Upcoming Events - at ITP for the next few weeks
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