[ April 26, 2008; 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Presentations on the theory & practice of surveillance and contemporary protest art, by graduate students in the ITP program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. The presenters' talks will be grouped into four panels, to be moderated by their Professor, Marisa Olson (Curator at Large, Rhizome), on topics ranging from voyeurism and play to intervention and networks of control. These CONTINUE READING »

[ April 11, 2008; 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ] James Clar (ITP Class '03) will give a presentation talking about some of his more recent projects. After graduating from ITP, James has gone on to do art exhibitions and commercial projects in New York, Tokyo, and Dubai, where he currently lives. Focusing on the use of light as a medium for visual systems, he CONTINUE READING »

[ April 4, 2008; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] ** David McConville is a guest of ITP Adjunct Professor, Gretchen Gano's Art/Science Collisions class at ITP Shifting Perspectives: Explorations in the Process of Unframing The quest for representation of the subjective experience has been central in the history of art. From the linear perspective of the Renaissance to impressionist painting to experimental cinema, artists have sought CONTINUE READING »

[ April 4, 2008; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] R/GA is recruiting! Speakers: Chloe Gottlieb - VP, ECD Interaction Design Richard Ting - VP, Executive Creative Director Jill Naussbaum - Creative Director, Interaction Design - Nike They will describe R/GA's work in Interaction Design, Mobile, and Emerging Media. They will review their unique take on Interaction Design at, some of their work (specifically Nike Plus, and Nike CONTINUE READING »

[ April 18, 2008; 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Combining elements of computer science, anthropology, visual art and storytelling, Jonathan Harris (b. 1979) designs systems to explore and explain the human world. He has made projects about human emotion (wefeelfine.org), human desire (love-lines.org), modern mythology (universe.daylife.com), science (phylotaxis.com), news (tenbyten.org), anonymity (justcurio.us) and language (wordcount.org), and documented an Alaskan Eskimo whale hunt (thewhalehunt.org). CONTINUE READING »