Social networks to cyber warsWorks from Parsons The New School for Design’s MFA Design and Technology Program on view May 8 – 24 |
NEW YORK, MAY 8 – As part of the third annual Parsons Festival, the public will be able to see installations, performances, interactive objects, apps, games and video produced by graduating students from the MFA Design and Technology program at Parsons The New School for Design. Current and past students have gone on to great success, producing best-selling apps like Doodle Jump and Pennant, developing popular open-source programing systems like openFRAMEWORKS, and pathbreaking projects for people with disabilities, like EyeWriter. MFA DT is taking part in several major events: the The MFA Design and Technology thesis exhibition, the Art, Media, and Technology Annual 2013, and The MFA Design and Technology Symposium, which will feature a talk from Joi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab and an early supporter of revolutionary online businesses like Twitter, Kickstarter, and Flickr. At all of these events, the public will have a chance to see what the people who’ll shape their industries tomorrow are up to today. These exhibits feature almost 100 works from graduating MFA students, running the gamut from practical to conceptual, from serious works concerned with social justice to pieces with more whimsical ambitions. Selected pieces on view include: New Sensory Pathways for the Plastic Mind by Aisen Caro Chacin, which explores ways for you to hear with your tongue or see with your ears; Cyclee, a mobile web platform where cyclists can share routes or plan projects, from Matthew Wilse; Pivot, a skateboarding project from Joseph Volpe which tracks tricks performed by its user and sends that data to a game its users can play in real time; Open Source Food, a satirical project from Maya Weinstein that instructs its users how to make their own high-fructose corn syrup; and My Very First Cyber War, by Samuel Snider-Held, which draws attention to the ease of cyber warfare tactics by collecting everything someone would need to attack a foreign government in a box no bigger than a board game. These works, and many more, will be on display throughout May. A full event listing is available at the Parsons Festival website. Full details of all MFA DT thesis projects are available at their website. Parsons DT students are also involved in gadjIteration, an event being held May 11 that encourages middle-school-aged New Yorkers to learn about physical computing and interaction design. The event focuses on turning discarded electronic devices, plastic toys, and boxes into contraptions that beep, buzz, and light up: teddy bears with flashing eyes, dolls with beating hearts, and more. MFA DT students have been working in a class of the same name for the Spring 2013 semester, helping to train high-school-aged students who will lead the workshops at the May 11th event. About MFA DT About Parsons The New School for Design
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