Aim and Scope
ADJACENT is an online journal of emerging media published by New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, or ITP.
Its mission is to share research, reflection, observations, and opinions from and for the diverse creators that are exploring the possibilities and directions at the frontiers of media and technology.
Rapid change—whether incremental, sudden, or meteoric—is the air we breathe. Think of all that you take for granted today that hardly existed a decade ago. Imagine what the next decade will bring. ADJACENT will be a forum to pause and consider the world we are making. It’s not intended to be a place to show off the latest app/widget/game/device/buzzword tech, but to explore what these new advances reveal about our selves and society, and/or what they might mean.
Emerging media includes expressive technology in programming, video, physical space, music, visual arts, products, entertainment, education, CR, AR, AI…you name it. We feel that emerging media has emerged enough to begin to take it seriously in terms of criticism and research into its effects.
We call the journal ADJACENT because each medium is connected to another, and creators, no matter the medium, are connected to each other,to society, and to the world. We have opportunities and responsibilities. We believe that it’s our adjacencies to diverse media, people, and disciplines that spark creativity. We’re influenced by the term “adjacent possible,” coined by the biologist Stuart Kaufman to describe how organisms grow and flourish—that is, change—just by existing near entities different from themselves.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Nancy Hechinger
Managing Editors
Alden Jones & Carrie Wang
Editors
Ashley Jane Lewis
Gabriella M Garcia
Lillian Ritchie
Matthew Ross
Mohammad Hafiyyandi
Noah Pivnick
Sam Hains
Art Direction & Web Design
Dana Elkis
Emily Lin
Ilana Bonder
Web Development
Wenqi Li
Illustration Curators
Camilla Padgitt-Coles
Katya Rozanova
Sam Hains
Sofia Suazo
Outreach
Mohammad Hafiyyandi
Instructions For Authors
Adjacent publishes 2 issues a year. We welcome articles from those both within the ITP community of students, faculty and alumni and the wider world of emerging media.
Have something to say? Something innovating, illuminating, interactive, irritating? Commentary or controversy, research or reflection…submit your idea for an article, and the editorial board will let you know as soon as we can if we will publish it in the next or future issues.
Submit here or at adjacent@itp.nyu.edu
QC System
All articles published by Adjacent have been reviewed by the Editorial Board.
Open Access Statement
Adjacent is an open-access journal. All of the articles are publicly accessible on Adjacent’s website upon publication. Sharing and adapting works published by Adjacent are permissible under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License..
ISSN
Adjacent is listed under the Library of Congress. ISSN: 2578-4307