New art and new definitions of art and artist are discussed. Major attention is paid to the New York scene with guest lectures by artists and visits to galleries, museums, and other major sites in the current art system.
Art Theory & Critical Studies (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
ARTCR-UE 52-000 (12940)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon9:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Washington SquareInstructed by Graves, Anthony
The required design project consists of two three-credit courses. The first course, EE DP1, is one of a number of specialty lab/project courses offered by the department in various subdisciplines such as electronics, machinery, robotics, imaging, communications, etc. (EE-UY 4113-4183, below). DP1 provides significant background laboratory experience in the student’s area of concentration. Students begin independent projects by finding an adviser and initiating the project work, and exercising oral presentation and written communication skills. | Prerequisite: ECE-UY 3054 and Senior Level
Elect. Engineering – ECE UGRD (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 14 Weeks
ECE-UY 4183-000 (3920)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Mon11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Knox, Michael
ECE-UY 4183-000 (3921)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Wed11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Knox, Michael
ECE-UY 4183-000 (3922)09/02/2025 – 12/11/2025 Thu10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Knox, Michael
Elect. Engineering – ECE UGRD (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
Computer Science (Undergraduate)
3 credits – 15 Weeks
The course covers the genetics of bacteria, viruses and high organisms. Emphasis is on both the genetic and biochemical analyses of gene replication, heredity, mutation, recombination and gene expression. Included are comparisons of prokaryotic and eukaryotic genetics and regulation. Laboratory techniques are used to study genetic phenomena in prokaryotes, eukaryotes and viruses. The course emphasizes modern approaches to genetic research. A lab fee is required. | Prerequisite: BMS-UY 1004. Co-requisite: CM-UY 2213 or CM-UY 2214.
Biomolecular Science (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
BMS-UY 3114-000 (20339)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Mon2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by
BMS-UY 3114-000 (20340)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Tue2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by
BMS-UY 3114-000 (20338)09/02/2020 – 12/13/2020 Mon,Wed12:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by
This is a one-semester introductory course in general chemistry. It covers chemical equations, stoichiometry, thermodynamics, gases, atomic and molecular structure, periodic table, chemical bonding, states of matter, chemical equilibrium, organic, inorganic and polymeric materials and electrochemistry. | Corequisite: EX-UY 1
Chemistry (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
CM-UY 1004-000 (16847)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16848)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16849)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1004-000 (16850)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1004-000 (16851)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16852)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16968)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (16969)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (24919)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon10:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mishiyev, Robert
CM-UY 1004-000 (24918)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mishiyev, Robert
CM-UY 1004-000 (16853)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue,Thu9:00 AM – 10:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Hagver, Rena
CM-UY 1004-000 (16854)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Thu2:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Pollack, Myron
CM-UY 1004-000 (16855)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Thu1:00 PM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Pollack, Myron
CM-UY 1004-000 (16856)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (16857)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Chigirinskaya, Lyubov
CM-UY 1004-000 (20330)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (20331)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (17125)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed7:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (17124)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Wed6:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Charnick, Suzanne
CM-UY 1004-000 (16858)
This course covers states of matter, chemical thermodynamics and equilibria, kinetics, acid-base chemistry, electrochemistry, introduction to organic chemistry, natural and synthetic polymers. The course is required for students in the Biomolecular Science Program. | Prerequisite: CM-UY 1004 or CM-UY 1014. Corequisite: EX-UY 1.
Chemistry (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
CM-UY 1024-000 (19120)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Pollack, Myron
CM-UY 1024-000 (19121)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Pollack, Myron
CM-UY 1024-000 (19122)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon6:00 PM – 7:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mishiyev, Robert
CM-UY 1024-000 (19123)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon5:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mishiyev, Robert
CM-UY 1024-000 (19124)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Fri9:00 AM – 11:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1024-000 (19125)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Fri8:00 AM – 9:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1024-000 (19126)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Fri12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1024-000 (19127)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Fri11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Roy, Debasish
CM-UY 1024-000 (19128)01/27/2020 – 05/11/2020 Tue,Thu11:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Morning)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Sun, Donghong
This interdisciplinary course examines the works of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, three German-speaking writers who pioneered radically different and influential interpretations of modern life, which continue to shape our contemporary understanding of society and individuality. The seminar not only delves into the origins of these prominent traditions of modern Western thought, but also underscores their relevance in modern social theories and poetics. Hence, the course will also include references to the writings of their contemporaries, as well as explications of the direct and indirect influences of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud on other writers.
German (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
GERM-UA 9240-000 (9424)02/03/2020 – 05/14/2020 Mon5:00 PM – 8:00 PM (Late afternoon)at NYU Berlin (Global)Instructed by Steilen, Felix
What is the relationship between American musician and poet, Gill Scott-Heron and cybernetics? Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not be Televised” was created in hopes to wake-up 1970’s America from complicity in societal oppression to then realize the revolution begins in your mind and something created through active participation, not passive media consumption. While, iterated forms of cybernetics also challenge the notion that “technology [or society] is self-correcting”, through fostering design thinking and systems theory through a meta-scale analysis of computational practices, essentially promoting being an observer of systems through conversation with process and feedback loops. Both ideologies center intention and holistic design within innovation — concepts vital to the equitable well-being of society in a technocratic era. In this course, students will explore the origins and history of the internet and HCI technologies as stemming from hippie communes, counterculture and warfare; survey historical and current social relations in the U.S.; study how these social relations have been replicated and embedded into everyday technologies; and consider potential futures in tandem with rapid technological advancements. We will study the works of pioneering designers and thought-leaders from Norbert Wiener, Stewart Brand, and Victor Papanek to Alondra Nelson and Ruha Benjamin. Phenomena discussed throughout the course range from the power of Black Twitter, the social media revolution of Egypt’s Tahrir Square, to cryptocurrency being used in bail reform. After in-depth historical analysis of societal structures, geo-political dissent, and algorithmic patterns, students will engage with futurism and speculative practices, techno-culture manifestos, and design and systems theory to develop a variety of research-driven projects. We will conclude with using both second-wave cybernetics as a design framework, and an anthropological lens to imagine, innovate and design more equitable technocratic futures. Topics heavily examined throughout the course include: surveillance, race, socioeconomics, carceral capitalism and technoscience, algorithmic bias and oppression, and post-work societal structures.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 8 Weeks
ITPG-GT 2064-000 (23447)01/27/2020 – 03/23/2020 Mon12:00 AM – 2:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Melenciano, Ari
The ways in which we communicate has changed radically in the last 100 years. As the communication systems we use have increased in complexity, so has the effort it takes to understand how they work. Most of us use protocols like LTE, HTTP, TCP/IP, and BLE every day. We take them for granted, almost like we do the laws of nature. But there are more than the laws of physics, more than techniques of engineering, embedded in the design and implementation of our protocols of communication. To understand their role in our lives, we need to look into the societal and economic contexts in which they came to be. In this class, we will examine communication protocols using Raspberry Pi’s, Arduinos, Software Defined Radios, and other connected devices. We will look closer at organizations like iSOC, ICANN and IEEE to better understand how protocol designs are implemented and standardized. Through readings, research and hands-on work we will build an understanding of how these protocols work, how their designs incorporate the physical, technical, cultural, corporate and political assumptions of the actors behind them. In the first half of the class readings and assignments will help familiarize students with some of the different protocols we rely on every day. In the second half, students will work in groups to investigate a communications protocol and consider its impact from a technical, societal and environmental perspective. Final projects will communicate their findings in whatever form students deem appropriate – explanatory blog posts, physical or digital installations, or even videos and podcasts.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 6 Weeks
ITPG-GT 2056-000 (22886)03/30/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mattu, Surya
Introduction to Critical Mapping and Open Source Geospatial Web Analysis and Visualization is an introduction to critical perspectives in cartography and geospatial information systems and web technologies. This course will introduce students to the foundations of geographic data analysis and visualization, grounding practical studio based exercises and projects with critical readings and theory. Students taking this course will gain an appreciation for geographic thinking, learn to ask geographic questions, and apply basic methodologies to “make sense” of geographic data. The course will be conducted with open source geographic information systems and web technologies. Students are not expected to enter the class with knowledge of these tools, but will be expected to learn and apply them through studio exercises and project briefings.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 6 Weeks
ITPG-GT 2049-000 (22872)03/30/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Lee, Joseph K
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 intersection of the physical and digital. In this course, students will acquire an understanding of basic concepts and techniques necessary to prototype and build simple AR experiences – with a consideration of not just visual but also aural AR. We’ll supplement practical exercises with an overview of the history of AR, and discuss the ethical, legal, and societal considerations cropping up around this topic. Our tool of choice will be Unity, but we will go over prototyping techniques outside of the platform to speed up the design process. If there is interest, we will cover how to get started building projects in openFrameworks, mobile, or web AR – and discuss why or when you might want to work within other platforms. Even though code samples will be provided, students are highly encouraged to have a basic understanding of Unity or at least have taken an introductory programming course. A working knowledge of Unity can be gained through Unity tutorials (https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials) or Lynda (https://www.nyu.edu/lynda).
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
ITPG-GT 2037-000 (22657)09/02/2021 – 12/14/2021 Mon6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at OnlineInstructed by
Autonomous Artificial Artists (AAA) is a class to explore ways of making artworks “autonomous.” In this context, “autonomy” brings together three independent but related criteria: 1) artificial intelligence being a primary determinant in an artwork’s aesthetics 2) autonomous software principles culled from peer-to-peer network design, blockchain and decentralization technology, serverless and federated machine learning, cryptoeconomics, and agent-based multiplayer simulation. 3) crowd-sourced art where mass, unbounded cooperation of many participants creates novel artworks which represent the “hive mind” or collective input. The goal of this class is to learn a little bit about each of these seemingly disparate fields, and see how they may interact in interesting new ways. The idea of autonomous artworks is very new, and is being actively discussed by a small group of interdisciplinary researchers and artists since 2016/2017. Although the topic is highly experimental, it is nevertheless based on concrete technologies, making simultaneous use of several techniques which are under active development and have potentially far-reaching ramifications well outside the domain of art. The time is ripe for people within more design-oriented fields to begin thinking about how they might be used in a broader context. The class has both a theoretical component (learning about each of the individual technologies and their interplay) as well as a practical component: training and deploying generative models on computational environments that are as close to decentralized or autonomous as possible. In addition, we will explore prior notions of crowd-sourced or mass-collaborative art, touching on older principles and strategies such as Oulipo, exquisite corpse, and crowd-sourced computational artworks like Electric Sheep, Exhausting a Crowd, and others.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 5 Weeks
ITPG-GT 2497-000 (22882)04/06/2020 – 05/11/2020 Mon3:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Kogan, Gennady
Stereo (2-speaker) sound is the default way we produce and distribute most audio. This class challenges the stereophonic-centricity of digital sound and instead focuses on the context of listening, interfacing and interacting with audio beyond 2 speakers. We will take a novel approach to spatialization by interfacing web technologies (Javascript, Web Audio, WebRTC) with multichannel audio to create room-scale interactive music and sonic spaces, and then make our findings publicly available through musical artifacts, open source tools, and documentation. We will explore conventional and unconventional loudspeaker arrangements ranging from 3 to 40 channels and how distribution and context affects music. Together, we will participate in a semester-long project examining the affordances of spatial and multichannel sound, designing and build open source tools to interface Tone.js, Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) and other multichannel techniques. Students will perform/install their final on the 40-channel speaker array at Dave&Gabe’s studio in Bushwick. Topics include 3D sound, open source, space and listening. Prerequisites: willingness to listen critically, some programming experience. No formal music training required.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 12 Weeks
ITPG-GT 2485-000 (22868)01/27/2020 – 04/20/2020 Mon6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Mann, Yotam
What do WhatsApp and Nelson Mandela have in common? How about Mr. Robot and the UN Council for Human Rights? When most people think “digital security”, they rarely think of these connections; but the connections are there. Digital security is much more than an industry buzzword— it encompasses techno-social idealism, open source development, and symbiotic coordination between sectors in tech, the humanities, and civic society. Certainly, we’re going to talk about Signal, Tor, VPNs, and OTR. But let’s dig even deeper. In this course, students will learn the principals of digital security; from end-to-end encryption, to circumvention technology, resilient communications, and beyond. Part lab exploration, part oral history, and part prototyping workshop, students will come away with the tools they need to undertake development projects with end-user security in mind; and foster an appreciation for digital security’s integral, timely, and often life-saving role in human rights struggles across the globe.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 8 Weeks
ITPG-GT 2188-000 (22879)01/27/2020 – 03/23/2020 Mon6:00 PM – 9:00 PM (Evening)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by Holmes, Harlo
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
You live with illusions. The nature of these illusions has long been described in mystical practices but is now increasing corroborated by modern research such as neuroscience, behavioral economics, social psychology, embodied cognition, and evolutionary psychology. What does this have to do with computational media? With technology, we have the ability to revisit some of these vestigial illusions that made sense in ancient environments but that might limit our personal happiness or the overall functioning of modern society. Will the computer’s ability to run more objective statistical analysis on data gathered tirelessly over time, across individuals and locations allow us to more accurately see ourselves and the world as it is. Can we build computer interfaces that give a fuller expression of our experience when we are not limited by an illusory view of ourselves? The insights into how into how to reach people more fully comes with a responsibility to then ask what should say to them. As the computers are able to understand us better than we understand ourselves will we relinquish control to them? At a practical level, the class looks at interfaces for digitizing signals from the less consciously controlled parts of your body using things like biosensors and cameras. It then moves on to opportunities for finding insights in from patterns in the mounds of already digitized expression you have produced every day for years, for instance in your email. Then we look at the possibility of bypassing consciousness with techniques like subliminal priming to affect behavior. Finally, we will look at how we can use things like browser extensions to manipulate shared media in an attempt to counter some filter bubble effects that emerge at a group level based on the illusions discussed in this class. This class will use skills from Physical Computing and ICM.
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
2 credits – 8 Weeks
ITPG-GT 2975-000 (22862)01/27/2020 – 03/23/2020 Mon3:00 PM – 5:00 PM (Late afternoon)at Brooklyn CampusInstructed by O’Sullivan, Daniel
Interactive Telecommunications (Graduate)
4 credits – 14 Weeks
’Art: Practice and Ideas’ examines key developments in the visual arts from modernity to the present. Focusing on the ways in which representations both create and reflect the values of a society, the course introduces students to the full range of expressive possibilities within the visual arts, covering painting and sculpture, as well as photography, film, video, conceptual art, and computer media. Topics to be covered include classical, modern, and postmodern relationships to politics, vision, the mind, the body, psychology, gender, difference, and technological innovation. Students will see and understand how artists have integrated perceptions of their historical moment, as well as physical and social space, into creative practices that have, in turn, had a significant impact on the culture of the time. Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent – satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures
Art Theory & Critical Studies (Undergraduate)
4 credits – 15 Weeks
ARTCR-UE 10-000 (12834)01/24/2022 – 05/09/2022 Mon1:00 PM – 4:00 PM (Early afternoon)at Washington SquareInstructed by Gookin, Kirby
The interactive project will illustrate students’ unique interests as well as evidence of competency within the field of interactive media production. Students are encouraged to develop their project around a theme previously explored in their work. Projects will be presented and critiqued repeatedly throughout the capstone process to peers, faculty, and industry professionals. A final presentation of the interactive project will be delivered late in the semester. The research paper (4000-5000 words) will focus on at least one aspect of the interactive project: e.g. culture, theory, philosophy, or history, the project context, and/or production methods. For example, students may write about their project’s reception by a set of specific users, or by users who are part of a larger culture, society, or market. It is important that students think beyond the project itself and situate it in a broader context accessible through research. The research paper will include an annotated bibliography of the books and other resources they used for their research. Students will also be guided in the production of an online portfolio to showcase their work and accomplishments to the outside world. Graduates will be evaluated by their portfolio when applying for jobs, graduate school, artist residencies, grants, and the like. Portfolios will be tailored to the demands of each student’s future goals and target audience.