Research Projects

  • Betaville

    Betaville is an open-source multiplayer environment for real cities, in which ideas for new works of public art, architecture, urban design, and development can be shared, discussed, tweaked, and brought to maturity in context, and with the kind of broad participation people take for granted in open source software development... The Betaville platform is designed to be deployable by individuals, small groups (say, a project class or a neighborhood association), all the way up to professional... Read more »

  • Syn-Syn

    A joint research initiative between BxmC (lead: Carl Skelton) and the Music Technology program at NYU Steinhardt (lead: Robert Rowe). A pair of interactive multimedia installations in our respective facilities will be set up so users can freely configure an audio-visual environment to their own preference. the only requirement is that they "tag" what they are doing according to their own sense of the emotive qualities of the pure forms of color, shape, movement, and sound that they... Read more »

  • Xenakis Past, Present, and Future

    Welcome to the first public event in which the newly founded Xenakis Project of the Americas (XPA) is involved. It is an honor and a pleasure to share the exciting activities of the next three days, featuring Iannis Xenakis: Past, Present, Future, with the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center of NYU Polytechnic (BXMC).  Xenakis’ legacy in the Americas is both profound and far-reaching. During the initial process of organizing both the first museum exhibition of Xenakis’ papers in... Read more »

  • Brooklyn Experimental Media GARAGE

    BxmC is building a new art and technology development/presentation environment, the Brooklyn Experimental Media Garage. The Media Garage will operate as the most "extroverted" component of the planned NYU-Poly Center for Innovation in Technology and Entertainment, and expand the scope of what NYU-Poly and its collaborating partners can do in the local and global mix. The powerful interaction of research institutions and industry in a Garage modeled after the aerospace industry’s... Read more »

  • Brooklyn Experimental Media ENSEMBLE

    The BxmE (Brooklyn experimental media Ensemble) creates new multimedia works; faculty and students at BxmC participate on a regular basis. The ensemble specializes in real-time audiovisual performance, using purpose-built technologies and new combinations of existing ones.   Read more »

  • Ultratope 1: Real City

    A public projector installation for the Manhattan Bridge Colonnade by BxmC Director Carl Skelton February 17 to March 31, 2011 Talk and reception Thursday March 3rd, 2011 6:30 pm The Museum at Eldridge Street Originally designed as a grand entrance and toll gate for the bridge, the Manhattan bridge colonnade now stands in excellent physical condition, but a bit apart from its current and historical context in the surrounding communities of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Ultratope 1: Real... Read more »