ITP Alumnus, Joshua Klein (’07) gives a talk at TED on the amazing intelligence of crows. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html Hacker and writer Joshua Klein is fascinated by crows. (Notice the gleam of intelligence in their little black eyes?) After a long amateur study of corvid behavior, he’s come up with an elegant machine that may form a new bond CONTINUE READING »

ITP Alumnus, James Powderly (’02), co-founder of the Graffiti Research Lab has been detained in China for planning a pro-Tibet art project in Beijing. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/19/grls-james-powderly.html The New York Times James has since been released after serving 6 days in a Chinese prison.  Read about his ordeal here: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews8-27-08.asp

Congratulations to ITP Alumna, Aranka Israni (’06) who will have a solo exhibition of work at the Agora Gallery in NYC. I would like to personally invite you to my next exhibition opening “Spatial Fluidity” on September 11th, 2008 in New York City at the Agora gallery located on 530 West 25th Street. I will be showing CONTINUE READING »

  Congratulations to ITP Alumna Sigi Moeslinger (’96) and her partner, Masamichi Udagawa (both ITP adjunct professors) for winning top honors in the product design category of the 2008 National Design Awards given by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. http://www.nationaldesignawards.org/2008/honoree/antenna-design Product Design Home – Product Design – Winner Antenna Design Co-founded by Sigi Moeslinger and Masamichi Udagawa in 1997, Antenna Design CONTINUE READING »

ITP Alum Aya Karpinska (’03) “published” her first work of digital literature for the iPhone/iPod Touch, called Shadows Never Sleep. It’s available for free from the iTunes App Store. It’s cute, it’s fun, it’s darn well worth a look-see. The piece uses a combinatory structure and the rhetoric of children’s literature to tell the story of CONTINUE READING »