Category: Get to know IDM

  • Featured student Tamanda Msosa

    Featured student Tamanda Msosa

    Tamanda is a creative technologist/tinkerer and student of life who creates installations, things and experiences using physical computing and functional programming interdisciplinarily. He has an MS in Integrated Digital Media from NYU Tandon and BTech in Emerging Media from New York City College of Technology. He has previously showcased his work at Maker Faire 2017 and NYC Media Lab 2018. His recent collaborations include working with Pioneer Works to assist Carolyn Lazard in her “Extended Stay” 2019 Whitney Biennial piece and Meriem Bennani’s “Mission Teens” piece as well. Other notable art events include assisting Wild Flags Studios with building their “Footprints” 2019 Venice Biennale installation. He has also assisted Smooth Technology in building and setting up the 2019 Nerf Ultra One Championship in NYC.


    In his leisure time he can be found skateboarding where he draws appreciation for the culture, physical aspect of things and people which in turn informs his design and creative process.


    His independent work includes assisting Doreen Garner with the technology inside her “Heard From Her Larynx: Sandra” centerfold at JTT Gallery located in the Lower East Side and creating the visuals for Venus Chun’s Earth element for her “THE FIVE ELEMENTS” show at Jump Into The Light in the same vicinity. In his leisure time he can be found skateboarding where he draws appreciation for the culture and physical aspect of things and people which in turn informs his design and creative process.

    Follow Tamanda @ghost_in_tha_machine

  • IDM Alum Diana Castro Featured for her Mindful Accessories and Design Label Ser Paraiso

    IDM Alum Diana Castro Featured for her Mindful Accessories and Design Label Ser Paraiso

    Diana Castro Sitting Cross Legged and Smiling  Photo by Itzel Alejandra Martinez for Remezcla
    Diana Castro Sitting Cross Legged and Smiling Photo by Itzel Alejandra Martinez for Remezcla

    Diana Castro an NYU IDM 2015 Alum has been doing amazing work in design, music, and tech. Her idea for Ser Paraiso came about when she created a music box for meditation as her thesis at IDM. That’s when she started Ser Paraíso — formerly known as Magic Objects (2013) — as a project to make sound objects for spiritual purposes.

    Moon Soft Synth a soft circuit synthesizer handmade with fabric, yarn, mirrors and pompons by Diana Castro in collaboration with Javier Molina
    Moon Soft Synth a soft circuit synthesizer handmade with fabric, yarn, mirrors and pompons by Diana Castro in collaboration with Javier Molina

    She works in digital spaces where she designs web apps for music making with the MusEDLab (NYU Music Experience Design Lab) as well as physical ones, for example with the electronic textile synthesizers she creates for her project Mágico Real, which explores shamanism, ritual, and identity through performance, new media and technology.

    Paper MIDI made in collaboration in collaboration with MusEDLab and Novalia UK
    Paper MIDI made in collaboration in collaboration with MusEDLab and Novalia UK

    Her project Magico Real was recently featured in a remezcla article where they discuss her history with art, music, and design. Her work threads along multiple mediums but always centers around her own embrace of healing, spirituality, and a desire to help people connect with their higher selves.

    Diana Castro's notepads and notebooks Photo by Itzel Alejandra Martinez for Remezcla
    Diana Castro’s notepads and notebooks
    Photo by Itzel Alejandra Martinez for Remezcla

    She has installation, album covers, and mixtapes that she uses to explore her creativity. You can find those works and more on her at her website: https://panali.cc/. or on her instagram.

  • IDM Grad Melody Loveless Contributing to the Audiovisual, Code Generative Music Scene

    IDM Grad Melody Loveless Contributing to the Audiovisual, Code Generative Music Scene

    IDM grad, Melody Loveless, was mentioned in this vice article as a participant in the live coding scene in America. She’s using her programming and musical skills to create soundscapes using iterative code and technologies like Max/MSP/Jitter and hardware like sonic pi.

    If you wanna explore the scene of live coding mixed with music and hardware definitely check out synchrony an organizer of demoparties in NYC.

    Also feel free to check out some soundscapes from Melody Loveless.

  • Motion Design @ IDM

    Motion Design @ IDM

    Our motion graphics class, taught by Tim Szetela, took inspiring album covers and put them in motion. Here are some of the amazing results and the students who made them!

    Dirty Computer by Janelle Monae
    Motion by Gina Chee
    Flower Boy by Tyler the Creator
    Motion by Shehara Ranasinghe
    Art of Love by Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles
    Motion by Luke Koppenheffer
    Thrill of The Arts by Vulfpeck
    Motion by Yurou Zeng
    Ahmed Razin
    Alice Chen
    Christy Chan
    Ethan Wong
    Gayatri Nanda
    Izaac Crayton
    Janesa Chan
    Joann Pilika
    Joanna Chen
    Joon Choi
    Joris Kwong
    Linda Kamau
    Michael Vestal
    Shiny Wu
    Yiqi Chang
    Alice Berardi
    Amy Lee
    Maya Goyle
    Carissa Phong
    Derek Dincer
    Jasmine Sun
    Chenchen Zhou
    Lihao Wang
    Mari Calderon
    Jordan Kane
    Kasper Chou
    Maxine Kho
    Michelle Tabansi
    Mayda Pena
    Nicolai Cardinale
    Prakriti Joshi
    Yitao He
    Yuming Lu