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NYU IDM Grad Adlan Ramly announced as a Finalist for Niantic’s Beyond Reality Competition!

Adlan Ramly, integrated digital media graduate student, along with his teammate were chosen as finalist for the Niantic Beyond Reality Developer Contest. Their project ExplorAR was one of ten chosen out of thousands of submissions to build an experience on top of the Niantic Real World Platform.

Niantic’s Real World Platform combines a world-scale persistent state engine, multiplayer AR, high-speed networking, geolocation data, and much more to create unique experiences that promote a sense of imagination and adventure.

Adlan and his teammate will get access to this world, a stipend, and a three-month period, with the goal of showing off their incredible work at a Demo Day in San Francisco, hosted by Niantic.

We’re really excited to see how it all goes!
IDM Speaker Series Resumes Fall 2019

Monday • 6.00 – 7.00 pm • Fall 2019
Level 2, Room 202, 370 Jay St

Schedule

Monday Sept 30th
Jamer Hunt
Director, Transdisciplinary Design MFA, Parsons
http://www.jamerx.com/

Jamer Hunt collaboratively designs open and flexible programs for participation that respond to emergent cultural conditions. He is the Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives at The New School, where he was founding director (2009-2015) of the graduate program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design. He is also Visiting Design Researcher at the Institute of Design in Umea, Sweden.

Jamer’s talk at NYU covered his research on designing at and for different scales, and what designers could learn from seeing and interpreting the world at different scales. His upcoming book on scale and complex systems, Not to Scale: How the Small becomes Large, the Large becomes Unthinkable, and the Unthinkable becomes Possible, will be published by Grand Central Publishing in March 2020.

Monday Oct 21th
Sha Hwang
Information Designer
Co-founder of Nava. Co-founder of cofounded Gifpop, Meshu, and Movity.
http://postarchitectural.com/

Monday Nov 4th
Amy Hurst
Director of the NYU Ability Lab
http://ability.nyu.edu/

Elizabeth Henaff
Biodesigner and artist
IDM Faculty
http://elizabeth-henaff.net/

Monday Nov 11th
Jabe Bloom
Systems designer.
Chief Flow Officer at PraxisFlow, a consultancy that helps organizations take a systems level view of their work.
https://www.praxisflow.com/

Monday Nov 18th
Carla Gannis
Interdisciplinary Artist
IDM Faculty https://carlagannis.com/

Tega Brain
Artist and environmental engineer
IDM Faculty
http://tegabrain.com/

Monday Nov 25th
Salome Asega
Artist and researcher.
Technology Fellow in the Ford Foundation’s Creativity and Free Expression program
http://www.salome.zone/
Calendar of Events, Workshops, & Club Meetings

Below is a listing of events/workshops/club meetings by IDM or by programs affiliated with IDM. It also includes in some cases events/workshops/club meetings that the IDM community thinks would be interesting to IDM students.

Here is also a directory of the 370 Jay Building:

2nd Floor Auditorium | Under Construction

3rd Floor IDM

4th Floor ITP/IMA

5th Floor Steinhardt (Music Tech, DMDL) + Clive Davis

6th Floor Games + Clive Davis

7th Floor Future Lab

8th – 11 Floor (CS, ECE, & Tandon)

12th

13th CUSP
370 Jay Halloween Party

370 Jay Full Building Halloween Party!!

Nov 1st, Friday, 5 – 9pm

12th Floor

Come join the programs inside Brooklyn’s 370 Jay building for an evening of scare, drinks, food, and fun! RSVP, get your costumes ready and keep your calendar booked because Halloween is coming to Jay!
Week 7 Dance Dance Dance
We invited a special guest for our week 7 — Dr. Betsy Coker.

Excitedly, friends from the Dance Department also joined for this session with IDM and ITP students!

Dancer, dance-maker, scientist, and teacher Elizabeth (Betsy) Coker introduced principles of clinical neuroscience, biomechanics, and motion capture technologies to question how we conceive of our bodies, who authors body representations in scientific research, and the empirical and creative implications of objectivity.
*Lecture followed by interactive motion capture demonstration.
Week 6 Create Your Own Avatar

This week, students are learning how to create and rig their own avatars in Maya, and puppet them in real time and with pre-recorded data.

Also, students also have opportunities to learn how to add animation in MotionBuilder.

Available Resources:

You can watch or follow along on your computer and make your own avatar! Software that will be helpful:

Make human (Mac or PC): http://www.makehumancommunity.org/content/downloads.html

Maya (PC or Mac only): https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/maya

MotionBuilder (PC Only): https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/motionbuilder