Join the Residency Info Session on Thursday, April 30, 3-4pm at Room 426.
Come learn about what the residency is from Yeseul, Shawn, and current residents!
Each spring, ITP graduating students are invited to apply for a Research Resident Fellowship for the coming academic year. These fellowships are academic appointments, not staff positions. They are meant to help you advance your research and scholarship by collaborating with ITP/IMA full-time faculty and being exposed to a wide variety of academic topics, while contributing to the ITP/IMA community. Ideal applicants for the research residency are typically graduating ITP students who enjoy helping their fellow students and are interested in seeing academia from outside the student role. Past residents have used it as a networking base to launch a freelance business, start-up, build a career in the arts, pursue research, or prepare themselves for academia.
What is the ITP/IMA Research Residency?
The Research Residency consists of three traditional components of academia:
1. Academic/Curricular Contributions: ITP/IMA Residents have the opportunity to interface with faculty on a number of key curricular areas, and thus to gain hands-on experience in the development of ITP/IMA’s ever evolving, dynamic curriculum. To this end, Residents can expect to participate in areas such as:
- Design Lab
- Coding Lab
- HyperCinema Lab
- Fabrication Shops
- Electronics Shops
- IMA Community
- Ability Project
A significant part of being a Resident involves supporting students in foundation classes and thesis. This typically takes the form of office hours, help sessions or studio hours. For Thesis/Capstone/Applications/Capstone, this will involve in-class time.
2. Departmental Community Service: Residents have the opportunity of taking a direct role in the technical infrastructure and scholarly activities of ITP and IMA. Some examples could be: developing or maintaining various support systems for students, contributing to the design, coding, hyper, or doc labs, activating the soft lab, feedback collective, website design, summer youth outreach, offering workshops on particular topics, helping with class shows/events, new initiatives, etc… Residents also help produce the ITP/IMA shows, Thesis/Capstone Week, and special events.
3. Creative Research / Professional Work: Residents are typically engaged in their own or collaborative art/research practice, and this is considered a key area. This could be traditional research, artistic endeavors, product development, community building, activism, entrepreneurial endeavors, software development, or a myriad of other possibilities. The residency offers time, space, and resources a chance to continue and further that work, with the added benefit of having ITP/IMA full-time faculty as mentors or sometimes, collaborators. In past years, Resident cohorts have organized a show of their work at the end of the residency. This is optional, and up to each resident cohort to coordinate.
The balance of these components is unevenly distributed over the year. A good amount of time in the Fall and Spring will be occupied with curricular support and related activities of the department. Summer is dedicated research time.
Appointment
Appointment Period:
The appointment period for the Residency is 8/14/26 (Friday) – 7/31/27 (Friday).
TImeline: Research Residents will be chosen by the faculty in the early summer. The role starts on August 18, 2026. It is one academic year appointment. The appointment start date is not negotiable — we cannot make exceptions for a later start for summer travel, attendance at outside activities (such are Burning Man) or a summer job — if you are offered the opportunity to become a Resident, and you cannot start on the required date, the offer will be withdrawn.
Where: All residents have desk and production space in-person at 370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, New York.
Stipend: The stipend that comes with the Residency for the period above is $40,000.
Benefits: Residents can purchase the University’s health coverage at employee rates. Some lending agencies will allow a deferment of student loans for this type of “postdoc” position that varies by company. You have an option to enroll in Commuter Plans. See this benefits guide.
How Do I Apply to the Residency?
Application Form:
APPLY NOW! (Log-in with NYU Account)
Info Session:
Thursday, April 30, 3-4pm (Room 426)
Selection Process: After reviewing application materials, faculty area heads will meet with select applicants, as described above. They will make recommendations as to candidates supporting their respective areas. Staff and current residents may be consulted as to the candidates’ qualifications as well. Finally, a committee made of the chair and faculty resident supervisors will make final selections.
Criteria: Residents are chosen based primarily on how the applicant’s strengths for service, tutorial, and research line up with the department’s current needs and interests and how the applicant’s career could be improved by the experience.
Important Information
Time Commitment: Resident positions are half-time, 20/hours per week. If you want, you’re welcome to use the floor resources for your research beyond the hours. Residents’ hours must overlap with students, supervisors, and administration as necessary, but need not be completely traditional. Note: while residents are typically completely free to work on their own projects in the summer, that work is expected to happen on the ITP floor.
Full-time job: Given the activities taking place at ITP/IMA, it is not possible to hold a full-time job while being a Resident. There’s no exception. If you secure a full-time position, you should immediately communicate it with the faculty supervisor and resign the Residency.
Residency Should Be Your Top Priority: Freelancing or working part-time is permitted, as long as you can be present on the floor and engage with ITP/IMA mainly around working/student hours. The Residency is a serious commitment and we expect it to take priority. If you cannot make time for the Residency — if you cannot be on site at ITP/IMA as needed and provide support where and when it is needed because of competing job priorities, the Residency is not for you.
Supervision & Meetings: We look for self-directed, self-starting residents. There are regular residents meetings with the ITP faculty resident supervisor to report on your progress. The residents’ meetings are mandatory. For academic/curricular contributions and departmental community service, residents will work with the relevant members of the faculty. Some collaborative research projects might involve faculty members.
For International Students: NYU is not currently an “E-Verify” employer, if you are invited to become a Resident, your “term” will be dictated by the end date of your OPT which is often a few weeks earlier in the summer than the actual end date of the appointment. There is no STEM extension through NYU.
OPT:
OPT is a valid pathway for an international person (if invited) to become a Resident. Keep in mind that since NYU is not part of e-Verify the OPT STEM extension is not an option in this case — therefore the OPT end date is the date at which the Resident appointment must end. Not to penalize those with earlier end dates due to OPT, we adjust the Residency and payment schedule so as not to penalize you financially for having to end early in those cases. In other words, you’ll receive the full stipend during the period that you are legally allowed to work as long as you can work until the end of the Spring semester.