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Thomas Igoe We use light in all aspects of our lives, yet we seldom notice it. Most of the time, that’s no accident. Lighting in everyday life, well­designed, doesn’t call attention to itself. Instead it draws focus to the subjects and activities which it supports. In this class, you’ll learn how lighting design is used […]

Ali Santana Throughout history, musicians have channeled their creativity into outrageous fashion statements and invented personas: think MF DOOM, Sun Ra, Ghostface Killah, Daft Punk, Leikeli47 and Rammellzee. By embracing their alter egos in extreme and outlandish ways, artists have found their authentic creative voices. This course will introduce participants to the art of masquerade […]

Marina Zurkow Cultivating a “Research-based Practice” requires an artist/designer to be a pioneer, adetective and a mystic all in one.What does it look like to make work in, through and as research? How do you follow ahunch? Engage experts and passersby to explore both legitimate AND preposterousleads? Be expansive? How do you leave your own […]

Andy Sigler Hardware is not hard, and new tools at ITP make it easier than ever to make custom circuit boards for your projects. Students will learn how to grow from a breadboard to their own surface mount PCB, all without leaving the floor. This class is about artists and designers taking control of their […]

Is augmented reality technology about to enter the mainstream? AR platforms have finally become widely accessible to artists, designers, and technologists thanks to recent advances in mobile performance and a new collection of powerful computer vision techniques. As such, the medium offers rich possibilities for experimentation and a chance to rethink how we experience the […]

With the release of consumer head mounted displays the current wave of virtual reality is in full swing. It seems that everyone is making software and hardware for VR or is in the distribution game. One issue still remains and could be the biggest challenge for virtual reality to be embraced by the masses – […]

Nancy Nowacek MUSCLE is a class exploring the body as technology through readings, sketches, performance, dirty prototypes and conceptual proposals. For the past 79,850 years of evolution, the body has been the primary tool for transforming the world. Over the past 150 years, the body’s capacities and capabilities have been increasingly outsourced to machinery, appliances, […]

The class will focus on the many overlooked aspects of paper and how it can be used as a three-dimensional material. We will review the disciplines of pop-ops, origami, paper craft, as well as visual design. Using these methods as a starting point, students will then build prototypes exploring new ways to tell stories, inform, […]

Colleen Higgins This 6-­‐week, 2 point course will be focused on developing and deploying front-­‐end mobile web applications using HTML5, CSS, JavaScript. Additional focus will be on capabilities suited to the mobile device such as the geolocation, touch interfaces, responsive design, sensor data (gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer), and media capture. Finally, the course will cover using […]

The course title, “Veillance” is a reference to the root of “surveillance” and “sousveillance”, watching from above and watching from below respectively. As digital media becomes a greater part of our everyday lives, it is important to understand the new forms of surveillance that it enables as well as to harness these capabilities and perhaps […]

Ben Light The goal of this class is to gain an understanding and proficiency with Computer Aided Design (CAD). We will become familiar with CAD software, mechanical design, and simulation. The class will cover common CAD modeling techniques. We will use our designs to get physical parts made as well as use them in virtual […]

Eric Rosenthal Todays mostly digital world also requires a basic knowledge of circuits that do notrequire computer processing. Analog circuits are simpler, lower cost, smaller andrequire less power and still perform many of the functions of digital circuits. In thiscourse students will learn about the basic principles of electricity, components such asresistors, capacitors, diodes, transistors, […]

How do we make something from nothing, and nothing from something? The idea of nothing, and optical illusions have been linked since the western discovery of zero lead to the beginning of linear perspective. In this course we will explore an array of optical illusions, ranging from traditional approaches to new technologies. Structured as primarily […]

Pedro Galvao Cesar de Oliveira Today we are no longer solely connected to the digital world through computers. The result of this push to connect the digital and the analog world is the increasing necessity for low cost, low power, and self-contained electronics. This course is an applications-driven intro to electronics for inventors. Through a […]