today at 3:25
The Collective Storytelling Class is going to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum at 3:25 today and we have two extra spots. If you are interested in going, email Marianne Petit (marianne.petit@nyu.edu) asap.
Thanks! Marianne marianne.petit@nyu.edu
[WS09 Production Announcement]
The Winter Show FAQ is now public. If you are considering a project idea for the Winter Show, please read the FAQ to understand the deadlines and requirements involved:
http://itp.nyu.edu/help/show
The Project Database’s 2009 ITP Winter Show venue is now open. Additional information about the submission process is on the FAQ. This venue will remain open for submissions for approximately two weeks and will close at 12:00 Noon on Monday, December 7!
Please refer to the FAQ for all additional information, details on the submission process and important production dates.
Thanks!
- Tom, Marianne and 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
November 17, 2009
Memo to: ITP Students Re: Blocking Emergency Exits
On a fairly regular basis, project materials and personal belongings are blocking one or more of the emergency exits on the floor. In particular, the exit closest to the back side of the Quiet Room, over by the student lockers, has been consistently blocked. On occasion, the hallway has been blocked with a chair or ladder left abandoned.
Blocking the emergency exits, even temporarily, is a violation of NYU Fire and Safety protocol. We have attempted to communicate with students directly when items have been left out and are also labeled. However, this is not always the case.
Moving forward, ITP Staff will remove any items blocking an emergency exit and place them into lost and found, outside the ER. If your items are not picked up within 24 hours, they risk being discarded or recycled. Please be mindful of this policy as the semester comes to a conclusion.
Thank You,
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
Organized by Carolina Vallejo
Zach Gage is a digital mixed media and installation artist currently residing in New York City. Along with Memo Akten, Zach is one of the primary developers responsible for porting openFrameworks to the iPhone. He will be at ITP showing his work with oF as well as his recent work amongst which is lose/lose the evil game that destroys your files when you play it. His more popular iPhone apps are Unify and Synthpond.
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Carolina Vallejo (347) 469-1302 (917)-586-6035 carolinavallejo.com twitter.com/carolinavallejo www.flickr.com/photos/carolinavallejo
All events are posted on the ITP events page: http://itp.nyu.edu/sigs/news/category/featured/
* Friday, November 20 at 3:30pm - Brady Forrest from O’Reilly
* Friday, November 20 at 6:30pm - Race and What Policy Can Learn from Technology
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SPECIAL EVENT Getting Out There Brady Forrest from O’Reilly Media Friday, November 20 3:30-5pm Room 447
I track technology trends and companies. I spend much of my time on the conference circuit. When I am not at an event I am usually blogging about technology. I’ve seen companies have a great product that just can’t tell their story or find the right places to tell it.
Many of you are already working on your product ideas. At this talk I’ll provide a survey of events, blogs and other venues for getting yourself and your ideas out there. I will share what I look for when I evaluate companies for OATV, our VC arm. Finally I will share my thoughts on current technology trends.
Bio: >> I work at O’Reilly Media tracking technology products, companies, >> trends and the people who make it happen. My focus has been on >> mapping, location-aware, web development, and startups. >> Increasingly I’ve started to pay attention to government data, >> interactive platforms, realtime data and open-source hardware. I >> live in the browser (and often on planes). I chair Where 2.0, a >> geo-location and sensing conference, and co-chairs the Web 2.0 >> Expo in SF and NYC. I co-founded Ignite, a geek event where >> speakers give structured 5 minute talks. Ignite has spread to over >> 60 cities around the world — including NYC. >> >> Just prior to O’Reilly, I worked as a PM at Microsoft. In the 90s >> I worked in Supply Chain Management. I live in Seattle and >> regularly build tech art for Burning Man. I was on a grant-funded >> team this past summer that built Steve the Robot HEAiD, a large >> computer vision system project that played music or sounds based >> on the movements of the people within.
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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
Please note the following updates to the Spring 2010 course descriptions:
New description for Pixel by Pixel:
The World-Pixel by Pixel
H79.2273.1 Wed 12:30pm to 3:00pm Daniel Rozin Images and visual information are perhaps the most potent tool at our disposal with which to engage viewers of our computer based creations. Computers have the ability to share our visual world by means of evaluating visual information, transforming visual content and even generating visuals from scratch. This class focuses on the art of computer graphics and image processing. We explore the concepts of pixilation, image representation and granularity and the tension between reality and image. Students are introduced to the tools and techniques of creating computer images from scratch, manipulating and processing existing images, compositing and transitioning multiple images, tracking live video and masking, compositing and manipulating live video. The class uses the C language (which is taught in class) and the various API?s required for graphics including Open Frameworks.
New time and syllabus for Creating Community Environments:
Creating Community Environments
H79.2838.1 Fri 6:30pm to 9:00pm Kristen Taylor Why are some communities fun? Why do we only reluctantly participate in others? In this class, we do community fieldwork–battling for mayor on Foursquare, offering opinions in Hunch, researching products and services on Get Satisfaction to discover how collaborative actions happen. With a special focus on navigation, we’ll think about markets and audiences, looking for ways to create receptive environments for interactive work. Along the way, we’ll research language markers, design cues, griefing, upcycling, excellence, and craft as we focus on the agency of objects and the targeted representation of ideas. Readings range from single-purpose sites like WafflePeople.com to ecofuturist short stories to Irish poetry; students will use Tumblr blogs to respond to readings and share their observations with text, images, and video. Heavy emphasis on small group work in class meetings will lead to user testing at the midterm and an individual final project refined and evaluated by the class. Students will develop a deep understanding of consumption and contextual patterns to apply to their larger portfolio.
The syllabus for this course can be found here: http://itp.nyu.edu/ syllabus/CreatingCommunityEnvironments.pdf
All courses can be found here:
https://itp.nyu.edu/registration/CourseListing.php
—————————————————– Edward J. Gordon Faculty & Student Services Coordinator Interactive Telecommunications Program Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway, 4th floor New York, NY 10003 phone: (212) 998-1889 fax: (212) 998-1898 e-mail: edward.gordon@nyu.edu http://www.itp.nyu.edu
Hi Red’s class,
For Tuesday’s presentation, we need a little help. Can you please bring a couple of things you might have lying around in your apartment.
1. A small, empty, clean, non-flattened box. A toothpaste box, a cosmetic box, a tea box, a bandaid box, etc. etc… Anything less then 6 inches on the longest side, like these:http://www.flickr.com/ photos/molior/4107015928 (That’s a 1 inch grid in the background.)
2. A pair of scissors.
3. A brown paper grocery bag.
Big thanks! Group 19
I have arranged for the creators of the Monome, Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, to come to ITP on Wednesday November 18th to discuss their device and the work behind it. They will field questions from students and can talk about a range of subjects including design, sustainable manufacturing, and open source products among other things. Brian, who writes music under the name tehn, will also demo the controller.
Here is a short blurb:
“Monome is a small Catskills-based hardware company that makes controllers for electronic music performance and new media art. Their first product, the 40h, is an eight-by-eight grid of backlit buttons which connects to a computer using a USB cable and the Open Sound Control(OSC) protocol. Originally developed as an open ended performance interface for electronic music, its developers have said “The wonderful thing about this device is that it doesn’t do anything really,”[1]. As a result, developers have begun to use the Monome as an interface for other types of software, from text displays to games. Monome as a company is committed to a minimalist philosophy both with regards to design on the one hand, and economic and ecological production principles on the other[2].”
More info at the Monome wikipedia page and monome.org.
The talk will start at 9pm on Wednesday in room 447. They are coming all the way from the Catskills so I hope you will be kind enough to join us.
Regards,
Paul Rothman paulr@nyu.edu
Hi Red’s class,
For Tuesday’s presentation, we need a little help. Can you please bring a couple of things you might have lying around in your apartment.
1. A small, empty, clean, non-flattened box. A toothpaste box, a cosmetic box, a tea box, a bandaid box, etc. etc… Anything less then 6 inches on the longest side, like these: http://www.flickr.com/ photos/molior/4107015928 (That’s a 1 inch grid in the background.)
2. A pair of scissors.
3. A brown paper grocery bag.
Big thanks! Group 19
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
Spring 2010 Advisement and Registration Dates
Spring 2010 Advisement begins on Monday, November 16 and concludes on Thursday, December 3.
As you begin to prepare for spring registration, check to see that your access to registration is not blocked due to any holds on your record. To check for registration blocks, login to Albert and choose ?Registration Status,? enter your program then hit ?Submit.? Should any stops appear, you will be able to click on the stop for a description and an advisory of how to clear the registration block. REMEMBER–ADVISOR APPROVAL blocks will not be cleared until just before the start of the ALBERT phase (see below).
All students will register using the ITP registration system (see below) by entering their course preferences in the system by Thursday, December 3 at 6:00 p.m.
It all begins here:
http://itp.nyu.edu/help/
Spring 2010 Course Information is available at the link marked “Spring 2010 Course Info”.
Please note that this Spring, Monday courses will meet using a different schedule than the rest of the week’s courses. Each Monday course will meet for 12 sessions of 2:55 hours per session. This will ensure that each course offers the same number of hours of instruction as those that meet for 14 sessions of 2:30 hours per session, but allows these courses to end during the same week as the rest of the schedule despite the holidays which affect the Monday schedule in the Spring semester (Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday and Presidents’ Day).
Spring 2010 Advisement
To schedule your appointment with your advisor, simply click on “Advisement Appointments” under highlighted FAQs, and follow the instructions.
Students taking Thesis in the Spring 2010 semester must enter the Thesis Course Lottery:
Prior to the regular lottery for courses, we will be conducting a separate Thesis course lottery on Tuesday, December 1. All student interested in taking a Thesis course in the Spring semester click on the link marked
Enter Thesis Preferences
and log-in (using your netID and password) and enter your preferences for ALL nine of the Thesis sections by 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 1.
We will then run the Thesis program to determine your Thesis course assignment. That information will be loaded into the main lottery system, in which you should input your preferences for your non- Thesis courses by Thursday, December 3. (see below)
Your thesis proposal must be entered into the projects database. You can do so by clicking on the link on the help page titled “Add/Update Thesis Proposal”, and creating a project. You need to go back in and edit it, filling in the four required fields: Abstract, Personal Statement, Context and Implementation. This should be done prior to your meeting with your academic advisor.
ITP Registration System for non-Thesis courses
Registration for Spring 2010 courses will be conducted in two stages (three for students taking Thesis).
For stage one of the process, you will need to go to:
http://itp.nyu.edu/help/
Under Highlighted FAQs, click on Enter Course Preferences
Log in as normal, using your NetID and your password.
Please read and follow the instructions to enter your Spring 2010 course preferences. All students are encouraged to enter their course preferences as soon as possible, and at the latest, prior to meeting with their advisor. (It will be easier for your advisor to advise you if s/he has a sense of what courses you’re interested in prior to meeting with you.)
You have until 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 3 to enter your course selections. Unlike with ALBERT, the date and time that you submit your choices will have no bearing on your final schedule, provided you enter your selections by the deadline. You can even go back into the system and change your selections as many times as you want as long as you finalize your choices by December 3 at 6:00 p.m.
At 6:00 p.m. on December 3, the program will automatically create a course schedule for every person who entered their course selections on the site by examining how each registrant prioritized his/her choices and determining their enrollment in a given course by priority when possible, and randomly when necessary.
The schedules will then be downloaded into ALBERT by 9:00 a.m. on December 10 at the latest.
NOTE: This process will both enroll students in the courses, and generate waiting lists for courses that close due to registration based on the priority assigned to each student given their graduation status (first year, second year), and how they ordered their preferences.
PLEASE NOTE: ONLY THE FIRST FIVE ON THE GENERATED WAITING LIST WILL BE ENTERED INTO ALBERT. If the registration result generated by the program puts you sixth or further down on the waiting list, you WILL NOT be waitlisted for the course in the initial round.
The second stage of the process will commence on Tuesday, December 15 at 11:00 a.m., when all returning students who have been advised will be activated to use ALBERT to register for any open seats in courses that may remain, put themselves on waiting lists for the courses that have closed, and make whatever other changes they may desire to make at that time.
Remember that you will already be registered for whatever courses the program assigned to you based on your preferences and your luck. You need to log onto ALBERT on Tuesday, December 15 only if you want to add or waitlist yourself for one or more courses that you did not initially consider, or if you need to make changes to your registration.
Here are some important Spring 2010 dates:
The Spring 2010 Academic Calendar
Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Monday, January 18 (NYU closed)
Spring classes begin Tuesday, January 19
Presidents’ Day Monday, February 15 (NYU closed)
Spring Recess Monday, March 15 - Saturday, March 20 (no classes)
Last day of classes Friday, April 30
Thesis Week Monday, May 3 - Friday, May 7
ITP Spring Show Sunday, May 9- Monday, May 10
TSOA Salute Tuesday, May 11
NYU Commencement Wednesday, May 12
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Gordie
—————————————————– Edward J. Gordon Faculty & Student Services Coordinator Interactive Telecommunications Program Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway, 4th floor New York, NY 10003 phone: (212) 998-1889 fax: (212) 998-1898 e-mail: edward.gordon@nyu.edu http://www.itp.nyu.edu