Creative Resistance Workshop

CREATIVE RESISTANCE WORKSHOP

Friday, February 25, 12-2:30pm ET (Zoom) - new (and final) date & time!

This event is only for our current NYU Tisch ITP/IMA Students, ITP/IMA Faculty, and ITP/IMA Staff.

This workshop is part of an ongoing series designed to bring artists working with technology together in small groups to talk through notions of creative resistance and critical art practice: what it means, how they practice it, what it does well, and where it might fall short of bringing about structural change.

Together, we will discuss and evaluate the ups and downs of the strategies and technologies we use, and work to draft a manifesto detailing the things that are important to us, the commitments we are willing to make in our practices, and the changes we'd like to see in the tech art landscape.

This version of the workshop is only open to the ITP/IMA community. Participation will be capped at 12 people in order to preserve intimacy within the session. To RSVP, email roopa.vasudevan@nyu.edu.

BIO
Roopa Vasudevan is a media artist, computer programmer and researcher, currently based in the part of Lenapehoking now known as Philadelphia. Her practice examines social and technological defaults; interrogates rules, conventions and protocols that we often ignore or take for granted; and centers humanity and community in explorations of technology’s impacts on society. Her work has been supported by Eyebeam (Brooklyn, NY), ABC No Rio (New York, NY), the Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives (Haverford, PA), SOHO20 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), SPACES (Cleveland, OH), China Residencies, and Flux Factory (Queens, NY). She is currently a member artist at Vox Populi, a 30+ year old collectively run arts space in Philadelphia; and a member of NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for creative technology. Roopa received an MPS from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2013; between 2016 and 2018, she was an Assistant Arts Professor of Interactive Media Arts at NYU Shanghai. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is researching the relationships between tech institutions and new media artists.