nyu-itp-research-resident
About
This is a residency by Aarón Montoya-Moraga.
This residency was at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program between September 2017 and May 2018.
Residency
Teaching
This is a list of teaching assignments I took during residency.
- Office hours with graduate students to help on their classes, focusing on introduction to programming in p5.js, Processing, HTML, JS, HTML, Python, Max.
- Help teaching audio theory and practice for Marina Zurkow's Communication Lab: Video and Sound class.
- Help sessions for students in the New Interfaces for Musical Expression class by Greg Shakar
- Resident with fellow Yuli Cai for Kat Sullivan's thesis class, of 19 students, check out their thesis videos:
- Teacher of Live Coding and Midi 101 workshop at Brooklyn Research, April 21st 2018.
- Teacher of Live Coding workshop at NYU Tisch, April 22nd 2018.
- Guest lecturer at Coded Escuela's Introducción a la programación creativa con p5.js, March 12th 2018.
- Guest critique for Sinestesia's Espacios y Objetos Interactivos final class, taught by NYU ITP 2016 Sergio Mora-Diaz, March 17th 2018.
- Lecturer of Introducción a la programación y live coding con ChucK, at the XV Festival Internacional de Música Electroacústica de Chile, Ai-Maako 2017, October 11th 2017.
- Lecturer of [Introducción al sensor de movimiento Kinect con software Kinectron] at the Graduate program of Arts, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, October 13th 2017.
Projects
This is a list of projects I worked on during my residency.
- art-notes: collection of notes related to arts.
- avatar: remote performance art piece, collaboration with Yuli Cai and Donald C. Shorter Jr., funded with a grant from NYU Tisch.
- bandurria: launch of own record label.
- cada-bit: multimedia art projects about exhausting all the possibilites in audio and image.
- CODED Escuela: co-founding of media arts school in Spanish with NYU ITP 2016 Natalia Cabrera and NYU ITP 2020 Guillermo Montecinos
- Domestik: software design and development and design with NYU ITP 2020 Guillermo Montecinos, for performance piece by María José Contreras
- Encuentro de artes mediales: first meetup of Chilean media artists, organized by CODED Escuela, hosted by Sinestesia, attendance of more than 40 people from all ages and backgrounds, March 10th 2018.
- Frequency Sweep: creation and curation of experimental audiovisual performances festival, with NYU ITP 2018 Dominic Barrett.
- Introducción a p5.js: release of the Introduction to p5.js book in Spanish, in print and pay-what you want PDF.
- Kinectron: development of Kinectron website and tutorial material.
- La Conquista: software design and development with NYU ITP 2020 Guillermo Montecinos, for theater piece by María José Contreras
- manuelscorza: my favorite author, books are out of print, I am transcribing them and uploading them
- maquinitas: software library for MIDI control of hardware instruments, intersection between computer music, hardware-based electronic music, and generative music
- material-world: database of material possessions
- New Latin Wave Input/Output: curation of new media arts exhibit for the New Latin Wave festival, 2017 version
- p5.js website in Spanish: release of the p5.js website in Spanish
- protest.py: Python module for generative protesting material.
- transparency: digital database for self-portraiture.
Tutorials
This is a list of tutorials I started writing during my residency.
- tutorial-json: tutorial about how to read and write JSON files.
- tutorial-kinectron: tutorial for Kinectron usage.
- tutorial-power-supplies: tutorial about power supplies for media arts projects.
- tutorial-python-module: tutorial for writing your own Python modules.
- tutorial-servo-camera: for controlling with Python a servo connected to a camera, for Sam Lavigne's Automating Video class.
Talks
- Encuentro Abierto III | Escuela CAPA, talk with [CODED Escuela] members about our work on media arts education, July 14th 2018.
- Software for Artists Day #4: talk about my digital experiments in sound, portraiture and activistm, at Pioneer Works, July 7th 2018.
- WordHack: talk at BabyCastles about p5.js in Spanish, and own artwork, May 17th 2018.
- Coding Train / Processing Foundation: press release of p5.js new internationaliation educational material in Spanish, including p5.js website and book, with NYU ITP 2020 Guillermo Montecinos, April 13th 2018.
- Processing Community Day 2017: talk about p5.js in Spanish, with Guillermo Montecinos, NYU ITP 2020, October 21st 2017.
Awards
- Prix Ars Electronica 2018 - Digital Communities, Honorary mention for p5.js
Rejections
- Application to PhD at MIT Media Lab
- Application to micro-residency at CultureHub.
Shout-outs
This residency could not have been such an amazing experience without the support from:
- Everyone at the NYU ITP classes 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 that I had the pleasure to know <3 !
- The NYU ITP Research Residents 2017/2018:
- NYU ITP faculty and staff, especially:
- Allison Parrish
- Andrew Lazarow
- Dan O'Sullivan
- Daniel Shiffman
- Gabe Barcia-Colombo
- Gene Kogan
- Jason Sigal
- Justin Peake
- Kat Sullivan
- Kyle Greenberg
- Lauren McCarthy
- Luisa Pereira
- Marina Zurkow
- Marlon Evans
- Midori Yasuda
- Matt Romein
- Mimi Yin
- Nancy Hechinger
- Rebecca Lieberman
- Rune Madsen
- Sam Lavigne
- Sharon Lee de la Cruz
- Shawn van Every
- Taeyoon Choi
- TK Broderick
- Todd Bryant
- Tom Igoe
- Yotam Mann
- CODED Escuela:
- The Processing Foundation:
- Everyone I forgot to mention, who was amazing to share with, thanks!