Spend your Saturdays (and the occasional Sunday) leveling-up fast: each one- or two-day workshop takes you from zero to a finished prototype in creative technology, interactive media, or virtual production. All classes are hands-on, taught by industry-active artists, with class sizes designed for plenty of individual feedback.
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| Duration | General Admission | NYU Students |
| 1-Day Workshop | $250 | $125 |
| 2-Day Workshop | $500 | $250 |
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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.
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 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.
