Events Archives

• 10 May 2009

  Objectified Opening at IFC NYC

  Among my favorite quotes from the movie came from Dan Formosa (Smart Design), "Design for the extremes…and the middle will take care of itself."

• 4 May 2009

  ITP 2009 Thesis Presentations + Spring Show

  Be sure to check out ITP's thesis presentations beginning Monday, May 4 at noon through Friday, May 8. (view schedule). A live video stream will be available. Afterwards, drop by ITP for the ITP Spring Show 2009 on Sunday, May 10 2-6pm and Monday, May 11, 5-9pm.

• 17 Oct 2008

  Usability Tests in the Wild Seminar Discount

  Limited seats are available for this 90-minute virtual seminar, The Quick, the Cheap, and the Insightful: Conducting Usability Tests in the Wild. Add promo code WILDFRIDAY to get a $30 off, reducing the fee to just $99.

• 21 Sep 2008

  Clay Shirky at Web2.0 Expo

  More ITP shout-outs from Web2.0 Expo: Clay Talks about Information Overload and Filter Failure.

• 20 Sep 2008

  The Internet Industry in NY

  "It all started when Red Burns opened the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU" according to Fred Wilson during his talk at Web 2.0 Expo. ITP reprazent.

• 31 May 2008

  Keeping Up With Social Tagging

  An Adobe Connect-based screencast of a presentation on Social Tagging, Social Bookmarking by Thomas Vander Wal, commonly credited for coining the term folksonomy.

• 25 Nov 2007

  OLPC and Negroponte

  Nicholas Negroponte, Chairman Emeritus of MIT Media Lab and more recently known for the non-profit One Laptop Per Child will be on air on Paltalk Monday 11/26 5pm ET ...

• 8 May 2007

  ITP Spring Show 2007

  A number of the thesis projects are on display at ITP's Spring Show along with other students' projects. MAKE got early pictures of the show: MAKE: ITP Spring Show 2007 photos

• 30 Apr 2007

  ITP Thesis Presentations; Spring Show 2007

  ITP thesis presentations are available via streaming video beginning Monday, April 30 through Friday May 4. (UPDATE: I've been encountering problems viewing the video stream from Firefox but it launched without problems on Safari. Also, I haven't been able to join the chat -- seems to be at capacity. ) CNET's recent profile of NYU's ITP describes the program as an "unusual physical specimen." Also, mark your calendars for the ITP Spring Show, Tuesday, May 8 and Wednesday, May 9 from 5-9pm.

• 3 Dec 2006

  ITP Winter Show 2006

  It's where artists meet their inner geek and where geeks discover their sensitive artistic side. The ITP Winter Show 2006 will be held at the ITP loft 721 Broadway at Waverly Place, 4th Floor, on Sunday, December 17 2-6 PM and on Monday, December 18 5-9 PM. It's free and open to the public.

• 25 Oct 2006

  World Usability Day

  Mark your calendars for World Usability Day 2006 with events scheduled worldwide, all day on November 14, 2006.

• 1 Oct 2006

  Project Runway Meets Hack Day

  All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize for their entry, Blogging in Motion, a photoblogging system in the guise of a handbag. For fans of Project Runway, you'll notice that one of the team members is Diana Eng, the season 2 wearables mistress who is clearly no stranger to 24-hour deadlines with crazy creative constraints.

• 16 May 2006

  Highlights from the 2006 ITP Spring Show

  If you weren't able to catch the ITP Show last week, you can be there vicariously through these pre-show videos: Day 1; Day 2. Wired also recently featured the show within the context of the Infinite Games project. Cool Hunting also has a few highlights from last week's ITP Spring Show.

• 4 May 2006

  Webcast: The Art and Science of Interaction

  The Art and Science of Interaction with George Mallen will be webcast live today at noon ET (-5GMT). The talk will focus on "HCI in the broader context of linguistic and social evolution and ... the relationship between belief systems and knowledge systems". It will also be available in the Events Archive for those who won't be able to watch it live. London Knowledge Lab.

• 2 May 2006

  ITP Thesis Webcasts

  View the ITP thesis presentations online this week beginning today, from May 2-5, 12-9pm ET (-5GMT). Projects on tap today iclude: Interactive Shoes, shoes that interact with a mobile phone; Ramps -- a prototype of which I had seen at the 2005 Spring Show; [new-context-likeOne]. Consult the thesis page for the webcast info and thesis schedule: ITP Thesis Presentations 2006. Participate in the live chat as well for additional peer commentary.

• 20 Apr 2006

  ITP Spring Show 2006

  If you're a fan of Make, circuit-bending, etc., then you'll love the ITP Spring Show, a two-day exhibition of interactive sight, sound and physical objects from the student artists of ITP. This event is free and open to the public. No need to RSVP. ITP Spring Show 2006.

• 16 Apr 2006

  ITP Thesis Week 2005 Live Webcast!

  Thesis presentations for NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP ) graduating students will be webcast live from Tuesday, May 2 through Friday, May 5. Newsweek calls ITP "the Harvard of Interactive". See http://itp.nyu.edu/thesis for the updated schedule and list of presenters.

• 14 Mar 2006

  SXSWi 2006: Does Your Blog Have a Business

  Thanks to those of you who attended the panel. And thanks, too, for the copious notes from the panel discussion from Rands in Repose and Auscillate! I also wanted to provide the link to Clay Shirky's essay on Situated Software...

• 10 Mar 2006

  SXSWi 2006: Day Zero

  Austin, TX, March 10. I almost had a good night's sleep after having arrived in Austin, March 9 feeling wired and sleep-deprived from having just taken an out-of-state trip the day before. "Almost" because my hotel decided to test the alarm system early in the morning...

• 18 Dec 2005

  ITP Winter Show 2005

  The ITP Winter Show kicked off today and was fun and inspiring as always. Some of my favorites include the smart yet low-tech Polite Umbrella. Designed for city dwellers, the umbrella can be partly collapsed so that oncoming pedestrians with...

• 22 Aug 2005

  Let go my Lego!

  Brickfest 2005 drew Lego fanatics worldwide to show off their brick-laying skills. Personally, none of them are as good as my all-time favorite, Abston Church of Christ....

• 31 Jul 2005

  BlogHer Highlights and Observations

  BlogHer is a whole 'nother kind of conference, a Fellini film incarnate — at times heady and profound; other times, a bit syrupy or just entertainingly eccentric. As a disclaimer, I've been attending a conference each month for the past...

• 30 Jul 2005

  Return to Silicon Valley

  Last time I was in Silicon Valley, I was an AOL employee and I visited Mountain View regularly to work with folks at the Netscape headquarters. That was pre 9/11. AOL just acquired Time Warner. The joint company was called...

• 9 Jun 2005

  ThinkQuest NYC Awards

  A follow-up to the TQNYC post I wrote about a month ago. The ThinkQuest NYC winners were announced on May 7, 2005 at a gala ceremony at the hip Puck Building in SoHo. Congratulations to the winners, their instructors and...

• 16 May 2005

  Think Quest NYC

  Think Quest New York City (TQNYC) is an after-school program where children from middle schools work in small teams to build educational web sites. The program is brilliant and combines so many things I'm passionate about: children, learning, creativity, problem-solving,...

• 11 May 2005

  Contagious Media Showdown

  I attended the Contagious Media Workshops at Eyebeam in Chelsea this past weekend. The event was hosted by none other than Eyebeam R&D director, Joshua Peretti. The workshops were conducted by web digerati including Joshua Schacter of del.icio.us fame; Michael...

• 28 Apr 2005

  ITP Thesis Week and Spring Show

  Great upcoming events at my alma mater, NYU's ITP. The 2005 graduating class will be presenting their thesis projects during ITP Thesis Week beginning Tuesday, May 3 through Saturday, May 7. You can watch the presentations live through streaming video....