Last summer, a group of Parsons and Tsinghua University students took to the streets of Beijing and documented the city’s youth culture in an innovative new format: a typeface called Beijing… Read More
Design + Technology Student Thesis Wins MacArthur Grant
Congratulations to Design and Technology Alum Jonah Model, whose Design + Technology thesis project, Origami, won a Young Innovator’s Award in 2009’s Digital Media and Learning Competition, sponsored by the MacArthur… Read More
Uncategorized 01.11.10
Fine Arts Faculty Mira Schor Receives Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant
Congratulations to Mira Schor, AMT part-time faculty in Fine Arts, who is the recipient of a 2009 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her blog project, A Year of Positive… Read More
Uncategorized 01.11.10
AMT Faculty Martin Mazorra Receives United Artists Grant
Congratulations to AMT part-time faculty Martin Mazorra and his artistic partner Mike Houston, who have been selected as 2009 United States Artists (USA) fellows. USA is a grant-making, artists-advocacy organization dedicated… Read More
Uncategorized 01.11.10
Duke University to Archive Work by AMT Photo Instructor Vince Cianni
The Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University is acquiring AMT Photography Adjunct Instructor Vince Cianni’s photographic archives to “ensure the preservation of the documentary record created” throughout… Read More
Faculty News 01.08.10
AMT Photo Students Exhibit at Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
In coordination with the the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, students in Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology’s BFA program in Photography will show their work in a joint New York-Santa Fe… Read More
Exhibitions 01.08.10
AMT Illustration Faculty, Alumni Remix Pop Culture
2009 saw AMT faculty and Illustration Chair Steven Guarnaccia and AMT/Illustration Professor Nora Krug release new iterations of two children’s classics. In The Three Little Pigs (Corraini), Guarnaccia recasts famous architects… Read More
Faculty News 01.08.10
Parsons Illustration Students Selected for Illustrators 52
It is our pleasure to announce that Senior year Illustration Program students Garrett Pruter and Lulu Wolf have had one piece each selected to be in the Society of Illustrator’s Illustrators… Read More
Student News 01.08.10
PETLab in Senegal, Copenhagen
In December, PETLab, Parsons’ and Games for Change’s public interest game design and research lab , made international impact as two card games designed by the PETLab team for the international… Read More
Uncategorized 01.08.10
Professor Katie Salen Founds NYC Public School
New York City will be home to Quest to Learn, a new 6-12th grade public school that will use game-inspired methods to teach both traditional and critical 21st century skills and… Read More
Faculty News 01.07.10
China 2009: Collaborative Class in Beijing and Shanghai
Over the summer of 2009, principal AMT Faculty Benjamin Bacon, David Carroll, Simone Douglas, and Jim Ramer taught a collaborative class in Beijing and Shanghai of over 60 students from Parsons… Read More
Uncategorized 01.06.10
Nokia/CMC Fellowship Announcement
Offered by the Center for Mobile Creativity at Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology. Sponsored by Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto. Two $2,500 Fellowships are offered for the Spring 2010… Read More
Fellowships 12.15.09
When Fountainheads Collide: Lawrence Weschler on Robert Irwin
When Fountainheads Collide Lawrence Weschler on Robert Irwin & David Hockney Kellen Auditorium 66 5th Avenue, NYC 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9th Free and Open to the Public On the… Read More
Lectures 12.08.09
Parsons Screens Competition
Parsons Screens Competition The Parsons’ Sheila C. Johnson Design Center invites time based submissions for the Flat Panel LCD screens on the elevator bank at the corner of 2 W. 13th… Read More
competitions 12.07.09
Streaming Culture: Entangled Activisms
The early Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously claimed, “You can never step in the same river twice.” Comically, one of the rebuttals to this observation was, “You can never step in the… Read More
Uncategorized 12.03.09
Networked Design Talks: Tina Roth-Eisenberg
Networked Design Talks: Tina Roth Eisenberg Wednesday, Dec. 2, 6:30PM Kellen Auditorium 66 Fifth Ave. Free and open to the public In her talk, Brooklyn-based blogger, designer, and Parsons adjunct Tina… Read More
Uncategorized 12.01.09
Streaming Culture: Current Lecture Series
TUESDAYS @ the Kellen Auditorium Parsons the New School for Design 66 5th Avenue, ground floor 6:30pm 12/1: Colleen Macklin, Director, PET lab, Parsons, AMT + Ken Wark, Chair of Culture… Read More
Uncategorized 12.01.09
Sound Kapital and Visions of Modernity Lecture
Matthew Niederhauser Sound Kapital and Visions of Modernity Lecture Wednesday October 28 @ 6:30 PM Parsons The New School for Design, Art, Media, and Technology 2 West 13th St. 10th Floor… Read More
Uncategorized 10.23.09
AMT Faculty Melanie Crean and Thomas Bosket @ Vera List Events
Journal Launch Celebration: Where We Are Now, Issue 2: Speculating on Change Saturday, October 17, 2009 @ 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. Storefront for Art and Architecture 97 Kenmare Street Featuring a… Read More
Uncategorized 10.17.09
Usman Haque Lecture
Vast, floating clouds of helium balloons illuminated by LEDs—whose color you can change by calling them on your cell?! Floating skyscraper silhouettes held down by hundreds of people whose collective force… Read More
Uncategorized 10.02.09
