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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

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.

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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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