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ITPG-GT.3022.1 () | Instructor: Molly Soda | Sat 12:20pm to 5:20pm / Sat 12:20pm to 4:20pm | Meeting Pattern: S-Special | This course explores the ways that we perform on and for the Internet. We’ll take a look at how artists have used social media, live-streaming, and multi-user online spaces as a site for performance. Students […]

This course will challenge students to reflect on the concept of value creation, specifically the growing intersection of economic, social, and environmental value in the context of an interconnected and interdependent global society, and the role that technology and design can play in the advancement of social good. In the tradition of ITP, this class […]

This course focuses on the Design, User Testing, and Production of the final Thesis project. Students will meet with the Thesis Advisor bi-weekly, often in small study groups or 1:1 meetings. Prerequisite: Thesis Part 1: Research and Development. ITPG-GT.2099.1 () | Instructor: Kathleen Wilson | Tues 3:20pm to 5:50pm | Meeting Pattern: 7-All Semester | Start Date […]

Rui Pereira Magic windows that allow us to peek into different realities without leaving our physical space, lenses that reveal hidden layers of objects or navigating new universes within the same room. More than ever, mobile devices are getting a human­scale understanding of space and motion allowing us to create more intimate interactions with our […]

Kari Love While the automation of religion may sound like science fiction, the foundation of this course is examples of physical religious robots already built and spanning most major religions. Their existence raises complex questions about spiritual assistive devices, religious jobs as work, technology as “miracles,” idolatry, transhumanism, sacrilegious robots vs secular robots, the role […]

This course explores the fundamentals of storytelling through animation. Students will create two short animation pieces over the course of seven weeks. The first part of the course is devoted to the stop motion using Dragon Stop Motion. The second part of the course is devoted to digital collage animation using After Effects. Drawing skills […]

This course introduces the Python programming language as a tool for reading and writing digital text. This course is specifically geared to serve as a general-purpose introduction to programming in Python, but will be of special interest to students interested in language and computer-generated text. Among the topics we’ll discuss are: the history and aesthetics […]

On October 8th, 2015, a team in Ecuador identified 431 species of birds – the world record for number counted in a single day. Earlier that year in Myanmar, a scientist counted one Jerdon’s babbler, the first in nearly eight decades. In December of 2019, eBird announced that its database held over 737 million bird observations.

We build computers based on an illusory view of ourselves and miss out on connecting with good parts.  This class looks at how we can reach the rest of you, the unconscious, the implicit, the context beyond the text.  The readings and discussions in this class draw on modern research such as neuroscience, behavioral economics, […]

Physical Controllers for Unity will guide students in the creation of game controllers for Unity applications. Leveraging simple circuits and easy communications protocols, students will create physical controllers to control their Unity creations.

Daniel O’Sullivan You live with illusions. The nature of these illusions has long been described in mystical practices but is now increasing corroborated by modern research such as neuroscience, behavioral economics, social psychology, embodied cognition and evolutionary psychology. What does this have to do with computational media? With technology do we have the ability to […]

This class provides foundational understanding of the scientific and social issues related to the design of resilient urban futures. It provides ways of understanding our shifting ecological landscapes and the need to engage in design that addresses the conditions of the time we are living in now = the Anthropocene = the epoch when human beings began to problematically impact global climate and ecosystems.

R. Luke DuBois This course teaches the ins and outs of using imagery in real­time within a performance context. The class will use Max/MSP/Jitter to study various ways of manipulating visual media (video, still imagery, live camera feeds, data representations) in intergration with various interactive elements (sound, physical interfaces, sensors) in order to create dynamic […]

 Kari Love Because the full potential of the emerging field of soft systems is unrealized, there are countless opportunities for curious innovators to discover or develop novel soft systems. Soft robotic skills and techniques also open up a world of possibilities for large scale or surprising artwork. This course teaches hands-on fabrication techniques for constructing […]