Teaching
I am a University Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). I teach graduate seminars for the Ph.D. Program in Computer Science and the MS Program in Data Science.
Between 1996 and 2012, I was a Professor of Digital Art in The Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). I was also a visiting faculty at California Institute of the Arts, The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Amsterdam, Stockholm University, University of Art and Design in Helsinki, Hong Kong Art Center, University of Siegen (Germany), Gothenburg School of Art (Sweden), Goldsmiths College at the University of London, De Montfort University in Leicester (UK), the University of New South Wales in Sydney, New York University, Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design (Moscow), European Graduate School (EGG), University of Tyumen (Russia), The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA, Beijing), and Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow).
Classes, 2013-present
Data Visualization
Spring 2024
Data Visualization
Fall 2023
Digital Tools for Culture Research
Fall 2022
Data Visualization
Fall 2021
How to Predict Future Culture
Fall 2021
Data Visualization
Spring 2021
Design and Data Visualization
Fall 2020
How to Predict Future Culture
Fall 2020
Data Visualization and Artificial Intelligence @University of Tyumen, Russia
Spring 2020
Media Theory and History
Spring 2020
AI, Data Visualization, Data Art @CAFA, China
Fall 2018
Data Visualization
Fall 2018
AI, culture, media @EGS
Fall 2018
Data Visualization Methods
Spring 2018
Pattern Recognition @ Strelka Institute
Spring 2018
Studying culture and media in the age of big data @ NYU
Spring 2018
Data Visualization
Spring 2017
Data Visualization Methods
Spring 2016
Social and Cultural Computing
Fall 2015
Analyzing Cultural Data
Spring 2015
Social and Cultural Computing
Fall 2014
Software, Globalization & Political Action
Co-taught with Dr. Susan Buck-Morss
Spring 2014
Social and Cultural Computing
Fall 2013
Big Data, Visualization, and Digital Humanities
Spring 2013
Selected Classes, 2011-2012 (UCSD)
Data Visualization and Computational Art History
Spring 2012
Information Visualization and Digital Image Processing for Artists
Fall 2011
PhD Seminar: Digital Humanities++
Spring 2011
My Former Post-Doctoral Scholar:
Dr. Jeremy Douglass
Assistant Professor, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
My Former PhD Students:
Dr. William Huber
Lecturer in Computer Arts, Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Dr. Eduardo Navas
Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate and Undergraduate New Media Program School of Visual Arts, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Matthew Fuller (external advisor)
Professor and Director of Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK
My Former MFA Students:
Chris Csikszentmihlyi, Mark Duggette, Jesse Harding, Mathew Kabatoff, Jonathan Phillips, Daniel Rehn, Artie Vierkant