Tag: NYU
NYU undergrad Chris Cole’s final project for one of his classes was a short film about a college student obsessed with the rapper Drake. The film shares its title with Drake’s most recent release, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, but where Drake’s use of the title is inscrutable, Cole’s is clear: If you’re […]
“If you want to hang on to mistakes I made 25 years ago, that’s your prerogative,” Jordan Belfort — the rich asshole Leonardo DiCaprio played in The Wolf Of Wall Street — told a packed auditorium run by the 92nd Street Y and NYU’s School of Law on Wednesday night. But he’s also really sorry. After ratting out […]
New York University is planning on posting fliers advertising free sex therapy for students in all of their dorms this fall. DNAinfo reports: “Having problems related to SEX?” the fliers ask in large, bold letters, listing issues including “difficulty reaching orgasm” and “difficulty communicating your sexual needs.” The fliers then refer students to the Program […]
Last month, New York State Education Department approved a new degree at NYU‘s Tisch School of the Arts through the NYU Game Center. The school will soon be accepting applicants for a new Bachelor of Fine Arts in Video Game Design. Game Center will accept 20 students into the program in January 2015 and a freshman class of […]
When NYU began constructing their satellite campus in Abu Dhabi, a region notoirous for exploiting migrant workers, the school’s representatives vocal about protecting the rights of those hired to build it. They promised that the workers would live in safe and decent conditions, hold onto their passports and have the right to object to unfair […]
The two-day Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) graduate showcase at NYU was a madhouse, with some 100 projects on view, ranging from groundbreaking innovations to timely trinkets. Here are the highlights of recent works from the international group of artists, programmers and technologists. There were several game-based projects, but Omer Shapira’s 4D-gaming concept for Horizon blew me away (above). The […]
An NYU student who died of an apparent suicide on Tuesday has been identified as 18-year-old Rowen Altenburger. The young artist from New Jersey was staying at the Bryant Park Hotel when her mother called staff and asked them to check on the teen. They discovered Altenburger with a plastic bag over her head at about […]
For her ITP class project, NYU student/designer Xuedi Chen used 3D-printing software and chia seeds to spawn these mossy fashion accessories. Their origins are somewhat grotesque: The Invasive Growth Series was directly inspired by a parasitic fungus. The cordyceps operates by infecting an insect with spores, growing inside the insect while performing a sort of “mind control” […]
Who else to teach “Creative Activism” than the Yes Men, who conned the world into thinking Dow Chemical publcily apologized for the Bhopal disaster for a minute there? Since the duo started Yes Lab, we had hopes they’d be training an army of righteous con-men. Tonight, NYU will be hosting “WNV Salon: Resisting Oppression, Both Real and […]
In the spirit of promoting “geographic diversity,” NYU will not allow incoming freshmen to choose their roommates, starting with the 2013-14 class. In fact, they’re completely changing the method used to place first-year students. Rather than taking potential compatibility into account, the school’s new housing policy will match up classmates in the seven first-year residence […]
