Tisch Special Programs

Photo courtesy of Adem Ayten, student at the University of Istanbul

22 students from our Topics in Turkish Culture class recently returned from a 2 week study trip to Istanbul and Izmir. Pictured here is Will Haraldson, a student in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, during an outing in Istanbul.

More photos from their trip to come.

This fall, Tisch Special Programs offers Topics in Brazilian Culture, giving N.Y.U. students the opportunity to travel to Rio De Janeiro and Salvador.

Photo courtesy of Adem Ayten, student at the University of Istanbul

Click here for more great photos from our Topics in Turkish Culture class trip to Istanbul and Izmir.

According to the The New York Times today, "Computer animation, once one of the most isolated corners of Hollywood, is rapidly becoming one of the most crowded."

This style of filmmaking and storyelling often influences video games. New York University Tisch School of the Arts has got animation and video games covered.

Animation by John Canemaker.

NYU and visiting students can register for the 3-D Computer Animation Workshop or the Game Design Workshop offered this summer.

In the fall NYU students can take Introduction to Game Design and Introduction to Video Games through the Open Arts curriculum.

Graduate study in animation and digital arts is also available at Tisch School of the Arts Asia.

Want more ways to tell a story? Visit Tisch Special Programs.

Professional dancer and choreographer Aly Rose has been featured in iChina Magazine.

In the article, Aly discusses what it was like to move to China and study dance there, her experience performing on a Beijing Television competition, and the political and cultural differences between art in China and in America.

Aly teaches in the Tisch Open Arts Curriculum.

Click here for the entire article.

The professional actor and director of the Open Arts Acting Studio discusses what she likes most about New York City, what it was like growing up in the West Village, and riding on the back of Steve McQueen's motorcycle.

View the video here.

Watch Angela tonight, Monday, June 8 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT in the series premiere of "Nurse Jackie" on Showtime.

Gregory Needham is back from his semester in London with New York University Tisch School of the Arts. Tisch Special Programs caught up with Gregory about his training at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC):

Training with the BBC as a college student is truly a rare experience. What did you take away from it?

I can honestly say on my résumé that I have been trained by the BBC. How cool is that? It truly was a unique opportunity that I feel very privileged for. The training programs were outstanding and when it came to the placement. I fulfilled a dream of working on the children’s programs I watched as a child. My placement was outstanding. Everyone was very friendly and encouraging. I made some dear friends with the team I worked with. They gave me so many opportunities that I never believed could happen in a hectic production environment. I was able to pitch sketch ideas, invited to staff meetings and had a personal tour of the puppets on one of the shows. They were more than willing to fulfill my needs, as I was theirs. I got to spend time discussing different jobs on the productions with professionals.

Adding to the seemingly limitless list of attractions New York City has to offer, the renovated High Line recently opened to the public on Manhattan's west side. The rail road line was originally built in the 1930s for dangerous freight trains to be elevated from the city's busy streets. The line has been closed to train traffic since 1980 and gradually fell into disrepair. Now, public and private organizations have pooled their efforts in order to rebuild and redesign the historic structure and the result is a unique and beautiful new city park rising above Manhattan's Meatpacking District.

Check out The High Line's website for more info.

Pooneh Maghazehe, Hell's Puerto Rico Performance Still, Digital C-print 2008 copyright artist and courtesy Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery and Chelsea Art Museum

Opening June 26, 2009 and showing until September 5, 2009, the Chelsea Art Museum will host Open Arts instructor Sam Bardaouil's exhibition titled Iran Inside Out. From the museum's website:

The groundbreaking exhibition features 35 artists living and working in Iran alongside 20 others living in the Diaspora. The result is a multifarious portrait of 55 contemporary Iranian artists challenging the conventional perceptions of Iran and Iranian art.

Detailed info about the exhibition can be found here.

Sam Bardaouil teaches Middle Eastern Art & Culture this fall in the Open Arts Curriculum.

Shawn Rocco

Where some see limitations, others find opportunities. Shawn Rocco, a staff photographer for The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., maintains a blog, Cellular Obscura, chronicling moments captured with his cell phone's camera. The result of compromising technical capabilities, according to The New York Times Lens blog, is "the happy prize of serendipity."

And it's not just a therapeutic hobby for the professional photographer--his cell phone pictures have been featured in festivals and now The New York Times, lending credibility to the notion that it's not the quality of the camera that counts, but the artist behind it.

New York University students interested in exploring cell phone art can take Cell Phone Cinema this fall through the Tisch Open Arts Curriculum.

Shirin Aliabdai and Farhad Moshiri, "We Are All American Operation Supermarket Series," 2006. Photo: Shirin Aliabdai and Farhad Moshiri

Positive reviews of Open Arts instructor Sam Bardaouil's show "Iran Inside Out" at the Chelsea Art Museum have been pouring in from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Artinfo.com.

The show opened June 26 and coincides with major political and social events taking place in Iran, prompting The Times to point out that "life has intersected with art in ways it rarely does in the white-cube world of Chelsea."

Sam Bardaouil co-curated the show and intended to bring new perspective to what he feels is an often-stereotyped artistic culture. "People who think Iranian art is all veils and calligraphy are missing out on some really fresh work," he told The Wall Street Journal.

Artinfo.com writes that "'Iran Inside Out'" is a must-see, broad-ranging and consistently provocative in both medium and subject matter."

Sam Bardaouil teaches Middle Eastern Art & Culture this fall in the Open Arts Curriculum.