Staging Space Assignments

November 6th, 2009

The Japanese Room has been converted to Staging and the hallway areas will be converted for Staging on Monday.

If you were assigned space for Staging, you can refer to the help page here http://itp.nyu.edu/help/Facilities/Staging for a look at where your project is located (layout by project name) or click on the link below.

FALL 2009 STAGING ASSIGNMENTS

Assigned spaces can be worked in until the last day of classes Assigned spaces must be kept neat, organized and safe No hoarding Shop tools The Documentation Station and 2 Sewing Stations should be kept clear! No materials may be stored in the J-Room unless you have arranged for an assigned spot - rob.ryan@nyu.edu Label all materials being kept on the floor with florescent gaffers tape (available in the shop) Email rob.ryan@nyu.edu if you want one of the unassigned spaces - a current map is pictured below and will be updated as needed Staging Map ..pdf

ITP | Rob Ryan Technical Operations Manager | Technical Producer

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Japanese Room

November 6th, 2009

As per the email sent yesterday confirming the transition of the Japanese Room to staging space, all materials, projects and stuff was pulled out of the room and placed on the center lounge tables. You have until tomorrow to claim these items or you risk having them recycled or discarded.

The condition that the Japanese Room was left in was embarrassing and atrocious. It seems that Midterms resulted in the room being treated as a dump. Hardly anything was labeled, there were abandoned tools from the shop, half built kiosk stands, discarded food and wasted components all over the place. Not to mention the trash just strewn about the room.

Moving forward there will be a concerted effort to take the consideration of the community into account.

Thanks,

Rob

ITP | Rob Ryan Technical Operations Manager | Technical Producer

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Staging Transition

November 5th, 2009

A good deal of the hallway, middle lounge and Japanese Room spaces will be transitioning to accommodate staging beginning tomorrow, Friday November 6th.

There are currently some projects that have been setup in the J-Room — if you didn’t apply for staging space, you need to break them down by tomorrow afternoon. This space is being coordinated through submissions to the projects database. All additional needs for space will be evaluated after those who applied for space have been setup.

Thank you,

Rob

ITP | Rob Ryan Technical Operations Manager | Technical Producer

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Quiet Room Closed Today

November 5th, 2009

The Quiet Room will be closed from 11AM until 4PM today to support an outside meeting. We apologize for the inconvenience.

ITP | Rob Ryan Technical Operations Manager | Technical Producer

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Upcoming Events - at ITP for the next few weeks

November 4th, 2009

All events are posted on the ITP events page: http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/news/category/featured/

* Friday, November 6 at 6:30pm - Product Developer, Marcel Botha

* Friday, November 13 at 2pm - Potential Space and the Mind of the Robot, Artist, Ken Feingold

* Friday, November 13 at 6:30pm - Artist, Angelo Vermeulen

* Friday, November 20 at 6:30pm - Race and What Policy Can Learn from Technology

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SPECIAL EVENT Product Developer, Marcel Botha Friday, November 6 6:30-8pm Room 447

Marcel will discuss the work that we do around Mass Collaboration in the Product Development space. At Mutopo, many of the organizations we work with are early stage. They raise money to bring new things to market. So they need ways to reduce the chance of a launch #fail. And they need to reduce the cost of launch, since burning through their hard won cash will also lead to #fail.

But why:

do so many products fail when they launch? does it still cost so much to launch a new product? I will discuss some of the ongoing experiments and client work that we are conducting in this space.

Here is a recent post: http://mutopo.com/2009/10/09/using-social- product-development-to-bake-in-communication/

Bio is here: http://marcelbotha.com/ Marcel is an energetic product developer with an international education in design, engineering and media arts. Prior to joining Mutopo, Marcel was COO and Director of Design at SNIF Labs, a MIT Media Lab inspired startup developing Active RFID products for commercial and healthcare applications, where he managed the tangible product development process, manufacturing and overall product launch. Prior to SNIF, his MIT research focused on mass customization and digital fabrication, conducted in association with the Digital Design Fabrication Group and the Center for Bits and Atoms. At the MIT Media Lab he collaborated with the Smart Cities Group and the Design Laboratory on Innovation consulting projects for GM, Mercedes and the RATP. Recent clients include Motorola, Pixtronix and Webvet .

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SPECIAL EVENT Potential Space and the Mind of the Robot Artist, Ken Feingold Friday, November 13 2-3pm Room 442 conference room

Ken Feingold?s talk at ITP will be ?Potential Space and the Mind of the Robot?. He will describe the development of his recent artworks and discuss, from a psychoanalytic perspective, how he conceptualizes the software ?personalities? he has created for his recent interactive animatronic installations. KEN FEINGOLD (USA, 1952) has been exhibiting his work in film, video, objects, and installations since 1974. After first studying at Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio) he received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. degrees in ?Post-Studio Art? from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA. Among the numerous awards and honors Feingold has received, the including a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2004) and a Rockefeller Foundation Media Arts Fellowship (2003). He has taught at Princeton University and Cooper Union, among others. A ?mid-career survey? of his work was shown at Ace Gallery in Los Angeles between October 2005 and February 2006. His works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (Film Study Collection) NY; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kiasma, Helsinki; ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and others. He has traveled widely, living for extended periods of time in India, Japan, and Argentina and working for shorter periods in many other countries. He lives in New York City.

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SPECIAL EVENT Artist, Angelo Vermeulen Friday, November 13 6:30-8pm Room 447 SYNOPSIS In this artist talk Angelo Vermeulen will present his biology- inspired works. He will focus on ?Biomodd?, a worldwide cross- cultural installation project in which ecology, community building, and case modding creatively converge. The first version was created at The Aesthetic Technologies Lab in Athens, Ohio between 2007 and 2008. In October 2009, the project?s second iteration in the Philippines was finalized after an 8-month long collaboration with a team of over 50 Filipino artists, scientists, engineers, gamers, craftsmen, volunteers and students. During the talk, ?Biomodd? will be elaborated upon using video excerpts, photos, work sketches and participant testimonies. Vermeulen will also introduce ?Corrupted C#n#m#?, his new art project set up in collaboration with FLUXspace in Philadelphia, and due to open on November 20. The work deals with biological infected electronics, glitch art and abstract cinema.

BIO Angelo Vermeulen is a visual artist, filmmaker, biologist, author, activist, and DJ. His research in ecology, environmental pollution and teratology informs his art, which includes bio installations, experimental setups incorporating living organisms and sci-fi references. His projects include ?Blue Shift?, a Darwinian art project in collaboration with biologist Prof. Luc De Meester, and ?Biomodd?, a worldwide series of cross-cultural, symbiotic installations fusing game culture, ecology and social interaction. Next to developing a new experimental cinameproject based on biologically infected electronics, he currently also collaborates with the MELiSSA life support division of the European Space Agency. Vermeulen co-authored the book ?Baudelaire in Cyberspace: Dialogues on Art, Science and Digital Culture?, with art philosopher Antoon Van den Braembussche, and lectures throughout Europe, Southeast Asia and North America.

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SPECIAL EVENT Race and What Policy Can Learn from Technology Raymond Codrington, Aspen Institute Friday, November 20 6:30-8pm Room 447

Recent events in politics and popular culture illustrate that both race and power are constantly shifting. Despite the prevalence of race and racial discourse in our daily lives we lack informed opportunities and frameworks to better understand the way in which race is constructed and implicated in our lives. The talk will focus on better understandings of racial disparities focusing on the ways that public policies, institutional practices, and cultural representations contribute to contemporary racial inequities. The discussion will also examine some of the underlying assumptions, beliefs and values that shape contemporary discussions on race; and, second, discuss ways to apply these insights to contemporary social, economic and political challenges in communities and/or organizations. Finally, the talk will address the need for policy programs to develop new methods to disseminate their work that engage new and emerging forms of media. Raymond Codrington manages the Racial Equity Seminars at the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change. Before joining the Aspen Institute, Codrington served as the founding director of the Julian C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies and curator in the department of anthropology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He has also taught anthropology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase and held the Sandy Boyd Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) at the Field Museum in Chicago. He received a BA in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is vice president of the Association of Black Anthropologists and a board member of the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD).

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Midori Yasuda Admissions, Special Events, Alumni Coordinator Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway, 4th Floor New York NY 10003 Phone: (212) 998-1882 Fax: (212) 998-1898 midori.yasuda@nyu.edu http://itp.nyu.edu

iPhone Development Workshop this Saturday

November 3rd, 2009

— We’re holding an iPhone Development Workshop this Saturday, November 7th, from 1-5pm in room 447! Snacks from the Dosa Cart provided! (Thanks to Red for the budget)

Too big for a DriveBy, but very much in the same spirit, this workshop will cover several topics to help get you up to speed with the iPhone development workflow. The goal is for you to come away with a working development environment on your system and to get a demonstration application running in the iPhone Simulator. The workshop will be led by myself, Bruno Kruse, Martin Ceperley (and more special guests?).

Some potential topics: ? Objective C language & syntax basics ? Model View Controller basics ? Linking interface builder w/ code ? Integrating with a server API ? Mapping with MapKit ? UI or UX design for the device ? Apple user interface guidelines ? iPhone GUI/Interface builder. ? Using openFrameworks for iPhone development

For more details watch the ITPedia page: http://itpedia.nyu.edu/wiki/Workshop_on_iPhone_Development

If you’re interested in attending, be sure to sign-up on ITPedia and get your system ready by installing the Apple Developer Tools and iPhone SDK. We’ll explain the rest!

Shop Closure - Not Cleaned

November 3rd, 2009

Students make a commitment to clean the shop when they take Physcomp courses and unfortunately this commitment has been sadly lacking over the last several days. I have therefore closed the shop until it and the Physcomp area have been effectively cleaned.

The students who have failed to clean the shop last night should contact me to discuss the situation.

John Duane

ITP Shop Manager

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Eclipse Tutorial

October 31st, 2009

Eclipse Tutorial

Tues, Nov 3rd, 1-3pm, Room 442.

Want to start developing Processing like Dan Shiffman does? Then use the tools he does. Learn how Eclipse can make your coding life easier. This tutorial will focus on developing Processing in Eclipse and give some introductions to some Java basics. However, Eclipse can be a valuable tool for PHP, C++, Action Script, etc. (I use it for all my development). Eclipse Plugins allow you to have access to version control, build tools, and DB development. Chances are, if you want to do some sort of programming, Eclipse can help you do it better.

Completed ICM or equivalent knowledge strongly recommended.

Brought to you by the Residents Matt and Corey.

Upcoming Events - Time Change for Laurie Anderson TODAY!

October 30th, 2009

All events are posted on the ITP events page: http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/news/category/featured/

* Friday, October 30 at 4:30pm - ITP Artist in Residence, Laurie Anderson <———— note the time change!

* Friday, October 30 at 6:30pm - Renaissance Woman, Destiny Mazursky

* Friday, November 6 at 6:30pm - Product Developer, Marcel Botha

* Friday, November 13 at 6:30pm - Artist, Angelo Vermeulen

* Friday, November 20 at 6:30pm - Race and What Policy Can Learn from Technology

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SPECIAL EVENT ITP Artist in Residence, Laurie Anderson Friday, October 30 4:30-6pm <———— note the time change! Room 447

DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, EVENT IS LIMITED TO CURRENT ITP STUDENTS, ALUMNI AND FACULTY/STAFF. THIS EVENT WILL BE RECORDED AND WILL BE PROVIDED ONLINE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

Artist Laurie Anderson will be speaking to the ITP community about her current work and upcoming solo opera, Delusion.

Conceived as a series of short mystery plays, Delusion jump cuts between the everyday and the mythic.

Combining violin, electronic puppetry, music and visuals, Delusion is full of nuns, elves, golems, rotting forests, ghost ships, archaeologists, dead relatives and unmanned tankers told in the colorful, poetic and imagistic language that has become Anderson’s trademark. Inspired by the breadth of Balzac, Ozu and Lawrence Sterne and employing a series of altered voices and imaginary guests Anderson tells a complex story about longing, memory and identity. At the heart of Delusion is the pleasure of language and a terror that the world is made entirely of words.

“You begin with a blank mind. There is absolutely nothing in it. Not a single picture. There is a void. No names. The first thing to wander into this mind is a small spotted dog named Terence and his owner historian and social commentator Fenway Bergamot.”

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SPECIAL EVENT Renaissance Woman, Destiny Mazursky Friday, October 30 6:30-8pm Room 447

Destiny Mazursky returns to New York City having spent the last six months at Seacamp (http://www.seacamp.org) working as a Junior Camp Trainee and Water Sports Instructor. Inspired by fish Eco-systems she now embarks on a nation wide investigation. That’s not all she does. She talks, she sings, she theorizes, she conceptualizes. She comes to ITP to share her thoughts and a cake.

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SPECIAL EVENT Product Developer, Marcel Botha Friday, November 6 6:30-8pm Room 447

Marcel will discuss the work that we do around Mass Collaboration in the Product Development space. At Mutopo, many of the organizations we work with are early stage. They raise money to bring new things to market. So they need ways to reduce the chance of a launch #fail. And they need to reduce the cost of launch, since burning through their hard won cash will also lead to #fail.

But why:

do so many products fail when they launch? does it still cost so much to launch a new product? I will discuss some of the ongoing experiments and client work that we are conducting in this space.

Here is a recent post: http://mutopo.com/2009/10/09/using-social- product-development-to-bake-in-communication/

Bio is here: http://marcelbotha.com/ Marcel is an energetic product developer with an international education in design, engineering and media arts. Prior to joining Mutopo, Marcel was COO and Director of Design at SNIF Labs, a MIT Media Lab inspired startup developing Active RFID products for commercial and healthcare applications, where he managed the tangible product development process, manufacturing and overall product launch. Prior to SNIF, his MIT research focused on mass customization and digital fabrication, conducted in association with the Digital Design Fabrication Group and the Center for Bits and Atoms. At the MIT Media Lab he collaborated with the Smart Cities Group and the Design Laboratory on Innovation consulting projects for GM, Mercedes and the RATP. Recent clients include Motorola, Pixtronix and Webvet .

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SPECIAL EVENT Artist, Angelo Vermeulen Friday, November 13 6:30-8pm Room 447 SYNOPSIS In this artist talk Angelo Vermeulen will present his biology- inspired works. He will focus on ?Biomodd?, a worldwide cross- cultural installation project in which ecology, community building, and case modding creatively converge. The first version was created at The Aesthetic Technologies Lab in Athens, Ohio between 2007 and 2008. In October 2009, the project?s second iteration in the Philippines was finalized after an 8-month long collaboration with a team of over 50 Filipino artists, scientists, engineers, gamers, craftsmen, volunteers and students. During the talk, ?Biomodd? will be elaborated upon using video excerpts, photos, work sketches and participant testimonies. Vermeulen will also introduce ?Corrupted C#n#m#?, his new art project set up in collaboration with FLUXspace in Philadelphia, and due to open on November 20. The work deals with biological infected electronics, glitch art and abstract cinema.

BIO Angelo Vermeulen is a visual artist, filmmaker, biologist, author, activist, and DJ. His research in ecology, environmental pollution and teratology informs his art, which includes bio installations, experimental setups incorporating living organisms and sci-fi references. His projects include ?Blue Shift?, a Darwinian art project in collaboration with biologist Prof. Luc De Meester, and ?Biomodd?, a worldwide series of cross-cultural, symbiotic installations fusing game culture, ecology and social interaction. Next to developing a new experimental cinameproject based on biologically infected electronics, he currently also collaborates with the MELiSSA life support division of the European Space Agency. Vermeulen co-authored the book ?Baudelaire in Cyberspace: Dialogues on Art, Science and Digital Culture?, with art philosopher Antoon Van den Braembussche, and lectures throughout Europe, Southeast Asia and North America.

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SPECIAL EVENT Race and What Policy Can Learn from Technology Raymond Codrington, Aspen Institute Friday, November 20 6:30-8pm Room 447

Recent events in politics and popular culture illustrate that both race and power are constantly shifting. Despite the prevalence of race and racial discourse in our daily lives we lack informed opportunities and frameworks to better understand the way in which race is constructed and implicated in our lives. The talk will focus on better understandings of racial disparities focusing on the ways that public policies, institutional practices, and cultural representations contribute to contemporary racial inequities. The discussion will also examine some of the underlying assumptions, beliefs and values that shape contemporary discussions on race; and, second, discuss ways to apply these insights to contemporary social, economic and political challenges in communities and/or organizations. Finally, the talk will address the need for policy programs to develop new methods to disseminate their work that engage new and emerging forms of media. Raymond Codrington manages the Racial Equity Seminars at the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change. Before joining the Aspen Institute, Codrington served as the founding director of the Julian C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies and curator in the department of anthropology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He has also taught anthropology at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase and held the Sandy Boyd Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change (CCUC) at the Field Museum in Chicago. He received a BA in government from the University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is vice president of the Association of Black Anthropologists and a board member of the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD).

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Midori Yasuda Admissions, Special Events, Alumni Coordinator Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway, 4th Floor New York NY 10003 Phone: (212) 998-1882 Fax: (212) 998-1898 midori.yasuda@nyu.edu http://itp.nyu.edu

Midori Yasuda Admissions, Special Events, Alumni Coordinator Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway, 4th Floor New York NY 10003 Phone: (212) 998-1882 Fax: (212) 998-1898 midori.yasuda@nyu.edu http://itp.nyu.edu

Stolen Laptop

October 30th, 2009

Last night Sara Bremen’s laptop was stolen from the Post Production Lab. If anyone has any information that would help in this incident, please see Sara or me immediately.

While it hasn’t happened in some time, thefts of personal belongings, including laptops, are not unheard of at ITP. The relatively closed nature of the ITP community can isolate us and lure us into feeling a false sense of security. You should not take the safety of your personal belongings for granted. Please use common sense — don’t leave your things unattended for any length of time on the floor.

The rarity of events like this makes it harder in some ways when it does happen, acting as a community-wide affront. Please look out for each other. If you see someone on the floor that you don’t recognize as a student, please point them out to the ER or Administrative Staff so we can follow up with them. If you need to leave your work area for a cup of coffee or to use the bathroom, it’s best to take your personal belongings with you.

Moving forward please be vigilant as the semester will only become more hectic from here on it.

Best,

Rob

ITP | Rob Ryan Technical Operations Manager | Technical Producer

Recent Events: http://itp.nyu.edu/show

Mail: rob.ryan@nyu.edu Twitter: robryannyc Phone: 212-998-9172