Star Speakers and Events
Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar
March 17 - Collaboration presentation between Journalism and
NMIC
Pixel Press http://www.pixelpress.org/ is
an on-line journalism
magazine that uses a variety of linear and non-linear strategies to
explore a new form of journalism. They work with organizations such
as Crimes of War, Human Rights Watch, World Health Organization
and UNICEF to create Web sites that deal directly with contemporary
issues in complex and innovative ways that circumvent media
sensationalism and simplification. They also try to factor in ways that
the viewer can help remedy social problems, rather than remain a
spectator. Fred is the former photo editor for the New York Times
magazine and a professor at New York University, currently teaching
in the Photo Department and formerly a core faculty member of the
Interactive Telecommunictions Program, Tisch School of the Arts.
Carole recently wrote “"George Rodger An Adventure
in
Photography, 1908-1995"” about one of the founders
of the Magnum
Photo Agency. She presented her book to Andy Mendelson's photo
journalism class.
http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/fall-
2003-catalog/george-rodger.html
Ralph Lemon
Apr. 13, Collaboration presentation NMIC and Theater
New York-based choreographer-director-writer Ralph Lemon
presented his research work for his remarkable Geography trilogy.
Unfolding over the course of nine years, Lemon's complex dance-
theater universe explores global sociopolitical ideas and
incorporates performance traditions from across the world. Lemon
and his international performers-collaborators--including
choreographer-dancer Bebe Miller, dancer David Thomson, and
several other African-American artists from past Geography
performances developed Come Back Charlie Patton, the final part of
the trilogy, which was recently performed at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music in the fall of 2004. This new piece examines the complicated
folk culture of the American South through Lemon's own African-
American family history, which spans eras of segregation and
integration. Ralph Lemon is one of the few performers to effectively
integrate media into his performances in a seamless and organic
way.
http://www.ballet-dance.com/200501/articles/Lemon20041026.html
Intro to New Media 2
Dana Karwas, Interactive Telecommunications
Program, Tisch
School of the Arts, NYU, graduate student. Dana
presented her
project which uses and displays interaction between the web
and
cell phones, cell.SPACE” and gave a demo of Max MSP
+ jitter
http://www.dk22.com/suburb/
Jane Dowling - Information Architect
Steve Bull - cell phone technology, TouchToneTours”
http://el.net/bull
Jean-Marc Gauthier –- 3D installations
in virtual and real space.
Demo of Virtools, a 3D software that incorporates multi-media
functions found in Max MSP + jitter.
http://fargo.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~gauthier/
Fall '04
Star Speaker
Nick West
Urban Tapestries
Public Authoring in the Wireless City
http://urbantapestries.net/
Nick is a member of the core research and development team
for
Urban Tapestries, a Proboscis project exploring social and
cultural
uses of the convergence of place and mobile technologies through
transdisciplinary research. To help them model emerging social
and
cultural behaviors they have built an experimental platform
that
allows people to author and access place-based content (text,
audio
and pictures). It is a framework for exploring and sharing
experience
and knowledge, for leaving and annotating ephemeral traces
of
peoples' presence in the geography of the city.
Speakers in classes
Intro to New Media 1
Greg Elin - Picture annotation application,
social software and the
issues of open source standards
Jane Dowling –- Information Architecture
and project organization.
Elizabeth Kilroy –- Design and Visual
Language preview
http://elizabethk.com/
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