Attention prospective MFA Design + Technology students! Please join us for our annual graduate open studio. This event is a chance for prospective MFA students to learn about the program, check out current MFA student and alumni work, meet our faculty, and hear about exciting CDT research initiatives/opportunities.

Dec. 4
6:00PM-9:00PM
CDT Open Lab
2 W 13th St., 10th Floor

On Thursday, November 20 from 7-11pm, tech and fashion enthusiasts will gather at NYC’s Arena for an elite fashion and technology event. The evening will kick off with a panel hosted by celebrity stylist, Phillip Bloch (http://www.phillipbloch.com). A unique live fashion event produced by the House of Diehl (http://www.houseofdiehl.com) will follow, in which students from NYC’s top fashion design schools will compete to create couture designs on live models using Fujifilm photo prints. Open bar and food will be provided.

If you missed the first Ethan Zuckerman CDT lecture, you already missed 1/3 of your opportunity to soak your brain in the presence of prestigious thinkers who are leaders in the fields of Communication Design and Technology.

DON'T MISS ELI KUSLANSKY on Friday evening November 21st at 7:00 PM in the Kellen Auditorium--66 Fifth Avenue (or 2 W. 13th).

Among Mr. Kuslansky's Unified Field team's vast and memorable contributions is the Ask.com interactive globe wall in the Gehry IAC building across from Chelsea Piers. Through his work at Unified Field and in collaboration with industry associations and top universities, Kuslansky is creating a network of design labs to accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies, new ways of visualizing and understanding our planet, and powerful ways for communities to utilize new channels of communication.

Please join us for a talk by Ethan Zuckerman, the first installment of the CDT Lecture Series, sponsored by Communication Design + Technology at Parsons the New School for Design.

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
7:00PM to 9:00PM
65 W. 11th Street, Wollman Hall (5th floor)
Free and open to the public

Ethan Zuckerman is a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. His research in the field of information and communication technology for development includes work on telecommunications policy, free and open source software, and citizen media. With Rebecca MacKinnon, he is the cofounder of Global Voices (www.globalvoicesonine.org), an award-winning international community of webloggers and citizen journalists. Prior to his work with Berkman and Global Voices, Ethan founded Geekcorps (geekcorps.org), a volunteer organization which sent technology experts to work with ICT companies in the developing world. He is the former CTO of Tripod.com, a pioneering web hosting company based in Western Massachusetts, where he lives and works. He serves as advisor to several nonprofit projects that focus on technology and social change, and serves on the board of Open Society Institute's US Program.

CDT Faculty Paul Carlos' exhibition design, “Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture, 1925-1940” is currently on display at the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, (212) 534-1672, mcny.org, through Feb. 22.

From the New York Times: "In its latest exhibit, the Museum of the City of New York captures the beginning of the long liaison in fashion and design between Paris and New York."

CDT congratulates MFA DT Alums Alison Lewis and Fang-yu Lin on the release of their new book, SWITCH CRAFT!

SWITCH CRAFT is the ground-breaking book that demonstrates to women everywhere that blending craft and fashion with technology is not scary… but in fact a simple transition to new beautiful, usable, and fashionable expressions for their homes and wardrobes.

Digital Character Development: Theory and Practice by MFA DT Alum Rob O'Neill will be released Monday, November 10th, 2008.  Published by Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier), the textbook is a theoretical overview of character technology for animation and video games.

For more information on "Digital Character Development", reviews, related links, and digital character technology news, visit:

http://www.charactertechnology.com

CONSORTIA NIGHT: PROTOTYPING PLAY

PETLab presented by COLLEEN MACKLIN and the PETLab Research Team

WHEN: NOV. 05, 2008 (Wednesday)
TIME: 6:30pm
PLACE: CDT Lab

PETLab (Prototyping, Evaluation, Teaching and Learning Lab) emphasizing on prototyping – is the first public-interest game design and research laboratory for interactive media. PETLab develops new games, simulations, and play experiences which encourage experimental learning and investigation into social and global issues.

Thursday October 16
6:30 pm
10 th floor lab., 2 W 13th St.

On Oct 16, Tarek Atrissi, Lebanese-Dutch Designer running his own Netherlands based multi-disciplinary design studio, will be presenting his work often characterized with a strong cross cultural flavour. Tarek Atrissi, a graduate of the MFA Designer as entrepreneur program in New York, is one of the most recognized designers in the Arab World and working on inter-cultural projects, and his awards include the renowned Dutch Design award, The Type Directors Club, the Adobe Design Awards, among others. He is the co-author of “Visual Narratives from Arabia” published by Unesco in 2008; and a frequent lecturer in design schools and events around the world.

SMALLab presented by DAVID BIRCHFIELD

Fall CDT Consortia Night kicks-off with David Birchfield, who developed SMALLab (Situated Multimedia Art Learning Lab) – a mixed-reality learning environment.

Supported by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation, Institute of Play, headed by Katie Salen, and David's team from ASU’s K-12 Embodied Media and Learning group is collaborating on "Gaming SMALLab" located at Parsons CDT. The project seeks to harness strategic thinking around game design and embodied play as an innovative curricular and learning paradigm.

Student teams will work for 24-hours straight between noon Saturday, September 20 to noon Sunday, September 21 to build the "City of Parsons" in Sony Entertainment’s LittleBigPlanet.

THIS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26TH
Kellen Auditorium at 6:30 PM
66 Fifth Avenue, NY

Screening of "Magica Russica" with filmmakers Yonathan and Masha Zur Some of the most beautiful animations in cinema came out of Soviet Russia. Combining heartfelt moral allegory with astonishing craftsmanship, they had a power and sincerity to which much modern stuff pales. Drawing on masses of archive clips, including footage from rare classics, "Magia Russica" gathers surviving animators of the Soyuzmultfilm studio to give a passionate account of production under communist rule. A rich visual treat, this is also the story of the boundaries of art and ideology, and of men dedicated to magical cinema.

Thursday, September 18
7 pm, Swayduck Auditorium
65 5th Ave
(Will be screened along with Hugo Perez’s short film The Ecstasy)

CDT Faculty Pablo Medina's thirty minute documentary El Play tells the story of Jairo, a young aspiring baseball player from San Pedro de Macorís, a small city in The Dominican Republic famous for birthing some of the world’s most talented baseball players.