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A tall and narrow wooden tv cabinet against the wall, with a tape player and music and vhs tapes.
A yellow and blue southwestern style room, with a bright patterned native american rug and desert paintings
Looking down the center a New York subway car, where an array of people sit talking and reading their phones
A woman reads a newspaper in a thick leather armchair in a cafe with walls covered in books.
A modern apartment living room where a man sits, facing away from us, watching his computer screen
A living room with a wall of bookshelves and a television showing Joe Exotic, and the feet of someone on a couch watching the tv.
Evening in a cozy living room with nicknacs and lamps, with plush couches and chairs around a lit up television
A retro sitting room with beige and brown wallpaper, bamboo furniture and a box television
A modern small apartment kitchen with bright white tile floors and hanging orange lamps
A grainy old photo of a living room with a tv and a yellow rocking chair, where a black cat is curled up.
The tv room in a room paneled western house, with a couch, a rocking chair, and a television
A big room in a large ranch house, where a circle of black leather couches faces the television

Step Inside Americas Media Landscape

Every night, in millions of kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms across America, different versions of the same story play out.

Media Diet is an immersive documentary project that rebuilds those rooms — and lets you walk through them.

We live in parallel realities.

Our media habits shape what we see, what we fear, and what we believe is true. But none of us experience the world alone — we experience it through the screens around us.

A tall and narrow wooden tv cabinet against the wall, with a tape player and music and vhs tapes.
A yellow and blue southwestern style room, with a bright patterned native american rug and desert paintings
A modern apartment living room where a man sits, facing away from us, watching his computer screen
A living room with a wall of bookshelves and a television showing Joe Exotic, and the feet of someone on a couch watching the tv.
A modern small apartment kitchen with bright white tile floors and hanging orange lamps
Evening in a cozy living room with nicknacs and lamps, with plush couches and chairs around a lit up television
A retro sitting room with beige and brown wallpaper, bamboo furniture and a box television
Looking down the center a New York subway car, where an array of people sit talking and reading their phones
A woman reads a newspaper in a thick leather armchair in a cafe with walls covered in books.
A grainy old photo of a living room with a tv and a yellow rocking chair, where a black cat is curled up.
The tv room in a room paneled western house, with a couch, a rocking chair, and a television
A big room in a large ranch house, where a circle of black leather couches faces the television

The Experience

Imagine walking from one American living room to another… Each one playing the same topic — immigration, climate, democracy — but through a completely different media lens. What you see in each space is familiar, but the meaning changes room to room.

Media Diet lets you inhabit these bubbles directly.

Why We're Building This

An image of a women lying in a dark bedroom looking at her phone is distorted as if behind wavy glass panels.

To understand each other, we need to understand what shapes us.

This project exposes the textures, rhythms, and emotional worlds behind our information diets.

It helps audiences see how realities diverge and where they still overlap. We’re launching the first installation in 2026, with a traveling version that can be hosted by museums, universities, and communities across the country.