Shawn Van Every

Shawn is an Associate Arts Professor and the Chair of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) consisting of a 45+ year old graduate program in emerging media known as ITP, the Interactive Media Arts (IMA) undergraduate program of which he was the founding Director, and IMA LowRes, a global low residency MA program. His teaching includes courses on live and participatory media, programming, web development, mobile technologies, and interactive telephony. In 2008 he was honored with the David Payne Carter award for excellence in teaching from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

His research and professional focus is on the development and use of emerging technologies related to media creation, distribution, and interaction.  His projects generally involve the development of tools that help democratize media making, distribution, and interactivity utilizing mobile and web based technologies. Lately he has been focused on building interactive real time and mobile applications for artists and activists, notably working in collaboration with CultureHub, Robert Whitman, The Guardian Project, and WITNESS.

He has demonstrated, exhibited and presented his work at many conferences and technology demonstrations and contributed to and written books on mobile application development.

Shawn holds a Master’s degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU and a Bachelor’s degree in Media Study from SUNY at Buffalo.