Upcoming Special Events
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Upcoming Special Events at ITP
http://itp.tisch.nyu.edu/object/calendar.html?site=35
** Friday, Sept 22 at 5pm – Assistive Tech Meeting
** Friday, Sept 22 at 6pm – social hour, plus Stern Biz Plan Competition Promo
** Friday, Sept 22 at 6:30pm – ITP Resident Researchers talk about their work
** Friday, Sept 29 at 1pm – Montreal based artist, Luc Courchesne
** Friday, Sept 29 at 6:30pm – Technologists, Kimbal Musk and Jen Lewin
** Friday, Oct 6 at 1pm – Mandatory Thesis Session option 1
** Friday, Oct 6 at 6:30pm – Book talk with Alex Galloway
** Friday, Oct 13 at 1pm – Mandatory Thesis Session option 2
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Assistive Tech Meeting
Friday 9/22
5pm
room 447
Hi everybody. Join us for a meeting of Assistive Tech Friday,
September 22 at 5pm in room 447.
Students who are working on projects currently and want to get
feedback — come! bring your projects!
Students who are interested and want to learn more — come! bring
your questions!
Plus: Second year student, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, will talk about the
Smart Hug (http://www.deweyhagborg.com/SmartHug/) and presenting (and
winning!) at the RESNA Student Design Competition in Atlanta this
past June.
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Friday, September 22
6pm refreshments provided by Roy Vanegas!
Also at 6pm, Loretta Poole from the Stern School of Business will be
on hand to promote the upcoming kick-off event for the annual Stern
Business Plan Competition. Team up with other students throughout
NYU and learn how to create a business plan and compete for seed
money!
NYU Stern School of Business invites the Tisch’s ITP students to:
8th Annual Business Plan Competition
Make a plan. Make a team. Make it happen.
New ventures need all types of expertise and skill sets to be successful.
Here is a chance for you to create tomorrow’s leading businesses and
social ventures.
Kick-off Cocktail Reception
September 27, Wednesday, 5:00 – 7:00 pm
(5:30-6:00 information session)
NYU Stern School, 44 W. 4th Street, Room 5-50 KMC
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Special Event
ITP Resident Researchers
Todd Holoubek, Carlyn Maw and Michael Olson
Friday, September 22
6:30-8pm
Room 447
You’ve seen them around, they’ve helped you a lot… now hear about
the work that Todd, Carlyn and Mike have been working for the past
year at ITP!
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Special Event
Montreal-based artist, Luc Courchesne
Friday, September 29
starting at 1pm
Room 447
Luc Courchesne (born 1952 in St-Leonard d’Aston, Quebec, Canada) is a
Canadian artist who works in the field of interactive art. Since the early
eighties he has spent his time researching interactivity, and campaigning
for the inclusion of multimedia exhibits in museums. He has created artworks
with light, photography, film and video. In recent years he has concentrated
on the representation of portraits and the coherence of mimicry, gesture and
language. When creating his installations, he always takes into
consideration the audience that will view the artwork.
He studied Design in Communication at the Nova Scotia College of Art and
Design in Halifax (Bachelor 1974), and Visual Studies at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in Cambridge (Master 1984). Since 1986, he has been
a professor in industrial design at the University of Montreal.
In 1997 he won the Gran Pix of the ICC Bienale in Tokyo. In 1999 he was
awarded a Distinction, in Interactive Art, in the Prix Ars Electronica for
“Landscape One”.
He currently is living and working in Montreal.
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Special Event
Technologist, Kimbal Musk and ITP Alum, Jen Lewin
Friday, September 29
6:30-7:30pm talk about Medium
7:30-8:30pm talk about The Kitchen
Room 447
Medium:
Medium is building a window for your browser where you see all the people
moving around you on the internet in real time. Effectively creating a
people dimension for the internet. You can reach out to these people,
follow crowds to different websites, or just enjoy being around people for
the first time online. The system is entirely opt-in, and every user has
total control over their anonymity and how they’re represented to others.
Medium is not publicly available yet, but this is an opportunity to see it
being developed under the covers before its launch later in the year.
The Kitchen:
The Kitchen is one of America’s leading eco-restaurants. From the beginning
where we were one of the first Wind-Powered restaurants in the country, to
the furniture that is built from the re-used ceiling rafters of the
building, to its Zero-Waste policy, The Kitchen has set the standard for
what it means to be a positive contributor to the environment and its
community.
Recent accolades are from Food and Wine, The New York Times, Gourmet, and
Zagat, that place The Kitchen as being not only one of the nation’s greenest
restaurants, but also one of its finest.
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Mandatory Thesis Meeting
Thesis Instructions
Friday, October 6
1:30-3pm
Room 447
Second year students must attend either October 6th OR the 13th. CHOOSE ONE!
We will cover details for:
* Background to the Thesis process at ITP
* Schedule and milestones
* Thesis Seminar
* Thesis Paper
* Thesis Week
Please arrange to attend one of these sessions.
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Special Event
NYU Professor, Alex Galloway
Friday, October 6
6:30-8pm
Room 447
Alex Galloway, a professor in the Culture and Communications program
at the Steinhardt School of Education at NYU will give a book talk at
ITP:
“Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture”
by Alexander R. Galloway
University of Minnesota Press, 2006
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/galloway_gaming.html
Website: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~ag111
Alexander R. Galloway is assistant professor in the Department of
Culture and Communication at New York University. Galloway previously
worked for six years at Rhizome.org. He is a founding member of the
software collective RSG, and maker of the data surveillance engine
Carnivore. The New York Times recently described his work as
“conceptually sharp, visually compelling and completely attuned to
the political moment.” Galloway is the author of Protocol: How
Control Exists After Decentralization (MIT Press, 2004). Gaming, a
series of essays on the aesthetics and politics of video games, will
appear in spring 2006 from University of Minnesota Press.
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Mandatory Thesis Meeting
Thesis Instructions
Friday, October 13
1:30-3pm
Room 447
Second year students must attend either October 6th OR the 13th. CHOOSE ONE!
We will cover details for:
* Background to the Thesis process at ITP
* Schedule and milestones
* Thesis Seminar
* Thesis Paper
* Thesis Week
Please arrange to attend one of these sessions.
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Midori L. Yasuda
Admissions, Special Events, Alumni Coordinator
Interactive Telecommunications Program
Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
721 Broadway, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
phone: 212/998-1882
fax: 212/998-1898
http://itp.nyu.edu