Quiet Babylon is run by Tim Maly.

I live in Canada, mostly in Toronto. My work has appeared in The Atlantic, Fast Co. Design, McSweeney’s, East of the Web, Icon, and Volume Magazine. You should follow me on Twitter @doingitwrong and you can email me at tim@quietbabylon.com. I’d love to hear from you.

I enjoy giving talks about our weird future. Please contact me if you are interested in having me speak.

Upcoming appearances

• Upper Toronto Idea Jam at ThingTank labs, Dec 14

Other work

I’m the project coordinator for Upper Toronto. I’m running an independent design studio called Border Town with Emily Horne. I’m a irregular contributor to The Atlantic’s Tech Channel. I’ve worked on education using virtual worlds with Pleiades and on art with Public Recordings, a collaborative dance company. I’m one of the co-founders of Capybara Games. Ryan North and I created Project Wonderful (he did all the heavy lifting).

Sites

In case you ended up here other than through the site, you can find my work at quietbabylon.com, and a mood book at mini.quietbabylon.com. In September 2010, I curated 50 Posts About Cyborgs. I feel very strongly that you should unlink your feeds. I’m irregulary documenting The RegionNET.

Coverage

50 Posts about Cyborgs was a project undertaken in September 2010 to celebrate the 50^th anniversary of the coining of the term. It received a good deal of coverage including articles on io9 and in The Guardian along with interviews in Current Intelligence and on CBC’s Spark. I was delighted to read analysis by Geoff Manaugh on BLDGBLOG, Bruce Sterling on Beyond the Beyond for Wired, and Robin Sloan on Snarkmarket.

Border Town was covered by The Toronto Standard and we got a back page spread in The National Post (sadly, they didn’t put the images online).

Upper Toronto has been covered by io9 and The Grid. We had a lovely feature article in The Varsity.

Past appearances

• Upper Toronto imagines the future at ELN Studio 2011, Dec.
• An interview about Hypnotizing Computers on CBC’s Spark Nov 25.
• A talk about using game-like elements in publishing for BookNet Canada’s Code Meet Print.
• 2011
• Upper Toronto Draws on Maps, Nov 10.
• An Upper Toronto Consultation at the Fairview Public Library, Oct 30.
• A panel discussion about collaboration at Homework: Infrastructures & Collaboration in Social Practices, Oct 21.
• An Upper Toronto Consultation at the North York Public Library, Oct 4.
• The Border Town opening reception in Detroit on Sept 21.
• A live brainstorming tent talk on the subject of What is to be done with Lower Toronto? at the Fringe Festival, July 15.
• A performance of Upper Toronto at the Rhubarb Festival, Feb 27.
• BLDG BLOG hosted Landscape Futures Super Workshop in L.A.
• 2010
• CBC’s Spark, Episode 120: A segment about the 50^th anniversary of ‘cyborg’. The unedited interview is online too.
• Ignite Toronto: 50 Years of “Cyborg”. The video is online.
• SLCC 2010: a talk about Literate Games.
• BookcampTO 2010: a talk about Literate Games.
• Columbia University GSAPP: round table on Glacier/Island/Storm.