Meet the SIR's

One way to keep our culture energized and the spirit of research ingrained at ITP is a program we call Somethings In Residence (SIRs). We can attract people who are doing work at the edge of the leading edge who seek the creative environment of ITP. They might be artists, scientists, data visualizers, social media researchers, biotech inventors…hence, the awkward but accurate name. Sometimes they’ve made art as an example to model the creative process. Other times they’ve created a tool or leave behind a lab. They interact with students in a few ways: they teach a class; they may give a talk on their work; they may invite students to participate in their research. We would especially like to thank Microsoft Research for funding this program.

https://tisch.nyu.edu/itp/itp-people/faculty/somethings-in-residence-sirs

Come hear about this semester's SIRs:

Pedro Galvao Cesar de Oliveira

My research explores the consequences of the increasing number of intelligent personal assistants, conversational AI and connected devices. I am investigating the gray line between digital and physical interfaces and the social challenges of designing for emerging technologies. In my research, I’m exploring different scenarios where these technologies present bias towards different racial groups, gender, age, political affiliation, philosophy and beliefs.

Ron Morrison

“Decoding Possibilities” 

Ron Morrison will present new work that explores the dynamics between black feminist geographies and racialized space. Interested in how particular methods of rendering and conceptualizing racialized space obscures the messy entanglements of power, encounter, domination, and improvisation that constitutes what geographer Katherine McKittrick calls, "a black sense of place,”  this experimental project meditates on redlining, a a popular narrative of post WWII  economic segregation and a conceptual framework that is often engaged to explain contemporary patterns of poverty and racial segregation. Ron engages this questions in this new work that considers black queer, trans, and feminist geographies alongside the 1935 HOLC maps to create a space of speculation on the contemporary impact of red-lining. "Decoding Possibilities," present maps that disrupt the racist view of the HOLC map and consider how black people created networks and infrastructure that both took advantage of the ways that red-lining enshrined economic and social devaluation of black neighborhoods.