Category: Courses

This course explores how artificial intelligence shapes, alters, and redefines human communication. From automated text generation and predictive algorithms to synthetic media and algorithmic interfaces, we will examine the social, cultural, and political dimensions of AI systems. Through critical reading, …

This course evaluates how digital media technologies have fundamentally transformed corporate communication by challenging the theoretical and strategic perspectives on the subject. Topics covered in the course include the shift from one-way to two-way communication, online marketing techniques, viral …

This course examines communications technology from a media perspective.     Students develop knowledge and skills as they design and produce media projects in the areas of networked, interactive, and graphic communications.

Semesters and Institutions Taught:

Lehman College, Fall 2020

Lehman …

The Capstone course is the final project for all graduating students. The course offers students an opportunity to increase their impact and effectiveness as a leader. Students develop an initiative for a real-life project that can be work, community, or …

This course covers contemporary media industries, including print, broadcast, and new media. Particular attention to the economic and social conditions influencing industrial configurations and outputs, and vice versa.

Semesters and Institutions Taught:

Lehman College, Spring 2018

Lehman College, Spring 2020…

This course explores various forms of media and digital culture and how they have evolved over the years. Topics include the effects of media culture on the population at large,  the loss of print media, the advent of music and …

This course focuses on creative network practices through a critical examination of culture, media, society, and art.

“Designing Critical Networks” is a course that introduces students to networked art practice, hacking networks, and the critical examination of culture, media, …

This course explores the uses and influences of media in society.  We examine the role of the media and communications technologies in the formation of global culture, ethics, political opinion, and celebrity identity. Students explore the following topics: The emergence …

This course explores the evolution of new communication technologies  how they are integrated into society by the media, and how they end up changing our lives. It is an introduction to blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking tools used …

This course explores the  production of news web sites. It also covers the techniques for managing multimedia and social media content. Students review the web’s best news sites along with the latest methods and tools used to build them – …

This course is an introduction to analyzing content across print and electronic multilingual media. It focuses on the growth and diversity of these media; the role they play in the lives of those who use them, and gives students the …

This course evaluates how digital technologies have fundamentally transformed marketing.

Aspects covered in the course include, the shift from one-way to two-way communication, online marketing techniques, viral campaigns, social media invasion, search engine optimization, and how web analytics are used …

Interface design workshop for engaging electronics with urban wildlife.

This workshop was co-organized by Eyebeam and the Wildlife Conservation Society and focused on the creative use and misuse of recycled electronics, gadgets, computers and their integration with urban wildlife. Students …

I taught this 6 week summer course at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in NYC about hardware hacking to teens from Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx during the summer of 2013.

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This class had students build a networked electronics vending machine.

This class consisted of an independent study that I ran with 8 students to build a networked Electronic Vending Machine for digital components that would be deployed at Parsons. The …

This lecture course is designed as an introduction to comprehending design as a mode of acting in the century that is now emerging around us. The course is an exercise in thinking out the likely underlying tendencies of this century …

Taught with Katherine Moriwaki

This Collaboration Studio examines the practice of recycling and artistic production through urban exploration and hacking or rethinking of public spaces. As the world’s landfills swarm with millions of tons of discarded electronics, the examination of …

This course evaluates new communication channels that evolved with the rise of information technology and digital connectivity. Topics cover areas such as social media, crowdsourcing, open source, mobile technology, ubiquitous computing, wireless networks, and the Internet of Things.

Semesters and …

This course introduces students to critical design practice by creating objects, projects, and public interventions
I  taught this course from 2010 to 2014 in the MFA Design and Technology Program at Parsons The New School for Design and  is the …

The New Media Research Studio course was devoted to the research of new communication channels that evolved with the rise of information technology and digital connectivity. I taught this class at NYU Department of Media, Communications, and Culture at New …

Drawbot is a drawing system that anyone can use without having to learn electronics. It is a simple bot that mixes standard drawing materials (in this case magic markers) with weighted motors and plastic cups. When the cups vibrate, they …

Co-taught with Katherine Moriwaki

This course was a hands on introduction to physical computing and custom controllers for interactive media. Students developed prototypes using simple and ordinary found materials. We discussed technologies surrounding electronic prototyping and concentrated on the …

Hardware hacking and interface design workshops held globally…

This course explored connections between basic electronic circuits and the physical world, especially through digital networks. This was a hands on prototyping and design course.

Co-Taught with Matt Karau

Semesters Taught:

Spring 2003

Picking up from where Electronics for Artists …

Instructors:

Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Katherine Moriwaki
Jennica Falk
Michael Lew

Location: Media Lab Europe

Have you ever wanted to experiment with computers and interactivity beyond the screen? This workshop was a two-day intensive, hands-on workshop into the realm of building electronic …

This summer course facilitated the creative use of the Web as a medium for new artistic, journalistic, personal, and commercial projects. The class format was a combination of technical lectures, troubleshooting sessions, and some critiques. We began with a thorough …