Upcoming Special Events
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Upcoming Special Events at ITP
http://itp.tisch.nyu.edu/object/calendar.html?site=35
** Friday, Sept 29 at 1pm – Montreal based artist, Luc Courchesne
** Friday, Sept 29 at 5pm – Nursing Informatics and ITP
** Friday, Sept 29 at 6:30pm – Technologists, Kimbal Musk and Jen Lewin
** Friday, Oct 6 at 1:30pm – Mandatory Thesis Session option 1
** Friday, Oct 6 at 6:30pm – Book talk with Alex Galloway
** Friday, Oct 13 at 12pm – STEIM – Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music
** Friday, Oct 13 at 1:30pm – Mandatory Thesis Session option 2
** Friday, Oct 13 at 6:30pm – Spotlight on the Full-time Faculty
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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 Presentation
Nursing Informatics & ITP
Friday September 29
5pm in room 442
Join us on Friday, September 29th at 5pm in room 442 for a meeting
with Lena Sorenson, Professor and Coordinator of the Nursing
Informatics Program at NYU’s College of Nursing.
What is Nursing Informatics? It’s a specialty of health care which
deals with the support of nursing by information systems in the
delivery, documentation, administration and evaluation of patient
care and prevention of diseases.
Learn more about this field and about opportunities for ITP student
collaboration.
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Special Event
Technologist, Kimbal Musk and ITP Alum, Jen Lewin
Friday, September 29
starting at 6:30pm
they will talk about both Medium and 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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Special Event
STEIM: Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music
Friday, October 13
12pm – 1:15pm
Room 447
Robert van Heumen and Jeff Carey from STEIM (Studio for
Electro-Instrumental Music) will be visiting ITP from Amsterdam. The
talk will include information about STEIM, STEIM’s live sampling
software, LiSa, and the programming environment, Super Collider.
http://steim.nl
STEIM
STEIM (the studio for electro-instrumental music) is the only
independent live electronic music centre in the world that is
exclusively dedicated to the performing arts. The foundation’s
artistic and technical departments support an international community
of performers and musicians, and a growing group of visual artists,
to develop unique instruments for their work. STEIM invites these
people for residencies and provides them with an artistic and
technical environment in which concepts can be given concrete form.
It catalyzes their ideas by providing critical feedback grounded in
professional experience. These new creations are then exposed to a
receptive responsive niche public at steim before being groomed for a
larger audience. STEIM promotes the idea that Touch is crucial in
communicating with the new electronic performance art technologies.
To much the computer has been used, and designed, as an exclusive
extension of the formalistic capabilities of humans. At STEIM the
intelligence of the body, for example: the knowledge of the fingers
or lips is considered musically as important as the
‘brain-knowledge’. STEIM has stimulated the design of extremely
physical interfaces and is widely considered as the pioneering place
for the new live electronic concepts.
Robert van Heumen (NL)
Robert van Heumen (1968/NL) is electronic composer and musician,
making electronic music in the studio and on stage. Recent
compositions include the 5.1 composition ’12 Bullets’ for STEIM’s
Noiseroom, music for the choreography ‘Drink Me’ by Anouk van Dijk,
and the audio-visual composition ‘Solitude’ (with multi-media artist
Arnoud Noordegraaf) based on a book by Paul Auster. As a musician he
uses STEIM’s live sampling software LiSa with all kinds of
controllers. He is active as a member of the electro-acoustic sextet
OfficeR, electronic audio-visual trio SKIF++ and part of the N
Collective, and has shared the stage with Michel Waisvisz, Jeff
Carey, Oguz Buyukberber, Anne LaBerge, Guy Harries, Daniel Schorno,
Luc Houtkamp, Roddy Schrock and Nate Wooley. In both his composed and
live music he uses a mixture of environmental sounds, toys, voices,
sounds from kitchen appliances, and in general all kinds of ‘found
sounds’. Next to all of this he is managing director of the STEIM
foundation in Amsterdam. In another life he is a mathematician,
trumpet player and software programmer. Selected Works: 5.1
electronic composition ‘Fury (after anger)’ for Sonic Circuits
(2006), 5.1 electronic composition ’12 Bullets’ for STEIM’s Noiseroom
(2006), composition for the audiovisual production ‘Solitude’ (2005),
cd ‘OfficeR – The STEIM Sessions’, cds ‘N – Live at STEIM’ and ‘N
Collective – News from Holland’ – with various groups of the N
Collective, compositions for choreographies ‘Amour Fou’ (2003),
‘Drink me’ (2004), ‘STAU’ (2004), ‘Derivatives’ (2005) by Anouk van
Dijk Selected Bands: OfficeR (electro-acoustic sextet), SKIF++
(electric trio with visuals), Buyukberber/VanHeumen (duo on
bassclarinet & electronics), RKS (trio with dj sniff & Keir
Neuringer) – http://hardhatarea.com
Jeff Carey (US/NL)
Electronic music composer Jeff Carey, based in the US and in the
Netherlands, has been working with experimental, improvised and
composed electronic, electro-acoustic, and acousmatic music since the
early 90′s. Originally from the suburbs of Washington DC, he has
performed a handful of punk/hardcore bands and has played electronic
music or presented pieces and installations in the US and Europe at
festivals and venues such as Boralis (NO), Gaudeamus Music Week (NL),
Chelsea Museum of Art (US), Transmediale (DE), NuMusic(NO), Sonic
Acts (NL), Ekko Festival (NO), Cave 12 (CH), DNK-Amsterdam (NL),
Trondhiem Matchmaking (NO), MOCADC (US), The Network (BE), and
Placard (UK). Having studied Audio Technology at American University
(1994), and computer music composition at the Instituut voor
Sonologie in the Koningklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag (2002), his
work has evolved from an interest in no-input-mixer and field
recordings to include a focus on non-standard synthesis, algorithmic
composition and digital instrumentalism. Apart from purely acousmatic
and electro-acoustic composition, he is focused on performative
aspects of computer music and improvisation. He has played in the
groups 87 Central, Office-R(6), SKIF++, USA/USB, N-Ensemble, and
collaborated or performed with Francis Marie Uitti, Gert-Jan Prins,
Cor Fuhler, Oren Ambarchi, Tobias Delius, Jaap Blonk and the numerous
members of the N-Collective to name a famous few. Carey builds custom
electronic instruments for musicians and teaches courses in the
synthesis programming language SuperCollider 3, recently at new
media/arts institutions including NoTAM, BEK, TEKS (NO), and STEIM
(NL). He is one of many founding members of the N-Collective, a
pan-European music collective, and works to promote and present
N-Events in the US. http://radiantslab.com
N Collective
The N Collective is a pan-European group of instrumentalists and
composers who work together in many constellations in support of
group and individual projects. The core unit of about 9 composers and
instrumentalists can expand into approximately 20 people. Musical
activities range from purely composed acousmatic electronics to
acoustic ensemble pieces, electroacoustic improvisation and many
sub-variants. For the past couple of years N Collective groups have
been touring regularly throughout Europe and performing in festivals
such as Transmediale, Borealis, Rumor, YULE and have released a dozen
CD(R) releases on labels like: Lampse, Rune Grammophon, Staalplaat,
JDK Productions, ERS Records, NoTV (Universal) and X-OR. Recently,
the collective has produced a number N Events in Amsterdam, Norway
(Bergen, Stavanger), Geneva and Berlin. These events showcase a
variety of N constellations including the core ensembles like OfficeR
and PHO, acousmatic pieces by Jeff Carey and Robert van Heumen, and
smaller groups like USA/USB, MoHa! and SKIF++.
http://www.n-collective.com
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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 attend one of these sessions.
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Special Event
Spotlight on the Full-time Faculty
Friday, October 13
at 6:30pm
Room 447
Hear more about the personal work of ITP faculty members, Tom Igoe
(physical computing), Danny Rozin (digital artist) and Jean-Marc
Gauthier (3D).
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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