[Sigia-l] 15 May NYC CHI: The State of IA in NYC --FREE--

[Scott Weiss]

NYC CHI's NEXT MEETING: 15 May, 6-8PM
          The State of IA in NYC
Date and Time: Wednesday, May 15, 6-8pm (program starts at 6:30 sharp)
Location: TechSpace, 41 East 11th Street between University Place and
Broadway
-FREE- 
RSVP Required: nycchi at usableproducts.com

Topic: 
The profession, the trends, and other opportunities for those in the
User Experience community. 
A panel discussion about the future of our discipline. 

Speakers:
Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, The Whitney Museum
Hazen Reed, Director of Interaction Design, R/GA
Rich Shupe, Principal, FMA Online & instructor, SVA (BFA & MFA)
Iromie Weeramantry, Team Lead, Information Architecture Director, User
Experience Strategy ibm.com Site Strategy and  Standards, IBM

Bios:
Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum
Curator of New Media Arts
Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney
Museum of American Art and the director of Intelligent  Agent, a service
organization and information resource dedicated to digital art. She has
written extensively on new media arts and  is currently working with
Victoria Vesna and Margot Lovejoy on a book about context and meaning in
digital art (to be published by  MIT Press) and on a book called
"Digital Art" (part of the World of Art Series published by Thames &
Hudson, UK). She teaches in  the MFA computer graphics department at the
School of Visual Arts in New York and has lectured internationally on
art and  technology. Her first show at the Whitney, "Data Dynamics"
(March - June 2001), dealt with the mapping of data and information
flow on the Internet and in the museum space. She also curated the net
art selection for the exhibition "Evo1" (Gallery L, Moscow,  October
2001); for Fotofest (Houston, Texas, March, 2002); and the 2002 Whitney
Biennial (March, 2002). She is responsible for  Artport, the Whitney's
online portal to Internet art (http://artport.whitney.org).   

Hazen Reed, R/GA
Director of Interaction Design
Hazen directs the day-to-day efforts of the Interaction Design
department at R/GA. Hazen is a past VP, Interactive Director of  Bitflip
Interactive Group, and VP of Interactive Design of Tumble Interactive
Media where he produced award-winning interactive  campaigns on CD-ROM
and the Web for Novartis, IBM, ABC Television, SmartMoney.com,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Buena Vista  Films, Hearst publications Workman
Publishing, and many others. Hazen teaches classes in interaction design
and animation design  at the New School for Social Research. He has
exhibited his interactive sculptures and installations in museums and
events from  New York to Australia, including SIGGRAPH '92 and '93 and
SIGCHI '93. Hazen has an M.A. in the philosophy of communication from
the Media Studies Program at the New School University. He did his
undergraduate work at the University Professor's Program of  Boston
University in Psychology and Parapsychology, with a minor in the History
of Photography.

Other bios pending; see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nycchi for
details!

Many thanks to TechSpace for hosting this event.
NYC CHI Officers:
 Scott Weiss - Chair 
 Maria Moratis - Vice Chair 
 Don Bialer - Program Chair 
 Fleur Levitz - Information Chair 
 Shan Chun - Secretary 

Please check our website for more information and mailing list signups: 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nycchi

RSVP Required: nycchi at usableproducts.com