More Events/Talks this week for ITP
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> ** Thursday, March 30 at 6:30pm, Assistive Tech: Adam Krass, MS, ATP
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> ** Friday, March 31 at 1pm, Multimedia Artist, Marita Liulia from
> Finland
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> ** Friday, March 31 at 6:30pm, Multimedia Artist, Dafna Naphtali
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> Assistive Technology Presentation
> Thursday, March 30th
> 6:30 pm room 441
> Adam Krass, MS, ATP
>
> Adam Krass, MS, ATP
> will join us to discuss:
> – use of focus groups to evaluate products
> – beta testing
> – the product manufacturing process
> – total design: an holistic approach to new product design
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> Special Event
> Multimedia Artist, Marita Liulia from Finland
> Friday, March 31
> 1pm
> Conference Room
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> ARTIST BIO
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> Marita Liulia
> www.maritaliulia.com
>
> Marita Liulia is a visual artist and pioneer of multimedia. Maire
> (1994) was one of the first artworks published in cd-rom format.
> Ambitious Bitch, a humorous cd-rom about femininity (1996, 2nd edition
> 1998) was her international breakthrough. SOB (Son of a Bitch), a
> cd-rom about men and masculinity, followed in 1999. Tarot was
> published for six different formats and languages between 2000-2004.
>
> Liulia also works on stage, performing both on her own and in
> collaboration with other artists.
>
> Recent collaborations include Hunt with choreographer/dancer Tero
> Saarinen and Animator with musician/composer Kimmo Pohjonen. Hunt has
> been shown already in 20 countries since the premiere at the Venice
> Biennale in 2002.
>
> Hunts New York premiere is at the Joyce theater, March the 28th –
> April the 2nd 2006. More information on the performance at
> http://www.joyce.org/saarinen06.html
>
> Liulia has received numerous awards including Prix Möbius
> International, Prix Ars Electronica and the Finland Prize. She founded
> the production company Medeia in 1997 and Prix Möbius Nordica, a media
> culture competition, in 2000.
>
> At ITP Marita Liulia will present and discuss her recent work,
> including a mobile game designed for women.
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> Special Event
> Multimedia Artist, Dafna Naphtali
> Friday, March 31
> 6:30pm
> Japanese Room
>
> Dafna Naphtali  will be talking about her interactive audio processing
> system that she has been developing and revising in Max/MSP since 1993
> (same thing as before with lots of additions), for
> processing live audio during improvised performances and in prepared
> compositions. She will also be discussing as well new aesthetic and
> technical ideas she has been developing for the tracking and mapping
> of audio signals for use as control sources.
>
> http://www.dafna.info.
>
> Bio:
> A singer, sound artist/improviser and composer, coming from an
> eclectic background of music-making as singer/guitarist/electronic
> musician, Dafna Naphtali performs and composes using her own custom
> Max/MSP programs for sound processing of voice and other instruments.
> This she does in improvised projects and with the digital chamber punk
> ensemble, What is it Like to be a Bat?, that she co-leads with Kitty
> Brazelton (www.whatbat.org). She’s received commissions and awards
> from NY Foundation for the Arts, NY State Council on the Arts, Meet
> the Composer, a commission from American Composers Forum (for pianist
> Kathleen Supové) and a residency at STEIM (Holland). And gives
> workshops/teaches at universities including New York University, where
> she earned degrees in voice and Music Technology (BM, MM), at Bard
> College and the School of Visual Arts. She also teaches, programs and
> consults about Max/MSP at Harvestworks since 1996, and was a
> programmer for two years for many artists and her own projects at
> Engine 27 (a multi-channel sound gallery). She has done sound design
> and/or programming work for the projects of Jin Hi Kim, Shelley
> Hirsch, Pamela Z, Fred Frith, Jim Staley, Henry Threadgill, Steve
> Coleman and Chico Freeman. Dafna can be heard with Mechanique(s) on a
> forthcoming release on In-situ and as featured vocalist on José
> Halac’s CD “Dance of 1000 Heads” (Tellus), as well as on her acclaimed
> release with What is it Like to be a Bat? on Tzadik/Oracles.
>
> 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
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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