David Evan Harris: "Global Lives Project" | Talks at Google

The Global Lives Project is a video library of life experience around the world, featuring more than 500 hours of footage of the daily life of 20 people from 17 countries.
The Global Lives Project is a three-time National Endowment for the Arts award recipient, and has been exhibited and screened at dozens of venues worldwide including the Smithsonian, United Nations University and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
About the Artist and Founder
David Evan Harris
Executive Director and Founder, Global Lives Project
Research Director, Institute for the Future
Professional Faculty, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
David Evan Harris is a sociologist, artist and curator. In 2004, he founded the Global Lives Project, a video library of life experience around the world produced by thousands of collaborating filmmakers, photographers and translators. The Global Lives Project has been screened and exhibited as a video installation in museums, galleries, public spaces and schools around the world, including at the Smithsonian, United Nations University, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA).
At the Institute for the Future (IFTF), David leads research on the future of media, governance, philanthropy and social movements. In 2014, he became curator of the Future Gallery, an exhibit space in downtown Palo Alto featuring the work of artists from around the world whose work challenges viewers to think critically about the future. David joined IFTF in 2008.
About the Host
Steve Grove leads a team at Google called the News Lab, focused on empowering innovation at the intersection of media and technology. They tackle this in three ways: through developing Google's tools for newsrooms around the world; by expanding Google's data journalism efforts through Google Trends, and through a series of programs that tackle the biggest opportunities facing media today.