Each Year, NYC Media Lab holds its Annual Summit including 12 workshops led by faculty from Columbia Journalism, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, Parsons the New School for Design and more. In addition to a presentation from this year’s keynote speaker; Ted Bailey, CEO, Funder and Chairman at Dataminr; NYC Media will present its first ever round of demos to be displayed at the summit’s “science fair” on September 25 at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
Featuring 100 displays of prototype technologies, applications and research projects, the 2015 Annual Summit will include hands-on demonstrations from participating demos including:
*All in Pieces:” an immersive projection installation that explores the experience of information fragmentation by transforming real-time Tweets into sound frequencies (Parsons MFADT)”
*MASK: “a collection of multi-user virtual reality masks that explore ways to shift identity (NYU ITP)”
*ProjectedU:” an interactive messaging platform utilizing the existing projection systems inside university classrooms to engage students before class begins (University of Delaware)”
*Purple Politics: “a media organization that makes it easy for millennials to be informed about politics and international affairs (CUNY Graduate School of Journalism)”
*QuantFlaunt: “records and analyzes user-submitted metrics, moods, and ideologies, and provides one representative “bottom-line” number (Pratt Institute)”
*Revealuxion: “an artistic, interactive garment for performance, using brainwaves, LEDs, and body movements (Parsons MFADT)”
*Word.Camera: “instant text camera & automated talking surveillance camera, leveraging AI algorithms & data resources to convert images to expressive text (NYU ITP)”
A full list of demo participants is available here
This event also provides an opportunity for students, faculty and researchers to compete for $25,000 in grants and prizes for university research on data and social good. Those individuals currently collaborating with a nonprofit/NGO on data analysis for a civic cause will be able to present their research at Bloomberg’s Data for Good Exchange (D4GX) conference in NYC on September 28, 2015. NYC Media Lab’s collaboration with D4GX also provides a grant and prize program allowing those who apply by August 1st to receive research awards from $1000 to $7500.
For more information on the data and social good research competition, contact NYC Media Lab Seed Project Manager, Any Chen at amy.chen@nycmedialab.com.
To register for NYC Media Lab’s 2015 Annual Summit, visit here
