TEACHING
Part Time Assistant Professor, Masters Thesis Studio I & II
Parsons the New School for Design
School of Art, Media and Technology
Design & Technology Program 2001 – present
amt.parsons.edu
Masters Thesis Studio I & II courses, Physical Computing Major Studio courses, Physical Computing I & II courses and Digital Musical Instrument course. Projects related to digital sensor-based electronic prototyping and interface design, embedded/ubiqutous/pervasive computing, AR/VR/3D, mixed media physical installations, digital musical instruments. Students come from a wide variety of backgrounds, including: visual art, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, programming, music, film, education, sociology etc. His students have won numerous leading international design/media and art awards, such as Ars Electronica Golden Nica, Red Dot, IF, AIGA, Adobe Web Design, Golden Web, Cologne Design Award, Nokia Mindtrek, Good Design Award, and Future Everything Award, to name a few.
Channel NY1 Adam Balkin coverage of the Parsons MFA Design Technology 2005 Masters Thesis Show
Channel NY1 Adam Balkin coverage of the Parsons MFA Design Technology 2004 Masters Thesis Show
Masters Thesis projects overseen as a Thesis Studio Professor during Master’s Thesis Studio I & II classes, with writing instructor Loretta Wolozin:
SPRING 2013 Thesis Studio II PGTE 5301C PARSONS 2013 MASTERS FINAL THESIS EXHIBITION WWW SITE
Aisen Caro Chacin: New Sensory Pathways for the Plastic Mind
Elizabeth Clare: Interactive Installation
Catalina Cortazar Valdez: Search: Installation commenting on Internet Search
Noa Dolberg: Gadgets for the Caveman
Michael Gonzalez: Musical Harmony Teaching Interface
Brian McFadden: Dedicated HW/SW GIF Presentation System
Juan Patino: Pulsed Electromagnetic Healing Device and Controller
Jeremy Peterson: Portable Visual Performance Control System
Alex Owen Staudt: Customizable Open Source Modular Controller
Matthew Willse: Communal Bicyclist Interface
Boshan Zhou: Gestural three dimensional interface
FALL 2012 Thesis Studio I PGTE 5300
Aisen Caro Chacin: New Sensory Pathways for the Plastic Mind
Elizabeth Clare: Interactive Installation
Norman Diaz: Parametrically Designed Lamp
Michael Gonzalez: Musical Harmony Teaching Interface
Jonas Maaloee Jespersen: Game based Writing Engine
Juan Patino: Pulsed Electromagnetic Healing Device and Controller
Jeremy Peterson: Portable Visual Performance Control System
Conor Russomanno: Open Source Brain Interface Thesis Blog
Alex Owen Staudt: Customizable Open Source Modular Controller
Yinan Zhang: Visiting student: Live Piano Projection Mapping System
SPRING 2012 Thesis Studio II PGTE 5301 PARSONS 2012 FINAL MASTERS THESIS EXHIBITION WWW SITE
Alex Koplin: GenreCodex: An Interactive Platform for exploring electronic music
Caitlin A. Morris: Eros/ion
Leif Percifield: Dont Flush Me
Domenick Propati: RGBeatz: Color based drumsticks
Philippe Ramet: Smartshop
Briana Rubin: Verschrankung: Tangles with the Teacup
Catherine Strassman: Knitztape, Knitztape WWW site
Elizabeth Taylor: Prisms
Ming-Che Tu Thomas: Dental Play: Naked Mouth
Lucas Vickers: You Can Not Live in the Present Moment, You Can Not Live in the Future: Installation
Kate Watkins: Little Shadows
Mary Heather Wylie: Biotic Bracelet
FALL 2011 Thesis Studio I PGTE 5300
Michelle Calabro: Equals: Conflict Resolving Interactive Sculpture
Michelle Kirby: The Eternal Return: Visualization
Caitlin A. Morris: Eros/ion
Domenick Propati: RGBeatz: Color based drumsticks
Briana Rubin: Verschankung: Tangles with the Teacup
Maxim Safioulline: Eloe
Catherine Strassman: Knitztape, Knitztape WWW site
Elizabeth Taylor: Prisms
Ming-Che Tu Thomas: Dental Play: Naked Mouth
Kate Watkins: Little Shadows
Mary Heather Wylie: Biotic Bracelet
SPRING 2011 Thesis Studio II PGTE 5301 PARSONS 2011 FINAL MASTERS THESIS EXHIBITION WWW SITE
Richard Bieg Live Data Games: Games without Pause
Brett Burton: Neptus Fullerene Algae Synthesizer
Se Hee Choe: VTour Parsons
Bryant Davis: Tape loop installation
Nour Diab Yunes: Affective Resonance: (e)mergent thought-fields in temporary social space
Christopher Driscoll:
Daniel S. Geiger: Geiger Mountain Tracker – Sensorbased Snowboard
Shin Hyoung Han: Fundlife
Young Eun Min: Yut Play iPad game
Ta-En Kuo: Recovery Guru: iPhone appliation for promoting resilience after a breakup
Ramsey Nasser: Zajal, new programming language Zajal project WWW Site
Nayong Park: Interactive Augmented Reality Aquarium Interface
Ashley Parkin: Noco: Blackness Without the Burden Fashion brand
Manuel Rueda Iragorri: Self Assembling Emergency Housing
FALL 2010 Thesis Studio I PGTE 5300
Nour Diab Yunes: Wholeness of Thought: participatory environment using neurofeedback and ferrofluid
Ashley Parkin: Noco: Blackness Without Burden Fashion brand
Manuel Rueda Iragorri: Self Assembling Emergency Housing
Brett Burton: Algae Synthesizer
Ta-En Kuo Recovery Guru: iPhone appliation for promoting resilience after a breakup
Jose Castro: Game On: Interactive web-based mobile application for soccer fans
Spencer Black: Fashion and Identity: Transformative Fashion for Customizing Expression
Haeyoung Kim AKA “Bubblyfish”: Moori: System for creating dynamic narrative audiovisual performance
Seul Lee: Animation on Korean re-unification
Xi “Nancy” Lan: MusicPet – A Rehabilitation game for Stroke Survivors
Ishita Shah: Community Based Carbon Monoxide Pollution Monitor and Visualizer, final spring thesis Lighthouse
Daniel Ward: SLamp Parabolic Speaker Lamp, final spring thesis Radial sound installation
SPRING 2010 Thesis Studio II PGTE 5301 C 2010 FINAL THESIS EXHIBITION WWW SITE
Maryam Abou Khater: Instar: A multi-sensorial installation
Michael Ballard: Win/Win Charitable Virtual and Physical Slot Machines
Bruce Drummond, Nicholas Hardeman: Social Sqncr: Interactive Audio-visual ecosystem manipulated with gestures and touch
Clayton Ewing: Hustling Health Care game
Denise Flasz Halfen: Intangible
Seung Kang: Byte_Reuse A User-generated game with recycled digital data
Amber Krishnan: K-HIVE Enabling Connectivity through Social Serendipity Human Factors International
Thai Le: Uncover Geology: An Interactive Learning Toolkit for Building Awareness About Your Watershed and the Impacts of Human Activities AOL
Lee Meredith: diamondsAndCode A Digital Dojo for DJs: Augmented turntable interface and visualization environment using AR Toolkit
Christopher Niemiec: Geneology tool
Joseph Saavedra: Modular II Neuroid: Wearable, Reconfigurable Personal Pollution Monitor Citizen Sensor 2010 COLOGNE DESIGN AWARD INTERNATIONAL, WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST SCHOLARSHIP
Ingrid Wu: Divine Beats – Night at the Monastery: Alternative Beat Map Representation in Music Rhythm Games
FALL 2009 Thesis Studio I PGTE 5300 D
Daniel Cashin: multimedia theatrical performance/video on veteran’s homecoming and reintegration
Jennifer Cotton: Ceramic/electronic sculpture
Bruce Drummond, Nicholas Hardeman: Social Sqncr: Interactive Audio-visual ecosystem manipulated with gestures and touch
Lee Meredith: Augmented turntable interface and visualization environment using AR Toolkit
Yun Yong Moon: Interactive motion graphics installation
Nicholas Perez-Gurri: Interactive motion graphics installation
Joseph Saavedra: Modular Neuroid: Wearable indoor air pollution sensor system for Peruvian villages Citizen Sensor 2010 COLOGNE DESIGN AWARD INTERNATIONAL, WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST SCHOLARSHIP
Stephen Varga: Multi-touch table for augmented interaction with baseball cards
Yun-Chin Wang: Interactive typography project
Ingrid Wu: Divine Beats – Night at the Monastery: Alternative Beat Map Representation in Music Rhythm Games
SPRING 2009 Thesis Studio II PGTE 5301 C
Katrina Bekessy: Ping: The Smart Bin 2009 NOKIA MINDTREK AWARD 2nd PLACE IN TAMPERE FINLAND R/GA
Matt Bethancourt: The Gesture-Controlled Exploration: A Study in Emotive Movement and Musical Creation
Cher Choi: JIJI: Watch Out!
Shipra Gupta: Water Crisis in Rafflesia: A Game based on the Subprime Crisis
Tzumei Maze: Hsiao Antimal: An Antisocial Toy Project
Ambreen Hussain: Spin on the Waltz: Wearable Garments as Instruments for Interactive Sound
Environments in the Viennese Waltz
Catherine Lewis: Deepfried Media: Remixing New Media Education
Alia Ormut Fleishman: KL L’Experience. Generative Audio/Visual Installation
Michael Thibodeau: Finger Pointer: A data visualization that shows how political constituents, special interest
groups, and institutions are targeted on the political blogosphere 2009 WINNER ADOBE DESIGN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BROWSER BASED WEB DESIGN
Dan Willig: The Twa Sisters: Electronic Story Quilt
Doris Yee: KEIKI: A Community Garden Project: Experimenting in Urban Gardening and Social Technologies
FALL 2008 Thesis Studio I PGTE 5300 D
Katrina Bekessy: Ping: The Smart Bin 2009 NOKIA MINDTREK AWARD 2nd PLACE IN TAMPERE FINLAND R/GA
Matt Bethancourt: The GS-1 Gestural Synthesizer
Erik Burke: Writer’s Bench
Shipra Gupta: Water Crisis in Rafflesia
Hsian Ju Hung: Doors Between Us
Lynn Maharas: Tread Erosion Martha Stewart Omnimedia
Claudio Midolo: Phototropic Memories Parsons SmallLab Quest to Learn Game School Project at Center for Transformative Media
Subalekha Udayasankar: Together
Dan Willig: American Folklore Revival
Sayoko Yoshida: War Requiem
SPRING 2008 Thesis Studio II PGTE 5301 C
Benjamin Chase: Modularity in Sustainable Product Design: The Modular PC
Michael Edwards: Baoband: Health Measures for Malawi Parsons
Tracy Gromek: Fiiwa: Freedom in Interactive Wearable Art 2008 COLOGNE INTERNATIONAL DESIGN PRIZE WINNER Parsons
Chris Hennelly: Explorations toward building an online DIY collaborative community: Collabrador Parsons
Becky Heritage: Free Gesture Parsons
Hee Jung: Sound Monsters
Jiyeon Kim: Action! Doll-tangible user interface designer toy game controller
Eric Nunez: Mobile Health Assistant: A Medical adherence tool for the developing world
Jason Rothman: Somnia A Deo Missaz, short movie
Chloe Varelidi: Oiko: sustainable energy game for children
Emilia Wiles: Climr. An interactive web site for inner city public high school youth that motivates then
towards college education and life changing opportunities
FALL 2007 Thesis Studio I PGTE 5300 D
Benjamin Chase: A Sustainable PC For Social Impact And Profit
Jonathan Cohrs: Eyebeam Futuresonic Art Award 2009
Michael Edwards: Baoband: Health Measures for Malawi Parsons
Shannon Emigh: I’m Not A Rock Star, But I Play One In My Thesis
Tracy Gromek: Sonus 2008 COLOGNE INTERNATIONAL DESIGN PRIZE WINNER Parsons
Chris Hennelly: Explorations toward building an online DIY collaborative community: Collabrador Parsons
Becky Heritage: Free Gesture Parsons
Hsiao-Ying Huang: Small Travel Guide
Kan Yang Li: Parsons
Chia-Ying: Lin Virtual Living Art Adobe Design Award Mobile Design Category Finalist
Eric Nunez: Mobile Health Assistant: A Medical adherence tool for the developing world
Jason Rothman: Immersive Multimedia Installation
SPRING 2007 Thesis Studio II PGTE 5301 C
Carla Galler: The C.M. Galler Shooting Galler(y) Experience
Victoria Gramova: Improving Health Care: An Online Training Course for Preventing and Caring for Pressure Ulcers
Jason Hare: DrumKIX: Footware for Rhythm Composition
Yuda Ho: M.A.S. I and City video installation
Daisuke Ishii: 8.4 Centimental Journey: A Sequence of three short films about smoking
Rafael Mejia: El Rompecabezas: An Interactive Puzzle Installation Brands & Things Complex Media
Kiera Ormut-Fleishman: Maintenant: Social Pedometer
Eddy Rodriguez Rosario: Step into the Glory: Triggering Video by Pose Pattern Recognition
Jenny Wu: Betty: An Interactive Exploration of Beautifying surgery and body image Barnes & Noble
Danielle Xuereb: Map: Locative Experience Mapping
FALL 2006 Thesis Studio I PGTE 5300 D
Lena Ghaleb: “Untitled” Computer Animation
Victoria Gromova: Improving Senior Care: An Online Training Course for Preventing and Treating Pressure Ulcers
Jason Hare: Footwear designed for making music
Yu-Da Ho: M.A.S. I and City
Daisuke Ishii: 8.4 Centimental Journey: A Sequence of three short films about smoking
Michael Low: FeelD: Interactive Table Installation
Rafael Mejia: Less Ordinary (working title) – Puzzle Installation Brands & Things Complex Media
Eddy Rodriquez Rosario: “Don’t just Wear the Number”: Controlling video by Pose Pattern Recognition Using CV Elements and Jitter
JiYoung Shim: “Untitled”
Hye Sun Suh: “Untitled”
Jenny Wu: “Untitled Mirror Project”: Exploration of extreme plastic surgery on women Barnes & Noble
SPRING 2006 Thesis Studio II PGTE 5301 C
Benjamin Bacon: Sound Spade: software and hardware tool for musicians to upload and search a self organized network repository of sound samples
Mary Behr: Move! An Interactive Metal Detection System and Responsive Sculpture
Stephanie Cheung: Oktopuff: An Interactive Stress Relief Toy
Hsin-Ming Cho: Four-Hand Composition: A Shared Interactive System
Hyojin Kim: Squeeze, Move, Make:
Mai Yi-Chun Lin: Yours, Mine and Ours Affinity Circles
Gabriela Lopez: Calle Morales #87: The inner dialogue
Eun K. Shin: Lamentation: A video corridor through a trauma survivor’s heart and mind
Joe Nattapol Suphawong: AHH… An Interactive Audiovisual Installation & Performance Parsons Valedictorian 2006
FALL 2005 Thesis Studio I PGTE 5300 D
Benjamin Bacon: A Network Aware Integrated Music Workstation
With A Self Organizing Sample and Loop Database Parsons the New School for Design
Mary Behr: Move! An Interactive Metal Detection System and Responsive Sculpture
Hsin-Ming Cho: Hand Shadows | A hand recognition system and interaction
Hyojin Kim: Berichino.com What color? What color!: A Tactile,Visual Exploratory Interface for Young Children
Ernesto Klar: Convergenza #1: Sound and Light Environment
Gabriela Lopez: Wild Child: Feral Children and Isolation
Joe Nattapol Suphawong: AHH… An Interactive Audiovisual Installation & Performance Parsons Valedictorian 2006
Margarida Teodoro Garcia: Sleep’s Bright Land: A composition for an audiovisual system
SPRING 2005 Thesis Studio I PGTE 5301
Kaho Abe Eyebeam
Megan Ellis
Carlos Giffoni MTV Networks Entertainment Group
Fura Johannesdottir R/GA
Dong Kyun Kim
Minah Kim
Catalin Lazia
Amelia Marzec Gender Anarchy Project
Turi McKinley FrogDesign
Jacqueline Steck R/GA
Charles Truett Linkedin
Maria Villamil
SPRING 2005 Advanced Physical Computing
Charles Beck
Vincent Boyce
Matthew Brant
Donald Bugden
Szeki Chan
Hong-San Chen
Lauren Davino
Brett Jackson
Lin Yi-Chun
Yeonju Shim
Joe Nattapol Suphawong Parsons Valedictorian 2006
Margarida Teodoro Garcia
Physical Computing, Advanced Physical Computing and Physical Computing Major Studio classes taught at Parsons:
FALL 2004 Physical Computing PGTE 5085 A
Tina Aufiero
Charles Beck
Vincent Boyce
Ya-Yun Cheng
Ivy Feraco
Elisabeth Fraller
Angela Gomez
Brett Jackson
Fura Johannesdottir R/GA
Samantha Kim
Eddie Martinez AIGA AWARD, GOLDEN WEB AWARD
Yeonju Shim
Jung Sin Jungysin.com Gerson Lehrman Group
Charles Truett Linkedin
Maria Villamil
FALL 2004 Physical Computing PGTE 5085 B
Vivienne Auyeung
Mary Behr
Matthew Brant
Szeki Chan
Hsin-Ming Cho
Lina Fenequito
Joshua Fisher
Jenny Han
Dongyun Kim
Mai Yi-Chun Lin Affinity Circles
Chris Sugrue
Joe Nattapol Suphawong Parsons Valedictorian 2006
Teodoro Garcia
Reiko Tsunoda
SPRING 2004 Advanced Physical Computing PGTE 5086 A
Minah Kim
Joshua Kinberg PBS
Alison Lewis Fast Company One of the Most Influential Women in Technology 2010
Angie Sanders
Hyunsuk “Harold” Shin NY1.com
SPRING 2004 Physical Computing Major Studio PGTE 5201 K
Kaho Abe Eyebeam
Nurit Bar Shai
Lauren Davino
Dong Kyun Kim
Minah Kim
Bao-Khang Luu
Turi McKinley FrogDesign
FALL 2003 Physical Computing PGTE 5085 A
Stephen Baker Red Antenna Addisko
Kirsten Braddock Braddockdesign.com
Donald Bugden
Pinar Ceyhan
Carlos Giffoni MTV Networks Entertainment Group
Clay Johnson Cars.com
Joshua Kinberg PBS
Catalin Lazia
Ivonne Loyola
Turi McKinley FrogDesign
Jacqueline Steck R/GA
Federico Urdaneta FUMV SHIFT
Virasinghe Prithvikumar
Theodore Watson OpenFrameWorks Eyebeam ARS ELECTRONICA GOLDEN NICA AWARD FUTURE EVERYTHING LEVER PRIZE 2010
SPRING 2003 Physical Computing Major Studio 2 PGTE 5201 K
Tina Aufiero
Gary Brandau Gensler Architects
Jason Lee
Alison Lewis Fast Company One of the Most Influential Women in Technology 2010
Robert Ransick
Rees Shad
Ritsu Yoneyama
SPRING 2003 Advanced Physical Computing PGTE 5086A
Andrew Baron Rocketboom
Elaine Castillo
Yu-Jin Jung
Laura Ramirez Ogilvy
Jon Rosenberg
Naomi Yamamoto
FALL 2002 Physical Computing PGTE 5085 A
Michael Bernstein
Anjali Bhojani
Elaine Castillo
Shruti Chandra
Teng-An Chang
Dawn Giwelb
Alison Lewis Fast Company One of the Most Influential Women in Technology 2010
Wei-Yio Lin
Kati Meyer-Bruhl Bruehl.com INTERIOR INNOVATION AWARD 2011, GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2010
Lauren Miller Sephora
Yong Rhuem Soon
Naomi Yamamoto
FALL 2002 Collaboration Studio: Digital Musical Instruments
SUMMER 2002 Integrated Major Studio PGTE 5202 A
Andrew Baron Rocketboom
Ross Bochnek
Nicole Johnson
Joon-Yong Jung
Yu-Jin Jung
Nesrin Karanouh
Benjamin Lukens LIM
Cassandra Marshall
Kati Meyer-Bruhl Bruehl.com INTERIOR INNOVATION AWARD 2011, GOOD DESIGN AWARD 2010
Graham Storey
Sara Vetteth The Design Cell
SPRING 2002 Advanced Physical Computing PGTE 5086 A
Sangmin Bae KAIST ID+IM Design Laboratory, IDEA AWARD, IF AWARD, GOOD DESIGN AWARD, RED DOT AWARD
Bettina Bruder
Tien-Chieh Chang
Sonia Gutierrez
James Huang Eisenman Associates
Kunal Jain
Hyung Nyun Kim
Chandler McWilliams
Jacqueline Myint Six Star Studio Mediastorm
Christine Park Schematic NYC
Chotima “Pum” Photjananuwat Renfro Design Group
Marcy Rye Wiremedia
Jung Hee Sohn
Hiroko Tanahashi Posttheater
Naomi Yamamoto
SPRING 2002 Physical Computing Major Studio PGTE 5201 E
Suzanne Cort
Dawn Giwelb
Catherine Herdlick
Jung-Wei Hsieh
Amy Hung
Seho Kim Korea Society Parsons Commencement Speaker 2003
Alina Podkolinska Alinapodkolinska.com Pulse Energy
Hyunsuk “Harold” Shin NY1.com
Michael Silverberg
Racha Tarazi rachatarazi.com
FALL 2001 Physical Computing PGTE 5085 A
Devjit Basu BNY Mellon
Bettina Bruder Adidas
Dawn Giwelb
Wan-Chen Hsieh
James Huang Eisenman Associates
Hyung Nyun Kim
Chien-Hung “Marc” Lin
Jacqueline Myint Six Star Studio Mediastorm
Christine Park Schematic NYC
Chotima “Pum” Photjananuwat Renfro Design Group
Juan Sanabria
Hyunsuk “Harold” Shin
Jung Hee Sohn
Claudia Sondakh
Hiroko Tanahashi Posttheater
Virapat Tejapaibul
