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Peiqi SU Fri 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:7-Second Half
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2 pts |
Syllabus
This 2-pt course aims to provide students with the critical thinking and practical skills for creating effective and compelling interfaces. We will dissect what a compelling user experience is, apply proven research techniques for approaching and defining UX problems and apply design frameworks including mapping and testing techniques. The class format will include lectures, discussion, in-class design exercises and a final project.
Week 1: what is UX
Week 2: inclusive research methods
Week 3: frameworks for defining a problem
Week 4: understanding behavior and motivation
Week 5: mapping flow and visual strategies, final project intro
Week 6: testing methods and future UX
Week 7: final projects
This 2-pt course aims to provide students with the critical thinking and practical skills for creating effective and compelling interfaces. We will dissect what a compelling user experience is, apply proven research techniques for approaching and defining UX problems and apply design frameworks including mapping and testing techniques. The class format will include lectures, discussion, in-class design exercises and a final project.
Week 1: what is UX
Week 2: inclusive research methods
Week 3: frameworks for defining a problem
Week 4: understanding behavior and motivation
Week 5: mapping flow and visual strategies, final project intro
Week 6: testing methods and future UX
Week 7: final projects
Daniel Rozin Wed 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:14
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4 pts |
Syllabus Tags: design, fabrication |
The ability to digitally fabricate parts and whole pieces directly from our computers or design files used to be an exotic and expensive option not really suitable for student or designer projects, but changes in this field in the past 5 years have brought these capabilities much closer to our means, especially as ITP students. ITP and NYU now offer us access to laser cutting, CNC routing, and 3D stereolithography. In this class, we will learn how to design for and operate these machines. Emphasis will be put on designing functional parts that can fit into a larger project or support other components as well as being successful on a conceptual and aesthetic level. In this class, we will discover methods to design projects on CAD applications for total control of the result, and we will develop algorithmic ways to create designs from software (Processing) to take advantage of the ability to make parts and projects that are unique, customizable, dependent on external data or random. The class will include 3 assignments to create projects using the three machines (laser, router, 3D) and the opportunity to work on a final project.
The ability to digitally fabricate parts and whole pieces directly from our computers or design files used to be an exotic and expensive option not really suitable for student or designer projects, but changes in this field in the past 5 years have brought these capabilities much closer to our means, especially as ITP students. ITP and NYU now offer us access to laser cutting, CNC routing, and 3D stereolithography. In this class, we will learn how to design for and operate these machines. Emphasis will be put on designing functional parts that can fit into a larger project or support other components as well as being successful on a conceptual and aesthetic level. In this class, we will discover methods to design projects on CAD applications for total control of the result, and we will develop algorithmic ways to create designs from software (Processing) to take advantage of the ability to make parts and projects that are unique, customizable, dependent on external data or random. The class will include 3 assignments to create projects using the three machines (laser, router, 3D) and the opportunity to work on a final project.
Ali Santana Mon 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:14
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4 pts |
Syllabus
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 using their resourcefulness to create costumes from found materials, and performance as an exploration in creative expression using new media and technology. Students will be introduced to ideas surrounding abstract storytelling, experimental audio + video production, and A/V performance using a combination of technical and hands-on approaches.
This course requires CL: Hypercinema or equivalent experience.
Prerequisite: CL: Hypercinema (ITPG-GT 2004)
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 using their resourcefulness to create costumes from found materials, and performance as an exploration in creative expression using new media and technology. Students will be introduced to ideas surrounding abstract storytelling, experimental audio + video production, and A/V performance using a combination of technical and hands-on approaches.
This course requires CL: Hypercinema or equivalent experience.
Prerequisite: CL: Hypercinema (ITPG-GT 2004)
Art Kleiner | Juliette Powell Tues 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:14
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4 pts |
Tags: discussion, reading, theory |
This course covers the next several years of evolution in technology, culture, and other trends. It uses scenario planning, a technique for considering complex interrelationships that can’t be predicted, distinguishing predetermined elements from critical uncertainties, and exploring the underlying patterns that influence events. Students will conduct original research on significant trends, use those trends to develop compelling, sophisticated, plausible stories about possible futures, and present the futures – and the strategies they suggest – to a public audience. The course will take place at a pivotal moment of historical uncertainty: recovering from a global pandemic, with AI and other digital technologies crossing a threshold, and dramatic political and economic tensions. All of these, and more, affect media development – and are deeply affected by them. The goal of the course is to enable you to make more robust decisions now in the face of uncertainty — applicable to planning for technological change, starting a business, plotting a career or making major life decisions. This class has developed a longstanding following at ITP because it helps us make sense of complex issues without oversimplifying them. In a climate of candid, respectful discussion and debate, the class explores theories about system dynamics, long-wave organizational and societal change, and economic and technological development.
Addendum from former student:
As I wake up to the serious news of Ukraine, I am reminded of the prediction that I and my classmates Jerllin Cheng and Susanne Forchheimer made while taking a class at NYU-ITP called “Future of New Media,” taught by the great Art Kleiner , which is easily one of the most important classes I’ve ever taken in my life. In this class, Art taught us the craft of prediction in order to make tech art/products that speak to the near future.
It was 2014, and using his strategic workflow, he asked our class to predict what would 2020 be like. Although no one predicted a pandemic, some did predict things likes smart homes etc. But our group was bold enough to predict a “Cyber Cold War,” given Russia’s annexation of Crimea and other developments in China going on during the time of the class. Our presentation went into interesting detail that speculated the end of an open internet, and a further lockdown of borders and increase in video chats for that reason (which did happen in 2020 but for the pandemic), but let’s hope that is not the case now!
Certainly no fear-mongering happening here- just wanted to share that we made a pretty good prediction and that Art Kleiner’s method is incredible (buy his books). Our hearts are with Ukraine and the world.
This course covers the next several years of evolution in technology, culture, and other trends. It uses scenario planning, a technique for considering complex interrelationships that can’t be predicted, distinguishing predetermined elements from critical uncertainties, and exploring the underlying patterns that influence events. Students will conduct original research on significant trends, use those trends to develop compelling, sophisticated, plausible stories about possible futures, and present the futures – and the strategies they suggest – to a public audience. The course will take place at a pivotal moment of historical uncertainty: recovering from a global pandemic, with AI and other digital technologies crossing a threshold, and dramatic political and economic tensions. All of these, and more, affect media development – and are deeply affected by them. The goal of the course is to enable you to make more robust decisions now in the face of uncertainty — applicable to planning for technological change, starting a business, plotting a career or making major life decisions. This class has developed a longstanding following at ITP because it helps us make sense of complex issues without oversimplifying them. In a climate of candid, respectful discussion and debate, the class explores theories about system dynamics, long-wave organizational and societal change, and economic and technological development.
Addendum from former student:
As I wake up to the serious news of Ukraine, I am reminded of the prediction that I and my classmates Jerllin Cheng and Susanne Forchheimer made while taking a class at NYU-ITP called “Future of New Media,” taught by the great Art Kleiner , which is easily one of the most important classes I’ve ever taken in my life. In this class, Art taught us the craft of prediction in order to make tech art/products that speak to the near future.
It was 2014, and using his strategic workflow, he asked our class to predict what would 2020 be like. Although no one predicted a pandemic, some did predict things likes smart homes etc. But our group was bold enough to predict a “Cyber Cold War,” given Russia’s annexation of Crimea and other developments in China going on during the time of the class. Our presentation went into interesting detail that speculated the end of an open internet, and a further lockdown of borders and increase in video chats for that reason (which did happen in 2020 but for the pandemic), but let’s hope that is not the case now!
Certainly no fear-mongering happening here- just wanted to share that we made a pretty good prediction and that Art Kleiner’s method is incredible (buy his books). Our hearts are with Ukraine and the world.
Tanika Williams Fri 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:7-First Half
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2 pts |
Syllabus
On Becoming is a two-part professional development course. Finding Your Artist Voice (part one) filters your fears and apprehensions so you can declare your creative process and practice courageously. The seven-week system will help you proclaim your artistic identity, theoretical underpinnings, and trajectory with clarity, precision, and commanding written language. Students will build personalized masterplans and workflows to facilitate measurable professional growth while learning to catalog and archive their work. Students will develop a working artist biography, artist statement, and fully documented work samples. For the final project, students will be supported in selecting and submitting a post-graduate fellowship, residency, grant, or open call!
On Becoming is a two-part professional development course. Finding Your Artist Voice (part one) filters your fears and apprehensions so you can declare your creative process and practice courageously. The seven-week system will help you proclaim your artistic identity, theoretical underpinnings, and trajectory with clarity, precision, and commanding written language. Students will build personalized masterplans and workflows to facilitate measurable professional growth while learning to catalog and archive their work. Students will develop a working artist biography, artist statement, and fully documented work samples. For the final project, students will be supported in selecting and submitting a post-graduate fellowship, residency, grant, or open call!
John Henry Thompson | Shindy Johnson Tues 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:7-Second Half
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2 pts |
Tags: data, visualization |
This course will use the open source The COVID-19 Impact Project as an entry point to explore humanizing data on systemic inequity and injustice on a global and local scale.
In this course we will:
● Explore and invent creative uses of data for advocacy and change.
● Discover how data flows from public github repositories and tools needed to visualize the data.
● Review other data-centric open source projects for the public good and discuss the questions they are trying to answer or problems they are trying to solve.
● Examine and draw inspiration from historical and contemporary data visualizations developed by advocates for social justice and the public good.
● Use data visualization as a scaffold to explore ways to support community driven mourning and memorialization after mass death events.
Students can choose to participate as creatives, artists, javascript coders, p5js explorers, UI/UX designers, citizen journalists, data science explorers or social justice advocates.
Course Outline
● Open Source Projects for the Public Good
● Data: Sourcing, Humanizing and Creating Visual Narratives from Data
● Storytelling with and from Data
● Data storytelling as a scaffold to support grief, ritual and memorialization after mass death events
** Students wishing to pursue their final projects beyond the class will be provided with information about resources at NYU for supporting student projects that amplify underrepresented narratives.
** Students wishing to continue their participation in The COVID-19 Impact Project after the course ends should notify us as we are seeking grant funding to implement viable concepts.
This course will use the open source The COVID-19 Impact Project as an entry point to explore humanizing data on systemic inequity and injustice on a global and local scale.
In this course we will:
● Explore and invent creative uses of data for advocacy and change.
● Discover how data flows from public github repositories and tools needed to visualize the data.
● Review other data-centric open source projects for the public good and discuss the questions they are trying to answer or problems they are trying to solve.
● Examine and draw inspiration from historical and contemporary data visualizations developed by advocates for social justice and the public good.
● Use data visualization as a scaffold to explore ways to support community driven mourning and memorialization after mass death events.
Students can choose to participate as creatives, artists, javascript coders, p5js explorers, UI/UX designers, citizen journalists, data science explorers or social justice advocates.
Course Outline
● Open Source Projects for the Public Good
● Data: Sourcing, Humanizing and Creating Visual Narratives from Data
● Storytelling with and from Data
● Data storytelling as a scaffold to support grief, ritual and memorialization after mass death events
** Students wishing to pursue their final projects beyond the class will be provided with information about resources at NYU for supporting student projects that amplify underrepresented narratives.
** Students wishing to continue their participation in The COVID-19 Impact Project after the course ends should notify us as we are seeking grant funding to implement viable concepts.
Elliot Cole Mon 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:7-Second Half
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2 pts |
Syllabus
Students will gain competency in the music production and performance software Ableton Live through a series of creative exercises. These exercises are heuristics in the sense that they’re designed to help students find well-formed musical solutions quickly and improvisationally, without presupposing a background in musical theory or performance.
I’ll introduce these technical topics alongside their artistic applications: audio editing (collage), midi (rhythm/melody/harmony), synthesis and effects (sound design), randomness (generative systems design), recording, and interfacing with external sensors, controllers and data (instrument design).
Weekly assignments will solidify skills explored in class.
Students will gain competency in the music production and performance software Ableton Live through a series of creative exercises. These exercises are heuristics in the sense that they’re designed to help students find well-formed musical solutions quickly and improvisationally, without presupposing a background in musical theory or performance.
I’ll introduce these technical topics alongside their artistic applications: audio editing (collage), midi (rhythm/melody/harmony), synthesis and effects (sound design), randomness (generative systems design), recording, and interfacing with external sensors, controllers and data (instrument design).
Weekly assignments will solidify skills explored in class.
Ziv Schneider Oct 26, Nov 3 Sat 12:10pm to 6:25pm in > Sun 12:10pm to 6:25pm in Meetings:S-Special
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1 pts |
Masks have been used around the world since antiquity for ceremonial and practical purposes, as devices for protection, disguise, entertainment and bodily transformation, made to be worn or displayed. Sociologist Erving Goffman wrote about the everyday life as a masked theatrical performance. The performative aspect of our lives today is ever so present in our use of social media, where we present a curated version ourselves for the immediate visual consumption of others. In our `Selfies`, we can assume a multitude of identities and characters. Recent tools and platforms have evolved social media portraiture to an art form and have created new opportunities for artists to create and distribute interactive augmentations, forming new relationships between artists and viewers. This class explores the developing language of social media portraiture enhanced by Augmented Reality. Students will: – review masks in art history, leading up to today – ideate, design and develop an interactive mask (AKA effects/lenses/filters) – learn to use the Meta Spark software to create AR effects.
This course requires CL: Hypercinema or equivalent experience.
Masks have been used around the world since antiquity for ceremonial and practical purposes, as devices for protection, disguise, entertainment and bodily transformation, made to be worn or displayed. Sociologist Erving Goffman wrote about the everyday life as a masked theatrical performance. The performative aspect of our lives today is ever so present in our use of social media, where we present a curated version ourselves for the immediate visual consumption of others. In our `Selfies`, we can assume a multitude of identities and characters. Recent tools and platforms have evolved social media portraiture to an art form and have created new opportunities for artists to create and distribute interactive augmentations, forming new relationships between artists and viewers. This class explores the developing language of social media portraiture enhanced by Augmented Reality. Students will: – review masks in art history, leading up to today – ideate, design and develop an interactive mask (AKA effects/lenses/filters) – learn to use the Meta Spark software to create AR effects.
This course requires CL: Hypercinema or equivalent experience.
Yuliya Parshina-Kottas Fri 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:14
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4 pts |
Syllabus Tags: dataviz, journalism, visualization |
This course is designed to provide an overview of visual storytelling in the newsroom. We will explore a variety of narrative formats and design principles, learn about reporting techniques for visual stories, touch on the best practices and ethics of journalism and work on collaborative exercises and assignments.
This course is designed to provide an overview of visual storytelling in the newsroom. We will explore a variety of narrative formats and design principles, learn about reporting techniques for visual stories, touch on the best practices and ethics of journalism and work on collaborative exercises and assignments.
Phil Caridi | Noah Pivnick Fri 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:14
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4 pts |
Syllabus
At its most wondrous, ITP is a lavish imaginarium rich with abundant opportunity for individual creative expression. But outside the walls of 370 Jay, reality awaits. Post graduation most creative engagements will be work for hire compounded by the unique wants, needs, and desires of multiple parties, not least of which: the client.
This is a production-focused class predicated on satisfying a brief from a real-world client. The brief will likely come with its own set of specific, prescriptive requirements. As a collective, we will be tasked with the design and fabrication of an experiential interactive the scale and depth of which warrants a life of its own beyond the confines of ITP. Together, we will engage in a semester-long exercise in project planning, resource allocation, project management, and client relations born of concrete expectations and deliverables. We’re putting the Professional back into Master of Professional Studies.
This class is open to 2nd year graduate students only. To be considered you must submit an application. Students will interview and submit a portfolio for review. Ideal candidates are multidisciplinary; the sum of their contribution to the class will be a function of more than one kind of work. Resource scheduling and allocation are a significant part of this exercise, ensuring the load is distributed equitably across all class members. We’re targeting 2nd year students and running the class in the fall so as to give students an opportunity to develop skills and practices that hold them in good stead once thesis transitions to production in the spring.
At its most wondrous, ITP is a lavish imaginarium rich with abundant opportunity for individual creative expression. But outside the walls of 370 Jay, reality awaits. Post graduation most creative engagements will be work for hire compounded by the unique wants, needs, and desires of multiple parties, not least of which: the client.
This is a production-focused class predicated on satisfying a brief from a real-world client. The brief will likely come with its own set of specific, prescriptive requirements. As a collective, we will be tasked with the design and fabrication of an experiential interactive the scale and depth of which warrants a life of its own beyond the confines of ITP. Together, we will engage in a semester-long exercise in project planning, resource allocation, project management, and client relations born of concrete expectations and deliverables. We’re putting the Professional back into Master of Professional Studies.
This class is open to 2nd year graduate students only. To be considered you must submit an application. Students will interview and submit a portfolio for review. Ideal candidates are multidisciplinary; the sum of their contribution to the class will be a function of more than one kind of work. Resource scheduling and allocation are a significant part of this exercise, ensuring the load is distributed equitably across all class members. We’re targeting 2nd year students and running the class in the fall so as to give students an opportunity to develop skills and practices that hold them in good stead once thesis transitions to production in the spring.
Daniel Shiffman Wed 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:14
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4 pts |
Syllabus Tags: programming, textual_analysis |
This course is a survey of programming strategies and techniques for the procedural analysis and generation of text-based data. Topics include analyzing text based on its statistical properties, automated text production using probabilistic methods, and text visualization. Students will learn server-side and client-side JavaScript programming and build single-page web applications as well as bots for social media networks. Additionally, this course will also include examples on how to interface with the latest open-source and commercial machine learning models for text and image generation. The writing of this course description may or may not have been assisted by one of these so-called “AI” models The course will include weekly homework coding exercises and an open-ended final project.
This course is a survey of programming strategies and techniques for the procedural analysis and generation of text-based data. Topics include analyzing text based on its statistical properties, automated text production using probabilistic methods, and text visualization. Students will learn server-side and client-side JavaScript programming and build single-page web applications as well as bots for social media networks. Additionally, this course will also include examples on how to interface with the latest open-source and commercial machine learning models for text and image generation. The writing of this course description may or may not have been assisted by one of these so-called “AI” models The course will include weekly homework coding exercises and an open-ended final project.
Dan O'Sullivan Wed 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:14
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4 pts |
Syllabus
This class asks students to think about thinking. Based on first person introspection, meditation and readings in psychology, students will examine the experience of their minds. Then we look at how computation works as a medium to capture and share that experience. Class time is evenly divided between conceptual discussions around psychology of media, looking at student work and learning coding skills for the following week.
On the technical side, the class gently picks up from ICM moving away from P5 to create 2D interfaces with vanilla javascript in an environment of Visual Studio Code, Github and Copilot. It moves to 3D using the three.js library, and to 4D by adding persistence (and sharing) using Firebase databases. With machine learning APIs and optionally Python Colab Notebooks the class then moves into hyperdimensional space using embeddings to navigate and compare within it. Finally the class returns to 2D or 3D to reach your body using UMAP dimensions reduction and embodied interfaces like VR, ML5 or P5LiveMedia. These are all web technologies (game engines will not work for this class). Each week students are expected to produce a quick sketch playing with the tech and imagine its application as a tool of improved communication.
In tandem with this technical journey each week there are conceptual readings and prompts asking students about how the technology aligns with the way they think. In a short blog post students are asked to take a critical look for the shortcomings of existing computational media and for ways we can make better media for connecting people with a better understanding of the mind. At the end of the semester students work on a final project using some or all of the concepts and technologies from the class.
Prerequisite: ICM / ICM: Media (ITPG-GT 2233 / ITPG-GT 2048)
This class asks students to think about thinking. Based on first person introspection, meditation and readings in psychology, students will examine the experience of their minds. Then we look at how computation works as a medium to capture and share that experience. Class time is evenly divided between conceptual discussions around psychology of media, looking at student work and learning coding skills for the following week.
On the technical side, the class gently picks up from ICM moving away from P5 to create 2D interfaces with vanilla javascript in an environment of Visual Studio Code, Github and Copilot. It moves to 3D using the three.js library, and to 4D by adding persistence (and sharing) using Firebase databases. With machine learning APIs and optionally Python Colab Notebooks the class then moves into hyperdimensional space using embeddings to navigate and compare within it. Finally the class returns to 2D or 3D to reach your body using UMAP dimensions reduction and embodied interfaces like VR, ML5 or P5LiveMedia. These are all web technologies (game engines will not work for this class). Each week students are expected to produce a quick sketch playing with the tech and imagine its application as a tool of improved communication.
In tandem with this technical journey each week there are conceptual readings and prompts asking students about how the technology aligns with the way they think. In a short blog post students are asked to take a critical look for the shortcomings of existing computational media and for ways we can make better media for connecting people with a better understanding of the mind. At the end of the semester students work on a final project using some or all of the concepts and technologies from the class.
Prerequisite: ICM / ICM: Media (ITPG-GT 2233 / ITPG-GT 2048)
Phil Caridi Mon 12:10pm to 2:40pm in Meetings:7-First Half
Phil Caridi Wed 09:30am to 12:00pm in Meetings:7-Second Half
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2 pts |
Syllabus Tags: fabrication, prototyping, the shop, woodworking |
Time to get your hands dirty. Prototypes need to be created, motors have to be mounted, enclosures must be built. Understanding how things are fabricated makes you a better maker. But hardware is hard. You can’t simply copy and paste an object or working device (not yet anyway), fabrication skills and techniques need to be developed and practiced in order to create quality work. You learn to make by doing. In this class, you will become familiar and comfortable with all the ITP shop has to offer. We will cover everything from basic hand tools to the beginnings of digital fabrication. You will learn to use the right tool for the job. There will be weekly assignments created to develop your fabrication techniques. There will be in class lectures, demos, and building assignments. Emphasis will be put on good design practices, material choice, and craftsmanship.
Time to get your hands dirty. Prototypes need to be created, motors have to be mounted, enclosures must be built. Understanding how things are fabricated makes you a better maker. But hardware is hard. You can’t simply copy and paste an object or working device (not yet anyway), fabrication skills and techniques need to be developed and practiced in order to create quality work. You learn to make by doing. In this class, you will become familiar and comfortable with all the ITP shop has to offer. We will cover everything from basic hand tools to the beginnings of digital fabrication. You will learn to use the right tool for the job. There will be weekly assignments created to develop your fabrication techniques. There will be in class lectures, demos, and building assignments. Emphasis will be put on good design practices, material choice, and craftsmanship.
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