The 65-storey Sinar Mas Plaza on Shanghai’s North Bund usually plays ads across its 320-meter facade. But since December 11, it's been lit up by geometric designs, tessellations, and Chinese art -- all designed by students in Associate Art Professor Stavros Didakis’s Media Architecture course.
In June, senior Xinyi (Skye) Gao ’21 asked two of her friends if they’d be interested in collaborating on a Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund (DURF) project over the summer. She wanted to use art and media to explore the subject of death and digital bereavement—from the technology of how death is announced to what happens to all of our personal data when we die.
Four selected Interactive Media Arts (IMA) student projects—from an interactive digital fountain to a color-changing constellation—were displayed at the Shanghai MixC Mall in Minhang district as special part of the “INFINITE: Dimensions in Digital Age and Beyond” exhibition on Saturday.
On May 13, five NYU Shanghai students and an alumnus shared their cross-disciplinary perspectives on innovation, social responsibility, and self-development at the first Zaojiu Youth Talk on campus, an innovative idea-sharing platform that organizes regular TED-style talks.