Mechanics & Movement: Announcing Our New Robotics Residents We are pleased to announce that Adrianne Wortzel and Catie Cuan will join ThoughtWorks Arts this summer as our newest residents, exploring issues of movement and robotics. Adrianne Wortzel and Catie Cuan Adrianne Wortzel is an acclaimed artist who creates unique and innovative interactive web-based works, robotic and telerobotic installations, performance productions, videos, and writings. During her residency at ThoughtWorks Arts, Adrianne will be initiating a project to develop a social and psychotherapeutic tool for nonverbal expression through gesture. Catie Cuan is a performer, choreographer, and technologist. Her current robotics work, Time to Compile, shows how choreography can inform the design of robots to make them more effective and expressive, especially for personal spaces like homes and hospitals. Catie will use her residency to finalize the performance piece and synthesize her research for this project. The residency was awarded to these two artists respectively, because of their unique and complementary views on important issues. Their practices provide different critical approaches to issues of the mechanical and movement, as it pertains to robotics and human-computer interaction. You can learn more about Adrianne and Catie and the projects they will be pursuing through their residency at ThoughtWorks in the announcement blog post.   Open Call for Art-A-Hack™ Special Edition Summer 2018 We are now accepting applications for Art-A-Hack™ Special Edition 2018 in collaboration with CUNY City Tech. As always, Art-A-Hack is completely free to participate and open to anyone. We are seeking passionate and curious people to explore projects around two themes: Climate Change: Data & Disinformation; and Emotionally Intelligent Artificial Intelligence & Brain Computer Interfaces. This special edition of Art-A-Hack will take place in New York City over four Saturdays between June 9th and July 7th (with a break for the July 4th holiday). Final project presentations will be held at CUNY City Tech’s theater in downtown Brooklyn on July 13th. Deadline to apply is Tuesday, May 8th 11:59 PM ET. Please apply to join us and help spread the word by sharing the Open Call!   ClimateAction.tech, Co-Founded by TWA Director, Highlighted by the Environmental Defense Fund In 2017, ThoughtWorks Arts Director Andy McWilliams co-founded ClimateAction.tech, a community of technology professionals using their skills, tools, and influence to amplify the Climate Movement. ClimateAction.tech is currently focused on empowering tech sector employees to move their companies forward with sustainability agendas and climate advocacy. Their "Sustainability Accelerator" program has linked emerging technology/environmental advocate employees to successful senior-level sustainability coaches in major tech firms. The program was recently highlighted in an article published by the Environmental Defense Fund, 4 Corporate Sustainability Trends All Business Leaders Should be Watching in 2018. Still from Emergency Room Installation Andy’s art practice is currently focused around linking the climate crisis to personal health emergencies. He most recent work, Emergency Room, is an immersive media installation featuring images of environmental activism amid planetary impacts of climate change, surrounded by a beeping ECG display.   Past Resident Heather Dewey-Hagborg Discusses Art, Tech and Politics with Chelsea Manning Watch the entire conversation where Heather and Chelsea speak on the social, technological, and economic ramifications of Artificial Intelligence, and on the practical applications of machine learning. Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Chelsea Manning at the University of Michigan While in her residency at ThoughtWorks, Heather partnered with ThoughtWorks designer Sholi Kanungo to create the graphic short story, Suppressed Images, illustrating her collaboration with Chelsea Manning and imagining what future might unfold around artificial intelligence and DNA surveillance.   Updates from Art-A-Hack™ Alumni Emmy-winning filmmaker Lisa Russell has launched #Create2030, and new film and creative campaign to engage artists and storytellers in helping to meet the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), otherwise known as the Global Goals. Funded by the UN Secretary General's SDG Advocacy Group, the five minute film features other conscious artists from around the world. During major social holidays (such as International Women's Day, World AIDS Day, Earth Day, etc), the campaign will be "activated" and artists will be encouraged to share their SDG-inspired creative content with the hashtag #Create2030. This allows UN/NGO agencies and other partners working on the SDGs to identify possible creative partners. The #Create2030 Campaign by Lisa Russell Are you Interested in arts and machine learning? Gene Kogan is teaching a one-week Machine Learning for New Media Art workshop at Anderson Ranch this August, in Aspen Colorado. You may be able to get a discount if you contact Director of Programs, Andrea Wallace, so act fast!   Join Creative Tech Week's 10-day Festival for Creative Technologists Creative Tech Week 2018 brings together interdisciplinary developers, designers, executives and artists in the creative technology field for networking, discovery, conferences, AR/VR, AI, interactive art, and performances. The programing features over 100 experts across New York City for events including VR Night, the intimate CryptoCreative symposium and the CTW2018 Conference. Get your tickets now for Creative Tech Week 2018 in NYC, May 3-12. Members of the ThoughtWorks Arts community can receive a special 20% discount with the code CREATIVETECH.   Directors and Alumni News Publications Ellen Pearlman (Director) The first neuroopera ‘Noor’: transparent brain and the end of humanistic ethics? Russian Journal Of Communication   Presentations Lisa Russell (Art-A-Hack Alum) Speaker TEDx Ashbury Park May 19, 2018 9 AM - 5 PM Ashbury Park, NJ Dr. Ellen Pearlman (Director) Panelist 3rd Global Symposium “Posthuman Ethics” April 28, 2018 4 - 5:20 PM New York University - Liberal Studies New York, NY Roundtable Discussion Fred Forest Strikes Back: The Politics of Institutional Discrimination WhiteBox New York, NY Gene Kogan (Art-A-Hack Alum) Musicmaker's Dystopia: the Automation of Songwriting, Production, and Curation CTM Festival Berlin, Germany hannes bend (Past resident) FluxBuddha: A Time-Based Performance Art Concert The Rubin Museum New York, NY Moon Ribas (Past resident) Speaker TEDxPorto Porto, Portugal   Blog Posts ThoughtWorks Arts Exhibition at SPRING/BREAK for Armory Week 2018 by the Residency Team How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Criminal Justice System by Stephanie Weber Industrial Design Process for the ‘Time Sense’ Prototype by Oryan Inbar Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Chelsea Manning show at Fridman Gallery by Ellen Pearlman Welcoming Karen Palmer to the ThoughtWorks Arts Residency by the Residency Team Presenting Our Art & Technology Projects at TEDxVilnius by Andrew McWilliams Karen Palmer Awarded ThoughtWorks AI Residency by the Residency Team Three Views on Biometrics and Immersion for Creative Tech Week by the Residency Team Why We Are Investigating the Biases of Artificial Intelligence by the Residency Directors Welcoming Hannes Bend to the ThoughtWorks Arts Residency by the Residency Team Suppressed Images: Advocating for Chelsea Manning's Release by the Residency Team How I Became a Cyborg by Stefanie Grewenig Cyborg Senses: Weaving the Materials by Caihong Liu Heather Dewey-Hagborg Begins Residency at ThoughtWorks by the Residency Team Developing a Cyborg Time Sense: Research and Experimentation by Andrew McWilliams Global Visioning Session with the Cyborgs by Andrew McWilliams Inside Our Brand New Lab at ThoughtWorks NYC by the Residency Team Discussing the residency on dotNYC with Jeff Jarvis by Andrew McWilliams Introducing the Cyborg Foundation by the Residency Team Announcing the ThoughtWorks artist residency by the Residency Team

AWE 2018 Santa Clara!! this is the big one --- volunteers needed

http://www.augmentedworldexpo.com/

Hello,

I wanted to reach out to offer your students an opportunity to get involved in AWE USA 2018 in a volunteer capacity—a chance to experience the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to XR (AR, VR, MR). This year’s event will take place May 30-June 1 in the heart of Silicon Valley (Santa Clara Convention Center), and we would love to help future tech leaders and young enthusiasts and innovators to attend.

Over three days (plus one set up day), AWE 2018 will bring together 6,000 professionals, including a mix of CEOs, CTOs, designers, developers, creative agencies, futurists, analysts, investors and top press to learn, partner and experience first-hand the most exciting industry of our times.

AWE needs capable, enthusiastic volunteers like your students to make the event run smoothly. In exchange for at least ONE half day of assistance, students will receive an AWE staff t-shirt and complimentary one-day admission to the event (excluding the workshops on Wednesday, May 30.) They will be free to explore the expo hall and attend sessions outside of their volunteer shifts. Those who want to attend both days (Thursday, May 31 and Friday, June 1) can sign up for at least one volunteer shift per day!

If you know any students who would like to assist with AWE USA 2018, please have them complete the online volunteer form. AWE will review submissions and send further information to accepted volunteers, including roles, responsibilities and hours.

If you are interested in attending the event as a regular attendee, you can purchase tickets on the AWE website.

Have volunteering or event-specific questions? Please email aweregister@gmail.com.

Thank you,

Emily Friedman and the AWE USA 2018 Team

Class 4- 27- 18 --- NYU RESEARCH EXPO

Class 4- 27- 18 

For the next class, Siyuan and I have to show in the NYU Research Expo held every year by Tandon every year. It's like the science fair for Tandon and they have us represent the department every year.

Sadly the time of the Expo is at the same time as our class.

Tomorrow will be a working class.

Anyone with tech issues-- come to the research expo and sit with us and we will help you. In turn, we might ask you to help man the booth while we debug ur issues.

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Some teams are further along than others-
1st Please contact me and tell me what you are doing.
For teams that feel good about their tech- you may go off-site or work remotely.


It's Movie time!!!!@!   Start documenting your work-

THE FINAL MOVIE IS THE BIGGEST PART OF YOUR GRADE.

even if we cant use them in the final draft we can start working your shots out-

First- storyboard out your shots.

It would be great if you went to the project site of your project and began documenting your work-
in your bedroom?
the kitchen table?
the park?
go there and start videoing-
For people who are startup/industry related one approach is to tell your project's story. Often times the story is a major factor in getting investors interested in your work. I have mentioned this but some companies actually hire sick people so they can say one of their team members has the sickness they are trying to fight.

I have talked to other projects whose outcome might be more like a case study- you can document the iterations of the project and user testing. Try to highlight success and failure during the creation process.

I am open to different approaches, so talk to me if you have different ideas for a final.

WayRay’s True AR Challenge and Hackathon --- 100k in prizes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WayRay’s True AR Challenge and Hackathon is an online selection and onsite competition for developers and designers passionate about AR apps for cars. The contest is the next step for WayRay towards creating an active community of engineers, developers, and designers building AR solutions for the automotive industry. The submissions that are visually innovative, technologically impressive, and engaging for users will be shortlisted for the hackathon where you will bring your idea to a working app prototype using our True AR SDK.

https://www.hackerearth.com/sprints/true-ar-challenge-hackathon/

Up to $100k in prizes

Fun stuff!

Cheers - ARNY

Justin Hendrix is coming to next class

Justin Hendrix is coming to next class- He will meet with you one on one and you will show him your work. We will continue to do tech during the class time. 

In his own words, "I'm Executive Director at NYC Media Lab. I connect companies seeking to advance emerging media technologies with New York City’s universities to drive entrepreneurship, R&D and innovation. Launched by the New York City Economic Development Corporation, NYU and Columbia University, NYC Media Lab is a public-private partnership encompassing the universities of NYC and corporate members such as Associated Press, Audible, Hearst, ESPN, Major League Baseball Advanced Media, Bloomberg, Weather Company, NBCUniversal, Viacom and Verizon." 

"The Lab's interests range across disciplines from data science to design to engineering, and its programs include seed R&D projects with member companies as well as The Combine, an early stage accelerator program that encourages digital media startup entrepreneurship and technology commercialization on the City’s campuses." 

"Previously I was Vice President, Business Development & Innovation for The Economist, where I directed prototyping and commercialization of new digital media business concepts. I completed a Bachelor of Arts from the College of William & Mary and a Master of Science in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin." 

"I live in Brooklyn. I tweet at @justinhendrix- opinions expressed here or there are solely my own."

the Fake News Horror Show! OPEN CALL!!

Help the world imagine the future of propaganda and misinformation. Demo with us June 7th & 8th in Brooklyn. New technologies are making it possible to generate new and more insidious forms of propaganda and misinformation. The only way to address the problem is to understand what is possible. On June 7th & 8th in downtown Brooklyn, the Fake News Horror Show! will convene researchers, digital media experts and technologists, and those concerned with the political and social implications of computational propaganda to imagine the worst. Picture a science fair of terrifying propaganda tools- some real and some imagined, but all based on plausible technologies. We're looking for the best thinking on where misinformation might go in the future, as technologies evolve. Apply to demo Application Eligibility. The application is open to anyone, including: University faculty and students, startups, government and civic officials, corporate labs, and independent artists and technologists. What is NYC Media Lab looking for: Applications that show use cases of emerging media and technology platforms are preferred. We will accept working prototypes as well as design fictions. This can include data science, AI, machine learning, blockchain, virtual and augmented reality, UI/UX and more. We are looking for innovative concepts and will judge and accept applications based on their relevance to the themes of fake news, misinformation and computational propaganda.  What is the time commitment: The event will take place on June 7th-8th, 2018, and will be open to registered attendees. The format of the event is a Demo Expo and related talks. If your demo is chosen to participate, you will receive a 6-foot table to install your project. Your demo is expected to be on view for the duration of the 2-day event. Your demo will load in on Thursday, June 7th in the morning and will load on the evening of Friday, June 8th.  About the venue: The MAGNET campus at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering is located at 2 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn NY 11201 on the 8th floor (Map). MAGNET a shared space for faculty and students from across NYU who are exploring experiences at the intersection of culture and technology. The Fake News Horror Show! will activate the MAGNET space with a sprawling, "science-fair" style Demo Expo, with 30+ demos on view.  Apply to demo Rolling Application Deadline: Monday, May 7th, 5PM Please submit your application today! We will review and accept projects as they come in- early submission is encouraged. Email alexis@nycmedialab.org with questions. Not interested in submitting a demo, but interested in attending? If you have not already done so, please apply to attend here. Brought to you by:

IDM showcase submission.

Here are the links to the IDM showcase submission. For you to pass to your AR and VR students.

bxmc.poly.edu/idmshow

bit.ly/idm18submit

"New Realities in Learning: Innovations in Physical and Virtual Educational Space"

Date: Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 4:04 PM
Subject: Wednesday, April 18: Tech-Enhanced Education Event, "New Realities in Learning: Innovations in Physical and Virtual Educational Space"
To: 

Dear Colleagues, Increasingly, faculty are seeking to simulate or represent the "real" world more authentically to better prepare learners for future scholarship and employment. Traditional classrooms, for example, are being reimagined with both physical and digital elements, while the use of virtual, mixed, and augmented reality is creating new and exciting opportunities for enhancing teaching and learning. How might virtual and augmented reality environments replace, or at least change, our needs for physical space? What is driving this change? What is the impact? At this semester’s technology-enhanced education event, “New Realities in Learning: Innovations in Physical and Virtual Educational Space,” which will take place on Wednesday, April 18, 12:30-4:00 p.m., we will explore the ways in which NYU faculty are engaging with the questions above. Presenters will share their innovations in virtual and physical learning spaces, as well as what motivates them to experiment with new approaches. A concluding panel discussion will focus on what we as educators are learning from these experiments, in an effort to understand their current impact and to gauge future directions. This event is co-sponsored by the Faculty Committee on the Future of Technology-Enhanced Education, the Office of the Provost, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching, and NYU Information Technology. It will take place in the Grand Hall, on the 5th floor of the Global Center for Academic and Spiritual Life (238 Thompson Street), and lunch will be provided. For further details, and to register, please please visit the NYU Events Calendar. We look forward to seeing you on April 18! All best, Clay Shirky, Vice Provost for Educational Technologies R. Ben Maddox, Chief Instructional Technology Officer, NYU Information Technology