[ February 20, 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Have you seen or heard of motion-picture displays in subway tunnels that show ads to riders moving between stations? Joshua Spodek developed that medium and cofounded Submedia (www.submediaworld.com), the company that put those displays in Manhattan and cities in North America, Asia, Europe, and Central America. He has also shown work in that medium in CONTINUE READING »

[ February 13, 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] STEIM - 40 years in live electronic arts by ITP Alumnus, Takuro Mizuta Lippit / dj sniff For the last forty years STEIM, STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam has been the leading institution in research, development and facilitating live electronic music and arts. Many unique instruments and tools have been created over the years; Blackbox Modular CONTINUE READING »

[ February 27, 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] ShiftSpace: While the Internet's design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. ShiftSpace is an open source platform that attempts to subvert this trend by providing a new public space on the web. By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a CONTINUE READING »

[ February 6, 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Jill Magid seeks intimate relations with impersonal structures. She is intrigued by hidden information, being public as a condition for existence, and intimacy in relation to power and observation. Magid works in a variety of media including literature, video, sculpture, photography, and performance. She received a MS in Visual Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of CONTINUE READING »

[ January 30, 2009 5:00 pm to February 1, 2009 5:00 pm. ] NYU will be taking part in the Global Game Jam. - ITP current students and alumni are encouraged to join! In a game jam, participants come together to make video games. Each participant works in a small team on a complete game project over the course of a limited time period, usually a weekend. With such CONTINUE READING »