire us to do more--by showing us what others have done in the past, or what needs to be done in the future. Information can also make us feel more connected with our world at large, and show us what we have in common with individuals around us. This leads to a sense of community.
A sense of community is important because people who feel connected help each other out on an individual level, and band together to make their neighborhoods more livable on a grassroots level. They participate in the political process, and they take part in movements such as environmentalism and the push for social justice. If that's not enough, studies show that a sense of belonging just plain makes us happier people.
Through my independent projects, my work as a librarian, and my involvement in various community organizations, I try to spread information, and help foster a sense of community where I live.
affiliations
Brookline Public Library Artist in Residence program. Advisory committee member (2015 to present).
Rise Industries arts group. Member (2006 to present).
Getting by in Boston. Cofounder and organizer (2014-2016).
Somerville Arts Council. Board member (2011-2016). Board chair (2012-2016).
People's Tours. Founding member (2012-2014).
Space Equals Work. Founding member (2013-2016).
Boston Typewriter Orchestra. Founder. Member (2004-2006).
Current
Brookline Public Library Artist in Residence program. Advisory committee member (2015 to present).
Rise Industries arts group. Member (2006 to present).
Past
Getting by in Boston. Cofounder and organizer (2014-2016).
Somerville Arts Council. Board member (2011-2016). Board chair (2012-2016).
People's Tours. Founding member (2012-2014).
Space Equals Work. Founding member (2013-2016).
Boston Typewriter Orchestra. Founder. Member (2004-2006).
selected publications and press coverage
(for things I've written or edited, see "work & projects")
Alessandro Ludovico. Post-digital print: the mutation of publishing since 1894. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Onomatopee. 2012.
Andrew Murphie, Alessandro Ludovico, Janeke Adema and Gary Hall. Circulacion y resonancia: publicos fantasma. Mexico City: Taller De Ediciones Economicas. 2016.
Emanuele De Donno, editor. Public computing: an offline manual on art domain. Italy: Via Industriae. 2014.
Nicholas Ganz. Street Messages. Sweden: Dokument Press. 2015.
Richard Polt. The typewriter revolution: a typist's companion for the 21st century. Woodstock VT: Countryman Press. 2015.
Robert Klanten, Adeline Mollard, Matthias Hubner and Sonja Commentz, editors. Behind the zines: the self-publishing culture. Berlin: Gestalten Press. April 2011.
Boston Public Radio. Boston MA: WGBH. April 15, 2013.
The Callie Crossley Show. Boston MA: WGBH. June 13, 2011.
Chris Berthelsen. Being an artist and parent in a city of riches. Aukland, New Zealand. Jan. 2016.
Curiosity Desk. When Cambridge Was A Counterculture Hotbed. Boston MA: WGBH. Sept. 4, 2019.
Greater Somerville talk show, hosted by KyAnn Anderson. Somerville MA: Somerville Cable Access Television. Aired Nov. 12, 2013.
Kids Like You & Me. Boston MA. Aug. 5, 2021.
Ossigeno! Bologna, Italy: Radio Metropolitana. May 27, 2011.
Somerville Art Matters talk show, hosted by Julia Fairclough. Somerville MA: Somerville Cable Access Television. Aired twice a week through the month of June 2009.
Spark talk show, hosted by Nora Young. Toronto, Canada: Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Aired April 22 and 25, 2009. Toronto, Canada.
Poet to poet/writer to writer talk show, hosted by Doug Holder. Somerville MA: Somerville Cable Access Television. Aired March 3, 2009.
Two Hotheads: Where Activism Happens talk show. Boston MA: Unregular Radio. Jan. 12, 2013.
Aaron Dentel-Post. "Artist bets on Somerville with Stock Exchange." Somerville MA: Somerville Scout. May 15, 2012.
Andrea Read. Somerville Artist of the Month: Tim Devin. Somerville MA: Somerville Arts Council, 2022.
Andrew Firestone. "Locals see the future." Somerville MA: The Somerville News. February 10, 2011.
Andrew McNutt. "On the Potential of Zines as a Medium for Visualization." Aug. 2021.
Andrew Price. "Artist posts neighborhood surveys and infographics on the streets of Boston." San Francisco CA: GOOD Magazine. May 17, 2011.
Andrew Vande Moere. "Broadsides: showing infographics...in the street." Flanders, Belgium: Information Aesthetics. May 23, 2011.
Cara Giaimo. Mapping the Lost Countercultural Hotspots of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Brooklyn NY: Atlas Obscura. April 24, 2018.
Chris Berthelsen. "Being an artist and parent in a city of riches." Aukland, New Zealand. Jan. 2016.
Chris Orchard. "Artist starts Somerville Stock Exchange to promote good deeds." Somerville MA: Somerville Patch. May 2, 2012.
Chris Orchard. "The Somerville Stock Exchange, a year in the making, comes to an end." Somerville MA: Somerville Patch. April 2, 2013.
Dan Gould. "I left this here for you to read." New York NY: PSFK. December 10, 2008.
Edmond Caldwell. "'How We Get By' at Lesley University." Boston MA: Big Red & Shiny. June 19, 2014.
Elyse Andrews. "Good deeds add up in Somerville stock exchange." Somerville MA: The Somerville Beat. April 1, 2013.
Emily Arkin. "2019 year ender: Listicle of listicles with Emily Arkin." Boston: Boston Hassle, Jan. 8. 2020.
Emily Luce. "Change maker: Tim Devin." Lethbridge, Canada: Complex Social Change. April 24, 2014
J. Marechal. "The fine art of investing." Cambridge MA: Spare Change News. October 19, 2012.
Jacqueline Houton. "Zones for zines." Boston MA: The Improper Bostonian. Aug. 4, 2017.
Janelle Nanos. "Somerville street art." Boston MA: Boston Magazine. May 24, 2011.
Jarret Bencks. "City stock exchange closes today." Boston MA: The Boston Globe. March 31, 2013.
Julia Fairclough. "Tell us your vision for the future of Somerville: community art project shares points of view." Somerville MA: The Somerville News. May 20, 2009.
Jackie Wong. "'Lost' magazine meant to be found by Vancouverites." Vancouver, BC: The West Ender: Vancouver's urban weekly. January 14, 2009.
Joshua Rothman. "Somerville's mystery posterer revealed." Boston MA: The Boston Globe. May 23, 2011.
Julia Taliesin. "Tour offers counterculture history on every corner." Somerville MA: The Somerville Journal. November 7, 2018. Later reprinted as "Cambridge, Somerville tour offers counterculture history on every corner," in The Cambridge Chronicle, Nov. 13, 2018.
Kenton Shimozaki. "Mapping utopia: the counterculture of Inman Square." Cambridge: Harvard Crimson. Sept. 14, 2107.
Marc Levy. "Performing a temp job that is anything but routine." Cambridge MA: Cambridge Day. June 29, 2010.
Marc Levy. "Visit countercultural Inman Square of '70s walking with 'Mapping Out Utopia' author." Cambridge: Cambridge Day. Sept. 6, 2017.
Marcia Dick. "This week's 'Greater Somerville:' What's developing." Boston.com. Nov. 14, 2013.
Matt Byrne. "Somerville artist's fliers ask big questions of total strangers." Boston MA: Boston Globe. May 24, 2011.
Matteo Bittanti. Urbano troppo urbano: quattro modi di visualizzare le citta." Milan, Italy: Wired.it. May 25, 2011.
Matthew Kuhlman. "Time body space objects 2." Boston MA: Big Red & Shiny. October 2012.
Meghann Ackerman. "Predictions for Somerville's future mostly bright." Somerville MA: Somerville Journal. February 26, 2010.
Nate Homan. "Artist explores the futuristic history of Somerville." Somerville MA: Somerville Journal. Febrary 11, 2011.
Neil Horsky. "Stating the state of the state of the arts: an interview with Tim Devin." Boston: The Boston Compass, no. 122. April 2020.
Reena Karasin. "Mapping out utopia: how our legacy of counterculture lives on." Cambridge MA: Scout Cambridge, no. 36 (Jan. 14 - March 10, 2019).
Samantha Michaels. "Collective brush strokes: the community as the canvas: can art change the world?" Washington DC: The State of the Reunion. June 8, 2011.
Sebastian Campion. "Boston street surveys, infographics and poems." Copenhagen, Denmark: Guerrilla Innovation. May 17, 2011.
Sebastian Campion. "I left this here for you to read." Copenhagen, Denmark: Guerrilla Innovation. November 17, 2008.
"The Somerville Stock Exchange community art project." Somerville MA: The Somerville News. March 28, 2013.
"Street artist? Demographer? Yes." Boston MA: Boston Egotist. May 2011.
"Superbowl alternatives." Boston MA: Boston Magazine. Feb. 2011.
Susan Johnston. "Trading for good: Somerville Stock Exchange shares deeds that pay it forward." Boston MA: Boston Globe. May 31, 2012.
Thom Fountain. "Doing neighborhoods right." Eau Claire WI: Volume One. Sept 21, 2014.
Vito Campanelli. "I left this here for you to read: networked distribution magazine." Rome, Italy: Neural: new media art, electronic music, hacktivism. Issue 32 (Spring 2009).
Wang Hongmiao. "Somerville 'community stocks game'". Jinan, China: Jing ji xue jia cha zuo : jing hua ben (Teahouse for economists). 2014, issue no. 1.
Selected books
Alessandro Ludovico. Post-digital print: the mutation of publishing since 1894. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Onomatopee. 2012.
Andrew Murphie, Alessandro Ludovico, Janeke Adema and Gary Hall. Circulacion y resonancia: publicos fantasma. Mexico City: Taller De Ediciones Economicas. 2016.
Emanuele De Donno, editor. Public computing: an offline manual on art domain. Italy: Via Industriae. 2014.
Nicholas Ganz. Street Messages. Sweden: Dokument Press. 2015.
Richard Polt. The typewriter revolution: a typist's companion for the 21st century. Woodstock VT: Countryman Press. 2015.
Robert Klanten, Adeline Mollard, Matthias Hubner and Sonja Commentz, editors. Behind the zines: the self-publishing culture. Berlin: Gestalten Press. April 2011.
Selected t.v. / radio / podcasts
Boston Public Radio. Boston MA: WGBH. April 15, 2013.
The Callie Crossley Show. Boston MA: WGBH. June 13, 2011.
Chris Berthelsen. Being an artist and parent in a city of riches. Aukland, New Zealand. Jan. 2016.
Curiosity Desk. When Cambridge Was A Counterculture Hotbed. Boston MA: WGBH. Sept. 4, 2019.
Greater Somerville talk show, hosted by KyAnn Anderson. Somerville MA: Somerville Cable Access Television. Aired Nov. 12, 2013.
Kids Like You & Me. Boston MA. Aug. 5, 2021.
Ossigeno! Bologna, Italy: Radio Metropolitana. May 27, 2011.
Somerville Art Matters talk show, hosted by Julia Fairclough. Somerville MA: Somerville Cable Access Television. Aired twice a week through the month of June 2009.
Spark talk show, hosted by Nora Young. Toronto, Canada: Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Aired April 22 and 25, 2009. Toronto, Canada.
Poet to poet/writer to writer talk show, hosted by Doug Holder. Somerville MA: Somerville Cable Access Television. Aired March 3, 2009.
Two Hotheads: Where Activism Happens talk show. Boston MA: Unregular Radio. Jan. 12, 2013.
Selected newspapers, magazines & news websites
Aaron Dentel-Post. "Artist bets on Somerville with Stock Exchange." Somerville MA: Somerville Scout. May 15, 2012.
Andrea Read. Somerville Artist of the Month: Tim Devin. Somerville MA: Somerville Arts Council, 2022.
Andrew Firestone. "Locals see the future." Somerville MA: The Somerville News. February 10, 2011.
Andrew McNutt. "On the Potential of Zines as a Medium for Visualization." Aug. 2021.
Andrew Price. "Artist posts neighborhood surveys and infographics on the streets of Boston." San Francisco CA: GOOD Magazine. May 17, 2011.
Andrew Vande Moere. "Broadsides: showing infographics...in the street." Flanders, Belgium: Information Aesthetics. May 23, 2011.
Cara Giaimo. Mapping the Lost Countercultural Hotspots of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Brooklyn NY: Atlas Obscura. April 24, 2018.
Chris Berthelsen. "Being an artist and parent in a city of riches." Aukland, New Zealand. Jan. 2016.
Chris Orchard. "Artist starts Somerville Stock Exchange to promote good deeds." Somerville MA: Somerville Patch. May 2, 2012.
Chris Orchard. "The Somerville Stock Exchange, a year in the making, comes to an end." Somerville MA: Somerville Patch. April 2, 2013.
Dan Gould. "I left this here for you to read." New York NY: PSFK. December 10, 2008.
Edmond Caldwell. "'How We Get By' at Lesley University." Boston MA: Big Red & Shiny. June 19, 2014.
Elyse Andrews. "Good deeds add up in Somerville stock exchange." Somerville MA: The Somerville Beat. April 1, 2013.
Emily Arkin. "2019 year ender: Listicle of listicles with Emily Arkin." Boston: Boston Hassle, Jan. 8. 2020.
Emily Luce. "Change maker: Tim Devin." Lethbridge, Canada: Complex Social Change. April 24, 2014
J. Marechal. "The fine art of investing." Cambridge MA: Spare Change News. October 19, 2012.
Jacqueline Houton. "Zones for zines." Boston MA: The Improper Bostonian. Aug. 4, 2017.
Janelle Nanos. "Somerville street art." Boston MA: Boston Magazine. May 24, 2011.
Jarret Bencks. "City stock exchange closes today." Boston MA: The Boston Globe. March 31, 2013.
Julia Fairclough. "Tell us your vision for the future of Somerville: community art project shares points of view." Somerville MA: The Somerville News. May 20, 2009.
Jackie Wong. "'Lost' magazine meant to be found by Vancouverites." Vancouver, BC: The West Ender: Vancouver's urban weekly. January 14, 2009.
Joshua Rothman. "Somerville's mystery posterer revealed." Boston MA: The Boston Globe. May 23, 2011.
Julia Taliesin. "Tour offers counterculture history on every corner." Somerville MA: The Somerville Journal. November 7, 2018. Later reprinted as "Cambridge, Somerville tour offers counterculture history on every corner," in The Cambridge Chronicle, Nov. 13, 2018.
Kenton Shimozaki. "Mapping utopia: the counterculture of Inman Square." Cambridge: Harvard Crimson. Sept. 14, 2107.
Marc Levy. "Performing a temp job that is anything but routine." Cambridge MA: Cambridge Day. June 29, 2010.
Marc Levy. "Visit countercultural Inman Square of '70s walking with 'Mapping Out Utopia' author." Cambridge: Cambridge Day. Sept. 6, 2017.
Marcia Dick. "This week's 'Greater Somerville:' What's developing." Boston.com. Nov. 14, 2013.
Matt Byrne. "Somerville artist's fliers ask big questions of total strangers." Boston MA: Boston Globe. May 24, 2011.
Matteo Bittanti. Urbano troppo urbano: quattro modi di visualizzare le citta." Milan, Italy: Wired.it. May 25, 2011.
Matthew Kuhlman. "Time body space objects 2." Boston MA: Big Red & Shiny. October 2012.
Meghann Ackerman. "Predictions for Somerville's future mostly bright." Somerville MA: Somerville Journal. February 26, 2010.
Nate Homan. "Artist explores the futuristic history of Somerville." Somerville MA: Somerville Journal. Febrary 11, 2011.
Neil Horsky. "Stating the state of the state of the arts: an interview with Tim Devin." Boston: The Boston Compass, no. 122. April 2020.
Reena Karasin. "Mapping out utopia: how our legacy of counterculture lives on." Cambridge MA: Scout Cambridge, no. 36 (Jan. 14 - March 10, 2019).
Samantha Michaels. "Collective brush strokes: the community as the canvas: can art change the world?" Washington DC: The State of the Reunion. June 8, 2011.
Sebastian Campion. "Boston street surveys, infographics and poems." Copenhagen, Denmark: Guerrilla Innovation. May 17, 2011.
Sebastian Campion. "I left this here for you to read." Copenhagen, Denmark: Guerrilla Innovation. November 17, 2008.
"The Somerville Stock Exchange community art project." Somerville MA: The Somerville News. March 28, 2013.
"Street artist? Demographer? Yes." Boston MA: Boston Egotist. May 2011.
"Superbowl alternatives." Boston MA: Boston Magazine. Feb. 2011.
Susan Johnston. "Trading for good: Somerville Stock Exchange shares deeds that pay it forward." Boston MA: Boston Globe. May 31, 2012.
Thom Fountain. "Doing neighborhoods right." Eau Claire WI: Volume One. Sept 21, 2014.
Vito Campanelli. "I left this here for you to read: networked distribution magazine." Rome, Italy: Neural: new media art, electronic music, hacktivism. Issue 32 (Spring 2009).
Wang Hongmiao. "Somerville 'community stocks game'". Jinan, China: Jing ji xue jia cha zuo : jing hua ben (Teahouse for economists). 2014, issue no. 1.
selected shows
"Repair manuals and cosmic sounds: Self-publishing to heal the entire universe." Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). Barcelona, Spain. November 2021 - May 2022.
"Recruiting for Utopia: Print and The Imagination." Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA. June 18, 2020 to March 21, 2021.
"ENGAGED EDITIONS: Creative Advocacy in Print." Booklyn, Brooklyn NY. November 17, 2018 - January 11, 2019.
"AMPLIFY + MULTIPLY: Recent Printed Activist Ephemera." IDEA Space, Colorado College. Colorado Springs CO. March 27 - April 17, 2017.
"Wall to Wall: Art Builds Communities." Nave Gallery, Somerville MA. Sept. 24 - Oct. 30, 2016.
"Downward spiral: zines today." Distillery Gallery. Boston MA. April 25 - June 4, 2016.
"It narratives: the movement of objects as information." Franklin Street Works. Stamford CT. Sept 6 - Nov. 9, 2014.
"Fluxjob." Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Minneapolis, MN. February 7 - July 6, 2014.
"The artist's PC." (Part of the European Union's Valorization of Innovative Technologies for Ageing in Europe conference.) Le Botanique Centre Culturel de la Federation Wallonie. Brussels, Belgium. January 2014.
"In public space we trust: Spettacolo collttivo per la costruzione di una nuova citta." Castello di Chiaramonte. Favara, Italy. June 2013 - March 2014.
"Time Body Space Objects 2." Anthony Greaney Gallery. Boston MA. October 2012.
"Rum Riot Press." Space Gallery. Portland ME. July/August 2012.
"Rise Industries." Institute of Cultural Inquiry. Los Angeles CA. June 2011.
"The history of Somerville, 2010-2100." Nave Gallery. Somerville MA. February 2011. (Solo show)
"The everyday exchange." Meme Gallery. Cambridge MA. June/July 2010. (Solo show)
"Thanks for sharing!" D21 Gallery. Leipzig, Germany. May 2010.
"Space is the place." (Part of the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2009.) National College of Art and Design. Dublin, Ireland. August 2009.
"Fluxhibition." University of Texas. Arlington TX. July 2009.
Selected art and urbanist shows
"Repair manuals and cosmic sounds: Self-publishing to heal the entire universe." Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). Barcelona, Spain. November 2021 - May 2022.
"Recruiting for Utopia: Print and The Imagination." Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA. June 18, 2020 to March 21, 2021.
"ENGAGED EDITIONS: Creative Advocacy in Print." Booklyn, Brooklyn NY. November 17, 2018 - January 11, 2019.
"AMPLIFY + MULTIPLY: Recent Printed Activist Ephemera." IDEA Space, Colorado College. Colorado Springs CO. March 27 - April 17, 2017.
"Wall to Wall: Art Builds Communities." Nave Gallery, Somerville MA. Sept. 24 - Oct. 30, 2016.
"Downward spiral: zines today." Distillery Gallery. Boston MA. April 25 - June 4, 2016.
"It narratives: the movement of objects as information." Franklin Street Works. Stamford CT. Sept 6 - Nov. 9, 2014.
"Fluxjob." Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Minneapolis, MN. February 7 - July 6, 2014.
"The artist's PC." (Part of the European Union's Valorization of Innovative Technologies for Ageing in Europe conference.) Le Botanique Centre Culturel de la Federation Wallonie. Brussels, Belgium. January 2014.
"In public space we trust: Spettacolo collttivo per la costruzione di una nuova citta." Castello di Chiaramonte. Favara, Italy. June 2013 - March 2014.
"Time Body Space Objects 2." Anthony Greaney Gallery. Boston MA. October 2012.
"Rum Riot Press." Space Gallery. Portland ME. July/August 2012.
"Rise Industries." Institute of Cultural Inquiry. Los Angeles CA. June 2011.
"The history of Somerville, 2010-2100." Nave Gallery. Somerville MA. February 2011. (Solo show)
"The everyday exchange." Meme Gallery. Cambridge MA. June/July 2010. (Solo show)
"Thanks for sharing!" D21 Gallery. Leipzig, Germany. May 2010.
"Space is the place." (Part of the International Symposium on Electronic Art 2009.) National College of Art and Design. Dublin, Ireland. August 2009.
"Fluxhibition." University of Texas. Arlington TX. July 2009.