ITP Unconference

Time/Date: Friday 4-5.30 PM

Room: Red square

Instructor: Joe Baker

Description

In this workshop, I’ll go over basic movements of the street styles I’ve learned and performed over the years.  If students are interested in incorporating body motion or performative elements into their projects (or learn how to get down at a party) come through!  Wear loose clothes that are easy to move in.

Time/Date: Friday 1-3 PM

Room: 410

Instructor: Mark Lam

Description

Modular synthesis in the p5 web editor.

Mindfulness is the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.

In the hyper-computerized world we are spending more and more time in front of the computer with less time to reflect on our actions. Many disconnectionists and luddites propose spending more time away from the screen in a digital detoxification. As technologists we can achieve this (while increasing our productivity) by automating our computing tasks and unburden ourselves with our mental workload in order to be more present aware at our tasks at hand.

To automate our computing environment we will learn more about how computers operate at a low level while gaining comfortability with a textual interface. If you find yourself frequently performing repetitive tasks you can take the time to write an automation script. In the process you’ll learn to think more algorithmically about the tasks and free yourself to be more present while computing and less hindered by act of computing.

Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed with minimal human assistance. – Wikipedia

Knowledge of CLI is not required but it would be helpful when creating tasks

This tutorial focuses on the Bash scripting language but the concepts can be applied to any scripting language.

Time/Date: Thursday 1.30-3.30 PM

Room: 410

Instructor: David Azar

Description

Come learn the basics of parametric modeling, assemblies and 3D printing on Fusion 360.

Time/Date: Friday 1-3 PM

Room: 409

Instructor: Hannah Tardie

Description

Learn how to make an analog synth using potentiometers and 555 timers. Bring your own breadboard!

Time/Date: Wednesday 2-4 PM

Room: Conference room

Instructor: Billy Bennett

Description

Modular synthesis in the p5 web editor.

Time/Date: Thursday 1-3 PM

Room: 408

Instructor: Bora Aydintug

Description

You can easily create stylize and loop noise-driven animations in After Effects without any need for coding or external plugins. The aim of this workshop is to teach the basics of looping the fractal noise effect in After Effects and point towards potential alleys of discovery so that people can experiment on their own in the future. Here are some examples

Time/Date: Friday 1-4 PM

Room: Broadcast studio

Instructor: Ellen Nickles & Jesse Simpson

Description

🎥What is the Broadcast Studio?! The Broadcast Studio is a community resource at NYU ITP. It provides equipment for recording and streaming presentations, tutorials, and other live show formats.

🤔Where can you learn more? Everything you need to know about the studio is posted on the ITP Help website, but feel free to attend the open house with zero prep.

💡What else? Second-years: this is a useful resource to practice your thesis presentations next semester!

Time/Date: Thursday 1-3 PM

Room: 407

Instructor: August Luhrs

Description

In this hands-on workshop, we will introduce and code a simple browser-based framework that students can use to build multi-user interactive web pages for games, performance art, installations, and more. We will start from scratch, going over what websockets/socket.io are, and then work together to build a couple simple examples in the browser. The primary tools we will be using are p5.js, node.js, and socket.io, but all in Glitch so no need to have stuff pre-installed. Since this is heavily drawn from material in Collective Play, this is good way to get a brief headstart for those enrolled this spring or a little taste for those who wanted to take Collective Play but couldn’t. Bring a laptop to code along and participate in the examples!

Time/Date: Thursday 3-whenever people finish their games

Room: In and around the conference room

Instructor: August Luhrs

Description

Swing by for some casual party games like Jackbox, One Night Werewolf, Skull, and more! If enough people show we’ll have multiple games going so come whenever and stay as long as you want!

Time/Date: TBD

Room: TBD

Instructor: Brent Bailey

Description

Datasets are bad. how do we make them better? we make our own! in this short workshop, we’ll go over some of the ethical and artistic issues with widely available datasets, introduce some important tools for gathering data from the web for creative purposes, and write a simple web scraper to download images and text. Basic coding experience with p5 and terminal encouraged.