News and Events

EVENT: Facebook Products

mly2 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:05:31 +0000

Feb

3:30 pm

RECRUITMENT AND SPECIAL EVENT
Sam Lessin and Michael Sharon (ITP Alum) from Facebook
Friday, February 17
3:30pm, Room 50

Come hear from Sam Lessin, Director of Product and Identity Product Group Leader at Facebook. Sam will speak about timeline and some of the product challenges Facebook is focused on, as well as talk about how products get developed, designed, and launched.

Sam Graduated from Harvard in 2005. Prior to Facebook, Sam founded Brooklyn based file-sharing startup Drop.io and worked at Bain and Company.

ITP Alum (2004) Michael Sharon will be on hand to talk and answer questions about his experiences from an ITP perspective. Michael is a product manager at Facebook responsible for mobile strategy and product development. Prior to Facebook, Michael was an adjunct professor at New York University and the co-founder and CTO of Socialight, where he led the development of their social location platform. Michael holds a master’s in interactive telecommunications from New York University and a bachelor’s in English and Law from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

** Due to space limitations, this event will be limited to only current ITP students, alumni and staff/faculty.

Alum Becomes Patch’s Chief Content Officer

mly2 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:29:11 +0000

Congratulations to ITP Alumna Rachel Fishman Feddersen who is now Patch’s Chief Content Officer

http://corp.aol.com/2012/02/08/rachel-fishman-feddersen-joins-patch-leadership-team-as-chief-co/

EVENT: First Symposium on Research Art

mly2 — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:22:32 +0000

Mar

2:00 pm

The First Symposium on Research Art is a gathering of artists, curators, gallerists and theorists to investigate and debate the role of scientific and technological experiment in contemporary art practice—when is an artwork a science project, and when is a science project an artwork? Our guest speakers will present a variety of perspectives on the topic, ranging from historical to curatorial to practical to economical. The talks will be followed by an open panel discussion to address and debate the presented ideas interactively with the audience.

The event takes place on Saturday, March 24 at 2PM in the Tisch Common Room on the ground floor. Free and open to the public (donations welcome!).

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/316922931692369/

Registration Page: http://researchart.eventbrite.com/

Confirmed speakers include:

• Georgia Krantz, Historian

• Kyle McDonald, Artist

• Keynote by Ted Hayes and Alex Dodge, Artists

EVENT: Intel Vibrant Technologies

mly2 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:40:16 +0000

Feb

3:30 pm

“The word vibrant refers on the one hand to a kind of physical movement, specifically vibration or the rapid, rhythmical movement to and from. However, vibrancy also emphasizes vitality, or the capacity to live. A technology that is vibrant is one that can initiate its own movement and generate its own energy, physical or virtual. A vibrant technology is a source of aliveness.”

(Maria Bezaitis, Intel Research)

Vibrant Technologies are ones that explicitly address questions of agency and relationships. They are peers rather than tools, engaged with other technologies, people and environments.

Tuesday, February 28 3:30-6pm in Room 50 Intel Researcher Ken Anderson will discusses Intel’s research into the concept of “Vibrant Data” and a few of the projects it has inspired.

Following his discussion, four ITP student groups who have been working on research projects in Vibrant Technology for the past 4.5 months will share their results:

Margaret McKenna will discuss her project The Vibrant Web examining what lies below the surface as you browse online.

Zach Schwartz and Fred Truman will present their new mobile application Squares exploring the idea of technology having its own desires and learning its own tastes by using data from the Foursquare API and neural networks.

Maria Rabinovich will share her experiments with colocation triggered behaviors of mobile phones.

Alex Kozovski, Stepan Boltalin and Greg Dorsainville will introduce their web application pULLR.org an autonomous entity powered by YouTube that feeds on video and comment fragments to construct improvised media moments.

ITP Spring Show 2012

mly2 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:11:26 +0000

May

5:00 pm

May

5:00 pm

Save the dates!

Previous ITP shows documented here: itp.nyu.edu/show

ITP Thesis Week 2012

mly2 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:08:21 +0000

May

10:00 am

ITP Thesis Week will take place on the floor as well as online through our live webcast.

You can see archives of previous years here:

http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis