Full-Time Faculty

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo

ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo is a mixed media artist whose work focuses on collections, memorialization and the act of leaving one’s digital imprint for the next generation. His work takes the form of video sculptures, augmented reality, immersive performances, large scale projections and vending machines that sell human DNA. His work plays upon this modern exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which Barcia-Colombo renders visually by “collecting” human portraits on video.

Gabriel was commissioned to be the first digital artist to show work at the Fulton Terminal Stop with the MTA Arts & Design program in New York City. His work has been featured in the Volta, Scope, and Art Mrkt art fairs, Victoria & Albert Museum as well as Grand Central Terminal and the New York Public Library. He received an Art and Technology grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where he created “The Hereafter Institute,” a company that questions the future of death rituals and memorials and their relationship to technology. His work is now part of the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Gabriel served as a member of the artist advisory board at the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as the education committee member at the Museum of Art and Design. In 2012 Gabriel gave a TED talk entitled “Capturing Memories in Video Art,” and in 2014 he gave another entitled “My DNA Vending Machine” and was awarded a Senior TED fellowship.

In 2016 Gabe founded Bunker.nyc a pop-up gallery showcasing emerging art made with technology. Bunker became the first pop up digital art gallery to open in the Sotheby’s Auction House in New York Summer 2017. Gabe is a New York Foundation for the Arts grant awardee and Adobe Augmented Reality Resident artist.

Katherine Dillon

ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR

Katherine holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Master’s of Architecture degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Sheldon Fellowship for post-graduate research at Cambridge University.

Katherine has been teaching at ITP since 2010 and has developed and taught : Visual Language (ITP), Design Fundamentals (IMA), UX Design (IMA), Designing Meaningful Interactions (ITP), Design for Change (ITP), and 100 Days of Making (ITP). Katherine also served on the ITPthesis faculty at ITP from 2013-2017.

Her professional career is defined by a focus on visual storytelling as applied through graphic design, data visualization, information design and user experience design. Katherine has been a partner and creative lead in three successful startup businesses: UncommonGoods, an e-commerce business, Dillon | Thompson, a digital media agency, and L2 Inc., a business intelligence firm acquired by Gartner Inc. in 2017. She started her professional career at ABC Television, where she served as ABC News’ Creative Director of Broadcast Graphics and as the founding General Manager of ABCNEWS.com. Dillon was awarded two Emmy awards for her creative work at ABC Television.

Pedro Galvao Cesar de Oliveira

VISITING ASSISTANT ARTS PROFESSOR

Pedro G. C. de Oliveira is Visiting Assistant Arts Professor of the Interactive Telecommunications Program. He received his MPS from NYU’s ITP and his Bachelors in Communications and Art Direction from ESPM in São Paulo, BR.

Pedro is a Brazilian Artist, Researcher, and Educator, whose research-driven practice inhabits the chaotic boundaries between digital and physical and tackles the social and political challenges of designing for and living with emerging technologies. Pedro’s work has been exhibited internationally, including Sotheby’s, New York; Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Monitor Digital, Guadalajara; SxSW, Austin; FabCafe, Tokyo; and has been recognized in publications such as The New York Times, Fast Company, CNN, Wired, ELLE, ARTE, Huffington Post, Core77, Vice and more.

Prior to his current appointment, Oliveira has developed curricula, taught, and conducted research at ITP and IMA at NYU. He has also worked in the advertising and creative industry for the past 15 years.

Thomas Igoe

ARTS PROFESSOR

Tom Igoe is the area head for physical computing courses, in which students learn to consider the motivations and actions of the people for whom they’re designing as the foundation for physical interaction design. His research interests also include networks, lighting design, the environmental and social impacts of technology development, and monkeys. He has written four books and a number of articles related to electronics and physical interaction. He is a co-founder of Arduino, an open-source microcontroller environment. He has consulted for various museums and interactive design companies as well. He hopes to visit Svalbard someday.

Daniel B. O’Sullivan

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Dan O’Sullivan is the Associate Dean for Emerging Media at the Tisch School of the Arts and the TBS Chair at ITP. Dan teaches classes about interfaces for your unconscious as well as fundamentals of computer programming. He coined the term physical computing and built the original curriculum, lab and show. Together with co-author Tom Igoe, he wrote the Physical Computing Book. During his tenure at ITP, he has also been an Eyebeam Artist in Residence, an Interval Research Fellow, and a research scientist for Intel, Microsoft and Verizon. Dan ran a new media consulting company for seven years before joining ITP full time in 1996. At Apple Computer, he worked at the Human Interface Group and was the original developer of QuickTimeVR. As a student and research scientist at NYU, he developed Dan’s Apartment, YORB, Marianne Rubberhead, and several other zany interactive television shows which are still remembered fondly by late night viewers of Manhattan Cable Television.

Courses taught:
Intro Computational Media
ICM for UG
Rest of You
Computational Cameras
Telepresence Hospitable Room (w/ Marianne Petit)

Allison Parrish

ASSISTANT ARTS PROFESSOR

Allison is a computer programmer, poet, educator and game designer whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom when language and computers meet, with a focus on artificial intelligence and computational creativity. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, where she earned her master’s degree in 2008.

Named “Best Maker of Poetry Bots” by the Village Voice in 2016, Allison’s computer-generated poetry has recently been published in Ninth Letter and Vetch. She is the author of “@Everyword: The Book” (Instar, 2015), which collects the output of her popular long-term automated writing project that tweeted every word in the English language. The word game “Rewordable,” designed by Allison in collaboration with Adam Simon and Tim Szetela, was published by Penguin Random House in August 2017 after a successful round of Kickstarter funding. Her first full-length book of computer-generated poetry, “Articulations,” was published by Counterpath in 2018.

Allison is originally from West Bountiful, Utah and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Luisa Pereira Hors Renner

ASSISTANT ARTS PROFESSOR

Luisa Pereira is an Assistant Arts Professor of Interactive Telecommunications. She holds a degree in Systems Engineering from Universidad Ort Uruguay and an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU ITP.

Pereira is an artist, musician, engineer, and designer. Her interactive music pieces have been exhibited internationally, at venues like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile, the New Museum’s art and technology incubator in New York City, the Loop Summit in Berlin, and the FILE electronic arts festival in São Paulo. Pereira’s professional work includes the creation of interactive and generative music installations for a range of clients, in collaboration with musicians like Björk, St. Vincent, and Little Dragon.

Prior to her current appointment, Pereira taught at ITP and was a Visiting Arts Professor at NYU Shanghai. She developed and taught “The Code of Music”, “Music Interaction Design”, and “New Interfaces for Musical Expression”. She also wrote curricula on creative computing for the NYC Department of Education and the Processing Foundation.

Marianne Petit

ARTS PROFESSOR, GLOBAL NETWORK ARTS PROFESSOR, ASSOCIATE VICE CHANCELLOR FOR GLOBAL NETWORK ACADEMIC PLANNING

Marianne R. Petit is an artist and educator whose work explores fairy tales, anatomical obsessions, graphic and narrative medicine, as well as collective storytelling practices through mechanical books that combine animation and paper craft. Her interests are in combining technology, traditional book arts, and sequential storytelling to create new forms of narrative for the 21st century. Her movable books can be found in numerous museum and library collections. Her artwork has appeared internationally in festivals and exhibitions, been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, Make, and Wired, and broadcast on IFC and PBS.

Marianne currently teaches courses in digital media, animation, paper arts, storytelling, and assistive technology. She was a co-founder of the NYU Shanghai Interactive Media Arts Program (IMA), served as its founding director from 2013-2016, and remained on its faculty through 2018. She has taught at the NYU Abu Dhabi campus, was a co-founder of the NYU Ability Project, and is a recipient of the 2016 NYU Distinguished Teaching Award. She currently serves as an Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Network Academic Planning.

Craig Protzel

ASSISTANT ARTS PROFESSOR

Craig is an interaction designer who teaches classes that focus on creating interactive computational spaces for education, exploration, and entertainment. His work often resides at the intersection of web development, computer science, design, multi-media production and storytelling. Craig’s professional experience includes working as a producer-editor in the post-production sector of the entertainment industry as well as a creative designer-developer for a range of companies including NYU Langone Medical, O’Reilly Media and Vimeo. Prior to this appointment at Tisch, Craig was an Assistant Professor of Interactive Media (IM) at NYU Abu Dhabi from 2014-2019 and also served as the Program Head there from 2016 – 2019. He worked to establish IM as a major and is excited to be leading the new Low Residency degree. Craig holds a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU and a Bachelor’s degree in Human Biology from Stanford University.

Matt Romein

ITP POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW; ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR

Matt Romein is an artist and performer based in Brooklyn, NY. His artistic work inhabits the intersection of live performance, generative computer art, and multi-media installation. He has worked in NYC’s downtown performance community as a sound and video designer while also making his own technology-centric live performances. His design work includes plural (love) by Haruna Lee + Jen Goma, Knot in My Name by Ita Segev, King by Neal Medlyn, and [50/50] old school animation by Peter Mills Weiss + Julia Mounsey. His design and performance work has been shown at BAM, Mana Contemporary, Soho Rep, The Public Theater, 3LD Art + Technology Center, and more.

A self-taught coder, he has developed and designed large scale visual and interactive installations that have been shown at Sundance’s New Frontier Program in Park City, Utah, IDFA’s Doclab in Amsterdam, and SXSW in Austin, Texas, among others. He has had artist residencies and received grants from Pioneer Works, Google, CultureHub, Signal Culture, NYU, and more. He is a 2016 graduate of NYU’s ITP.

Sarah Rothberg

ASSISTANT ARTS PROFESSOR

Sarah Rothberg is an Assistant Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) / Interactive Media Arts (IMA). SR holds a BA with High Honors in English Literature with a minor in Creative Writing from UC Berkeley, and an MPS from ITP.

SR is an artist who works with interactive media, most often with immersive experiences like virtual/augmented reality and computer mediated performance. SR’s artwork has been shown internationally in art/tech spaces ranging from Tribeca to bitforms gallery, CES, and Sotheby’s. SR’s work engages with embodiment, the impact of new media, and the relationship between the personal and complex systems.

Prior to joining ITP as faculty, SR was a research fellow at ITP, an adjunct professor at ITP/IMA and the New School, co-developed and led an XR masterclass at the Onassis STEGI Foundation, and designed and facilitated speculative futures workshops at various colleges and institutions nationwide. SR is the featured artist and co-creator for Apple’s [AR]t lab, which runs at Apple stores internationally, has been a NEW INC member with Rhizome/Bell Lab’s Experiments with Art and Technology track, and an artist-in-residence with Harvestwoks, Mana Contemporary, and Adobe.

Daniel Rozin

ARTS PROFESSOR

Daniel is an artist, educator and developer working in the area of interactive digital art. As an interactive artist, Rozin creates installations and sculptures that have the unique ability to change and respond to the presence and point of view of the viewer. In many cases the viewer becomes the contents of the piece and in others the viewer is invited to take an active role in the creation of the piece. Even though computers are often used in Rozin’s work, they are seldom visible. As an educator he is an Arts Professor at ITP where he teaches classes related to art, fabrication and physical computing. He was born in Jerusalem and formally trained as an industrial designer. His work has been exhibited widely with solo exhibitions in the US and internationally and featured in publications such as The New York Times, Wired, ID, Spectrum and Leonardo. His work has earned him numerous awards including Prix Ars Electronica, ID Design Review and the Chrysler Design Award.

Courses taught:
Intro to Computational Media
Intro to Physical Computing
Project Development Studio (Danny Rozin)
The World-Pixel by Pixel
Toy Design Workshop
Kinetic Sculpture Workshop
Designing for Digital Fabrication

Daniel Shiffman

ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR

Dan is on a mission to share code with the world. (In a fun, approachable way.) On his YouTube channel, The Coding Train, he publishes “creative coding” tutorials with subjects ranging from the basics of programming languages like JavaScript (with p5.js) and Java (with Processing) to generative algorithms like physics simulation, computer vision, and data visualization. In his “spare time”, he works as an Associate Arts Professor at the ITP / Tisch School of the Arts / NYU. He is a director of The Processing Foundation and the author of Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction and The Nature of Code, an open source book about simulating natural phenomenon with code.

Courses taught:
Creative Javascript
Software Engineering High School Internships
Under the Dome
Nature of Code: Cosmos
Face It
Programming from A to Z
The Nature of Code Studio
Procedural Painting
Introduction to Computational Media
Big Screens

Clay Shirky

FULL-TIME FACULTY

Clay Shirky is today’s leading voice on the social and economic impact of internet technologies. Considered one of the finest thinkers on the internet revolution, Clay provides an insightful and optimistic view of networks, social software, and technology’s effects on society. Writing extensively about the Internet since 1996, he is the author of the best-selling Here Comes Everybody and Cognitive Surplus. In Here Comes Everybody—selected by Guardian as one of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of all time—Clay explored how organizations and industries are being upended by open networks, collaboration, and user appropriation of content production and dissemination. Cognitive Surplus reveals how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world.

Clay holds a joint appointment at New York University, as an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and as a Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Journalism Department. He is also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and was the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer at Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy in 2010.

Over the years, he has had regular columns in Business 2.0 and FEED, among other publications, and his writings have appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Computerworld, and Foreign Affairs. In addition to writing, Clay has a consulting practice focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web.

Prior to his appointment at NYU, Shirky was a partner at the investment firm the Accelerator Group, an international investment company. Shirky was the original Professor of New Media in the Media Studies department at Hunter College, where he created the department’s first undergraduate and graduate offerings in new media and helped design the current MFA in Integrated Media Arts program.

Courses taught:
Hacking Higher Ed
Conversation, Cooperation, Collaboration
Design Expo
Social Software
Design for UNICEF
Thinking about Networks
Network Effects
Studio (Social Software)
Social Facts: Trust
User Generated
Designing Conversational Spaces

Shawn Van Every

ASSOCIATE ARTS PROFESSOR

Shawn is a researcher, professor, and consultant. His focus is on emerging technologies related to media creation, distribution, and interaction. His projects generally involve the development of tools that help to make low-cost media making, distribution, and interactivity possible. Specifically, he works with online audio/video and mobile devices. His teaching is varied and includes courses on participatory and social media, programming, mobile technologies, and interactive telephony. Recently Shawn was honored with the David Payne Carter award for excellence in teaching. He has demonstrated, exhibited, and presented work at many conferences and technology demonstrations including O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony, O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology, ACM Multimedia, Vloggercon, and Strong Angel II. He was a co-organizer of the Open Media Developers Summit, Beyond Broadcast (2006), and iPhoneDevCamp NYC. Additionally, Shawn runs a consultancy to help companies better utilize technology for putting audio and video on the internet. His clients have ranged from Disney and Morgan Stanley to many start-ups. Shawn holds a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU and a Bachelor’s degree in Media Study from SUNY at Buffalo.

Courses taught:
Always On, Always Connected
Comm Lab: Web
Live Web
Intro to Computational Media
Mobile Me(dia)

Mimi Yin

ASSISTANT ARTS PROFESSOR

Mimi Yin is an artist and designer with a background in music, dance and interaction design. She is currently a teacher at ITP in the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She graduated with a B.A. in Music from Yale University and an M.P.S from ITP/NYU. Her work explores programmatic approaches to composition and improvisation combining traditional forms with chance operations to create new structures. She has applied these techniques to wide range of media from poetry, rhythm, movement and choreography to shaping online discussion. She is also the lead designer of Ponder, a social learning platform focused on developing higher-order literacy.

Courses taught:
Composing in Code
Introduction to Computational Media
Big Screens

Sharon De La Cruz

ASSISTANT ARTS PROFESSOR

Sharon Lee De La Cruz is a prolific artist and activist in New York City. She earned a BFA from The Cooper Union, is a Fulbright scholar, and obtained her Masters at NYU’s ITP program. She has shown in numerous venues throughout the New York metropolitan area, notably during Armory Week 2012 at the Bronx River Arts Center. She has been awarded residencies at Wonder Women and 365 Days of Print. Additionally, De La Cruz has designed a limited edition perfume bottle for Calvin Klein’s CK One Shock Street Edition For Her.

Yeseul Song

ASSISTANT ARTS PROFESSOR, FALL 2019 HIR, 2018-2019 RESIDENT

Yeseul Song is a South Korean born, New York based artist who uses technology, interaction, and participation as art media. She uncovers creative possibilities of non-visual senses and creates new sensory languages using technology and interaction to advocate inclusive and equitable views of the world. With the belief that art needs to be accessible to everyone, she explores and occupies non-traditional art spaces to challenge commonly held ideas about access and accessibility of art. She’s best known for Invisible Sculptures (2018-2021), a series of non-visual experiential sculptures made of sound, warmth, air, smell, and thought. The whole series was shown at her major solo exhibition at Clayarch Museum in South Korea in 2021.

She has received residencies/fellowships from the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD Museum), More Art, Mana Contemporary, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, Future Imagination Fund, and NYU ITP. She was an Art & Code track member of New Museum’s NEW INC in partnership with Rhizome.org, and her work has been supported by Wave Farm, NYSCA, Magnum Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, DUMBO District Improvement, and Embassy of the Republic of Korea, and more. Yeseul’s work won the iF Design Award and Communication Arts Interactive Award, and has been shown at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum, Fort Mason Art and Culture Center, New York Live Arts, CultureHub, and Art in Odd Places, among others.

Yeseul is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU ITP/IMA, and is an alum of ITP, School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), and Yonsei University.

David Rios

TEACHER

Rios is an artist and educator. His research interests include physical computing, traditional and digital fabrication processes, educational systems, and puzzles. He holds a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard University and an M.P.S. from ITP / NYU.

His work utilizes physical computing and coding to make a variety of playful interactions, performative devices, and educational installations. He has managed the 3D print and laser cutting facilities at the Parsons Making Center and taught at the City College of New York. He is currently a Teacher at ITP.