Faculty

Ahmed Ansari

Ahmed Ansari is a doctoral candidate and lecturer in Design Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests intersect between design studies, cultural theory, and the philosophy and history of technology in the Indian subcontinent – specifically, he is interested in South Asian cosmologies and ontologies, with a focus on …

Carla Gannis

Carla Gannis is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She produces virtual and physical works that are darkly comical in their contemplation of human, earthly and cosmological conditions. Fascinated by digital semiotics and the lineage of hybrid identity, Gannis takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, …

Regine Gilbert

Regine Gilbert is a user experience designer, educator, and international public speaker with over 10 years of experience working in the technology arena. She has a strong belief in making the world a more accessible place—one that starts and ends with the user. Regine is an Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon …

Kat Sullivan

Brooklyn-based artist Kat Sullivan exists at the intersection of movement and technology. After earning her Bachelors in Computer Science and Dance at Skidmore College, she worked as a software engineer and free lanced with various dance companies in the Boston area. At NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), she developed a …

Kathleen McDermott

Kathleen McDermott is an interdisciplinary artist and designer with a background in installation, prop-making and sculpture, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She combines her knowledge of fabrication with open source hardware to build a language of absurdity that merges new media, design, performance, and video. She is interested in technologies …

Benedetta Piantella

Benedetta was born and raised in Parma, Italy. She received a BFA from Tufts University and SMFA Boston in 2004, while taking courses at Harvard, MIT and Mass Art. During her time in Boston, she worked as teaching assistant at SMFA introducing new technologies in the world of digital photography …

Scott Fitzgerald – Co-Director

https://ennuigo.com/ Co-Director IDM / Industry Assistant Professor, Associate Director of Online Programs, Global Network Arts Professor Technology, Culture and Society (Engineering)shf220@nyu.edu (646) 997 3619   Scott Fitzgerald is an artist and educator whose work examines the interdependence of culture and technology. He’s a Professor and co-Director of the Integrated Digital Media …

Amy Hurst

IDM is pleased to welcome Amy Hurst as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Occupational Therapy in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development and the Department of Technology, Culture and Society in the Tandon School of Engineering. She is the director of …

Elizabeth Hénaff

Dr. Elizabeth Hénaff is a computational biologist and designer. Her academic trajectory started with a Bachelors in Computer Science, followed by a Master’s in Plant Biology (both from UT Austin) and a PhD in Bioinformatics from the The University of Barcelona. At the center of her research is a fascination …

Tega Brain

http://www.tegabrain.com/ (MA, Queensland University of Technology)Assistant Industry Professor, Integrated Digital MediaTechnology, Culture and Societybrain@nyu.edu Tega Brain is an artist and environmental engineer whose work intersects art, ecology and engineering. Calling her artistic research eccentric engineering, she explores the scope and politics of emerging technologies. She is an Assistant Professor of …

Mark Skwarek

http://www.markskwarek.com/ http://mobilearlab.bxmc.poly.edu/ (MFA, Rhode Island School of Design)Lecturer, Integrated Digital MediaTechnology, Culture and Societymls386@nyu.edu646.997.3768 Mark Skwarek is an artist working to bridge the gap between virtual and physical world with augmented reality. His art explores the translation our everyday digital experience into the physical world using mobile augmented reality. Skwarek …

Luke DuBois – Co-Director

http://lukedubois.com/ (DMA, Columbia University)Co-Director / Associate Professor of Integrated Digital MediaTechnology, Culture and Society (Engineering); Music and Performing Arts Professions (Steinhardt); Interactive Telecommunications (Tisch)dubois@nyu.edu(646) 997 0719 R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds …