Integrated Design & Media

Category: Faculty

  • Maggie Jack

    Maggie Jack

    Maggie researches technology and work in a global context. Maggie primarily uses qualitative methods including ethnography, interviews, design research, participant observation, and archival review. Her scholarly work is in conversation with the fields of Science and Technology Studies (STS), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and design. She also contributes to popular conversations about the changing nature of work and the ethical dimensions of emerging technologies. In her teaching, Maggie encourages design and engineering students to use humanistic methods and perspectives to critically analyze and imagine futures for the impacts of technology on society.

    Maggie’s first book Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology was published in the Labor and Technology series at the MIT Press in May 2023. The book describes how Cambodian media workers after the Khmer Rouge repaired film and radio infrastructures, and how contemporary new media workers find and repair media artifacts from before the war period and disseminate them (often) using social media.

    Maggie holds a PhD in Information Science from Cornell University, an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, and a BA in History and Science from Harvard College. In previous lives, she worked in the international development sector and as a financial analyst in the technology-media-telecom sector in Silicon Valley.

  • Dave Parisi

    Dave Parisi

    David Parisi is the Dibner Family Chair in the History and Philosophy of Technology and Science and Associate Professor in the Department of Technology, Culture, and Society. His research investigates the past, present, and future of touching with digital technologies. Parisi’s book Archaeologies of Touch: Interfacing with Haptics from Electricity to Computing (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) explores the technological transformations of touch necessary for the invention of touch-based computer interfaces. Opening with an examination of touch’s role in apprehending the mysteries of eighteenth century electrical machines, and closing with an analysis of new computing technologies that digitally synthesize haptic sensations, Archaeologies of Touch traces the iterative development of a technoscientific haptics across four centuries. Along the way, he shows how electric shock, experimental psychology, cybernetics, aesthetics, telemanipulation robotics, and virtual reality each participated in a reconceptualization of touch necessary for its integration into contemporary computing technologies. Parisi’s work has been published in venues such as Real Life, Logic, Open!, ROMchip, New Media & Society, Journal of Games Criticism, Convergence, and Game Studies. His perspectives on the intersection of touch and digital media have been featured on Flash Forward, The Haptics Club, Internet of the Senses, and INIT. He currently serves as an editor for ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories.

  • Danya Glabau

    Danya Glabau

    Danya Glabau is a medical anthropologist and STS scholar researching health activism, the medical economy, and how human bodies become valuable data. She directs the Technology Ethics undergraduate curriculum at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and also teaches in the Integrated Design and Media graduate program. She earned her PhD from the Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at Cornell University.

    Her first book, Food Allergy Advocacy: Parenting and the Politics of Care (2022, University of Minnesota Press), examined how food allergy activists get involved in scientific research and political advocacy, and how race, class, and gender shape their advocacy goals. Her second book, Cyborg (2024, MIT Press; co-authored with Laura Forlano, Northeastern University), offers a 21st century introduction to cyborg theory in contexts like work, medicine and disability, art and design, and feminist theory. Her latest research investigates how new parents use parenting advice, with a focus on how digital resources, apps, and devices shape modern ideas about what makes a “good” parent.

  • Magdalena Fuentes

    Magdalena Fuentes

    Magdalena is Assistant Professor of Music Technology and Integrated Design & Media at the Music and Audio Research Lab (MARL) and Integrated Design & Media (IDM) at New York University (NYU). Previosly, she was a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow at MARL and the Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP) at NYU. Magdalena did her Ph.D. at Université Paris Saclay in France, in the ADASP group at Télécom ParisTech, and L2S at CentraleSupélec. Before that, she obtained a B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering at Universidad de la República, Uruguay, where she also worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Engineering School and the Music School.

    Her research interests include Machine Listening, Human-Centered Machine Learning, Multimodal Representation Learning, Self-Supervised Learning, Music Information Retrieval and Environmental Sound Analysis.

  • De Angela Duff

    De Angela Duff

    De Angela L. Duff is currently an Industry Professor in Integrated Digital Media (IDM) at NYU Tandon & an Associate Vice Provost at New York University (NYU). She was formerly the Co-Director of Integrated Digital Media from 2013-2018. Teaching in higher education since 1999, she is very passionate about educating students at the intersection of design, art and technology. She was acknowledged for this passion by being awarded the NYU Tandon School of Engineering’s 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award. Over the last 15 years (and counting), one of her other passions is creating, developing and evaluating higher education curriculum in the emerging media and technology space, first at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and subsequently at Spelman College and New York University. She has also been in higher education administration since 2009. 

    A native of Eutaw, Alabama, De Angela’s mission is to share her passion for music, photography, technology, creativity, and productivity with others. She curates music symposia and produces, co-hosts, and edits the Prince & Prince-related podcasts for Grown Folks Music. She has organized the following symposia: Prince BATDANCE symposium (2019) at Spelman and Prince EYE NO: Lovesexy (2018) and Betty Davis They Say I’m Different (2018), both at NYU Tandon. She also co-produced the Peach + Black panel (2017) for the 30th anniversary of Prince’s Sign ‘O’ The Times also at NYU Tandon. She is currently co-producing her next Prince symposium, DM40/GB30, for the 40th anniversary of Dirty Mind and the 30th anniversary of Graffiti Bridge (2020) at NYU, alongside the NYU Institute for African American Affairs and the Center for Black Visual Culture. 

    De Angela speaks at numerous conferences internationally. She will be speaking on two panels at the upcoming Black Portraiture[s] V conference at NYU. She has spoken at the Prince from MPLS symposium, Purple Reign: An interdisciplinary conference on the life and legacy of Prince, EYEO, Black Portraiture[s] IV, III, II & II: Revisited, NYC’s Creative Tech Week & Raising The Bar, AIGA’s Social Studies and Massaging Media 2 Conferences, and HOW’s Annual Design Conference. She has judged Eyebeam’s Trust Residency, Tribeca Film Institute’s New Media Fund, and HOW’s interactive design competition. Her work has been featured in publications such as HOW and Print magazines, and the books, Now Loading and www.animation: Animation Design for the World Wide Web. She has served on Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s committee to re-brand Philadelphia and participated in the Free Library of Philadelphia’s Website Brainstorming Charette. 

    De Angela has a lot of academic and industry experience at the intersection of design, art, and technology. Prior to returning to NYU in 2019, she was the Co-Director of Spelman’s Innovation Lab from 2018-2019, and, prior to joining Spelman, the Co-Director of the undergraduate and graduate programs in Integrated Digital Media (IDM) and an Industry Associate Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn from 2013-2018. Prior to joining NYU Tandon, De Angela was the Program Director and an Associate Professor of Design, Art & Technology (formerly Multimedia) and Web Development & Interaction Design within the College of Art, Media & Design, as well as an Interim Co-Director of the School of Design at The University of the Arts (UArts) in Philadelphia, PA. Prior to UArts, she was an Art Director for Nettmedia, an NYC interactive design firm. Notable Projects included art direction and lead design of BowieNet version 2.0, davidbowie.com, as well as the design and development of a myriad of websites for the likes of The Roots, Britney Spears, Alicia Keys, and many, many others.

    Research Interests: Creativity (creative process and practice)
    Design
    Popular Music Culture (Prince and Betty Davis)
    Photographic Archives
    Time Management and Productivity Systems
    Course Management Systems

    Education

    Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) 1992
    Bachelor of Science, Textiles

    Georgia State University 1996
    Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design

    Maryland Institute College of Art (MiCA) 2007
    Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art (Photography)

    Affiliations

    Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (BxMC)

    Courses Taught

    Graduate

    • DM-GY 6053 Ideation & Prototyping (Tandon Online)
    • DM-GY 6053 Ideation & Prototyping
    • DM-GY 6193 Web Studio
    • DM-GY 997X MS Thesis in Digital Media

    Undergraduate

    • DM-UY 1123 Visual Foundation Studio
    • DM-UY 1143 Ideation & Prototyping
    • DM-UY 2173 Motion Graphics Studio
    • DM-UY 2193 Intro to Web Development
    • DM-UY 3193 Dynamic Web Applications
    • DM-UY 4003 Senior Project in Digital Media
    • DM-UY 4173 Professional Practices for Creatives

    Contact

    EMAIL
    deangela.duff@nyu.edu

    WEBSITE
    http://polishedsolid.com

    OFFICE HOURS
    By appointment

    OFFICE
    370 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY

  • Ahmed Ansari

    Ahmed Ansari

    Bio

    Dr. Ahmed Ansari has a doctorate in Design Studies (History, Theory, Criticism) from Carnegie Mellon University, a masters in Interaction Design, and a bachelors in Communication Design from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture.

    His research interests intersect between design studies and history, philosophy of technology, and critical cultural studies, particularly studies of decolonisation and globalization, with an area focus on visual and material culture in the Indian subcontinent. He is also interested more generally in theories of socio-technical change and systemic design, in knowledge production and dissemination through design ethnography, particularly with regards to the ethics and politics of design practice, and in questions of mind, body, and mediation.

    He is a founding member of the Decolonising Design platform and the Architecture Design Research Lab in Karachi, and is also engaged in academic consulting focusing on curriculum development at the undergraduate level, having helped design the curricula for programs at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture and Habib University in Karachi. He recently helped organize the third North American PhD by Design Symposium in S2020, which brought together educators and scholars from around the world to think about doctorates in design and give doctoral candidates a platform through which to share their work and connect with each other. He has been very active in public education, and often teaches public courses and conducts transnational reading groups like the recent Design Baithak series.

    TOOLS + MEDIUMS OF PRODUCTION
    Film/Video, Photography, Games, Visual Communications /Graphic Design, Animation, User Experience, Product Design, Service Design, Systemic Design

    METHODS + APPROACHES
    User-Centered Design, STS, Digital Humanities, Social Practice, Participatory Design, Speculative Design, Critical Design, Decolonising Design, Cosmotechnics

    TOPICS + THEMES
    User Experience, Media Studies, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Civic Technology / Service Design, Sustainability, Social Justice, Gender Theory, Human Computer Interaction, Social Practice, Education, New Materialism, Cybernetic Theory, Systems Design, Posthumanism

    ahmedansari.com/
    researchgate.net/profile/Ahmed-Ansari-7/research
    decolonisingdesign.com
    Twitter