Category: Faculty

Carla Gannis produces media objects and experiences that consider the uncanny complications in contemporary culture between base reality and virtual reality. Her research interests include phenomenology as it pertains to synthetic media experiences, digital semiotics, virtual selfhood, electronic archives, and the implications of extended reality and artificial intelligence on society and culture. Gannis takes a horror vacui approach to her artistic practice, culling inspiration from networked communication, art and literary history, emerging technologies and speculative design.

Gannis’s personal interests include (in no particular order) reading, watching, or playing works of speculative fiction; taking long walks; advocating social change for a more just and equitable society and environment; listening to podcast interviews with physicists; art of the past and present; exploring the potential of blockchain technology; and trying to find balance between computer screen time and physical reality immersion.

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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 School of Engineering, teaching User Experience Design to students in the Integrated Digital Media Program. In addition, she teaches the part time User Experience Design course at General Assembly

Some of the companies Regine has had the pleasure of working for include Disney, JP Morgan, Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts, Ralph Lauren, Columbia University and Vitamin Shoppe.

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As an artist, Kathleen McDermott has created numerous absurdist wearable and robotic interfaces which she documents through video and performance and exhibits internationally. Completed projects have included a dress that produces a cloud of fog when the wearer is feeling stressed, and a mass of robots designed to take her houseplants into the sun. Her practice includes material experimentation using processes such as mold making, 3-D printing and laser cutting conductive materials, to expand the possibilities of soft interface design. Conceptually, she is interested in how concepts of identity, telepresence and care, informed by intersectional feminism, fashion, and media theory, can impact a broader dialogue about how technology will relate to our bodies in the future.

McDermott is currently collaborating with a team of researchers across NYU and University of Colorado, to develop and test custom wearable hardware and curricular content for use in creative education contexts such as dance and theater, with the goal of broadening participation in STEM fields, particularly among underrepresented communities

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Film/Video, Wearables, Physical Computing, Digital Fabrication/ Prototyping, Media Art, Performance, Solar and Renewable Energy, Product Design

Benedetta is a designer turned educator and humanitarian technologist. She was involved in international development projects for the past fifteen years, ever since her experience of surviving the Tsunami in Sri Lanka in 2004 and organizing relief efforts from the ground. She has been teaching for almost two decades in different disciplines and to different age groups, from STEM and Robotics courses to K-12 students to Ideation & Prototyping, HCI, Physical Computing and Global Engineering classes to undergraduate and graduate students.

She founded two R&D companies focused on producing sustainable solutions to global problems and through partnerships with Governments, large international organizations such as the UN and UNICEF, research institutions such as The Earth Institute at Columbia University and multiple NGOs, she has designed, prototyped and deployed projects in many countries such as the Netherlands, United States, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

Benedetta was recently Technologist in Residence at Cornell Tech and worked in the Connected Experiences Lab and Social Technologies Lab working on HCI research about physical resource sharing, remote visual awareness and technology tools for underserved communities. Previously she covered the position of Technology Architect for the Earth Institute and the Quadracci Sustainable Engineering Lab at Columbia University, working on projects focused on shared solar micro-grids and 24/7 water kiosks for the Millennium Villages Project.

Her design research practice focuses on applying participatory design methods, systems thinking and user-centered design towards the design and implementation of resilient networks, IoT devices, real-time monitoring systems and distributed infrastructure, to insure equitable access to life-sustaining resources. Benedetta is an Open Source advocate and is currently teaching and conducting research at NYU Tandon in the Integrated Digital Media Program.

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Materially, Scott works with code, electronics, networks, visual and aural media. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Middle East, China, Hong Kong, and throughout Europe. He has installed site-specific work at the University of Oslo and in New York City’s Times Square. Scott was a researcher with the audio art group Locus Sonus, the head of documentation for the open source Arduino platform, and a partner with Lightband Studios. He has lived in France, Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, and is based in Brooklyn, NY. He would like more cats in his life and fewer cars in the world.

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Academic Director IDM / Industry Associate Professor
Director of Online Programs
Global Network Arts Professor 
Technology, Culture and Society
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