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IMA is focused on exploring the expressive possibilities brought about by emerging forms of technology, media, and communication.

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POV: Your final class project is creating a lasting place to hang out on campus. 🪑💜

From curved benches and conversation hammocks to playful gathering spaces, students in Industrial Design in Action, taught by Assistant Arts Professor Andy Garcia, transformed NYU Shanghai’s rooftop garden into a space designed for community connections.

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Join us Wednesday, June 17 for two opening receptions!

💻 Plugged In: Diverse Minds Powering Unlimited Futures features Student work from Tech Unlimited's Career Ladder programs, including projects in game design, animation, data visualization, digital design and more.
📍 370 Jay St, Brooklyn, 3rd Floor Gallery · 6–7:30 pm · RSVP required → link in bio!

🎨 In Good Company: A Celebration of Disability Arts Featuring Tech Unlimited students, DigiCrip Art Residency (@nyushanghai, @interactivemediaarts ) & Elizabeth Williams (@heartshare )

📍 370 Jay St, Brooklyn, Clive Davis Gallery, street level · 5–7 pm · Free & open to the public ,On view through July 13, 2026

🗓️ Pro tip: Arrive at 5 for In Good Company, then head upstairs at 6 for Plugged In — the perfect double feature!

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Designers
Adeliya Aitpayeva
Melissa Ching
Emma DeLeon
Jingran Zhang
Kangkang Jiang
Fatima Kazim
Xinbei Li
Ada Lian
Mia Lin
Evan Pan
Siri Shetty
Yunxi (Aimée)Tang
Junqi (Rebecca) Xiong
Henry Frazier
Taif Alnuaimi

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POV: NYU Shanghai’s trees are telling your their life story🌳

🎙️After four semesters of faculty-student collaboration, 11 courtyard plant species can now “speak” through the Trees Talk project.

From research and storytelling to audio recordings and sign design, this community effort brings campus nature to life in a whole new way.

Next time you’re on campus, scan a sign and listen. 🍃🎧

#NYUShanghai #TreeTalks

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🎓 NYU Shanghai graduate Mathew Ponon ’26 spent his college years developing AI-powered communication tools designed to support people with hearing and speech impairments.

Driven by his belief that innovation should serve others, Mathew’s journey shows how technology can be used to create meaningful change in people’s lives.

As he begins his next chapter, he hopes to continue building solutions that make communication more accessible for all.

Featuring: @mathewobsequioponon and @interactivemediaarts

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女娲有体，孰制匠之? - How was Nüwa’s body made?

A hand-drawn animated film exploring the act of invention and reimagine femininity within heterogeneous time.

A project that accompanied me for an entire year ;)

I’ve received so much support and love from IMA community, and have felt that my thoughts was seen, respected, and appreciated.

And finally, special thanks to my grandpa for creating the calligraphy for “Nüwa”, it is the perfect ending to the animation.

So much love💗

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how do I begin to describe how much ima has given me over the past two years? Ive felt so lucky to work amongst the most kind, caring, diligent, and intelligent colleagues, and to educate the most sensitive, curious, genuine, and inspiring students. I cried a lot over the past weeks, because I feel like the world is alright where this community exists. our students are going into the world, and they’re going to be ok, because they’re so so good.

It’s hard to say goodbye. It’s so rare to be able to educate in a way that I believe in. To teach things I wish to have learned in school, and to be a teacher I wish that I had. and to teach alongside amazing people who are really passionate and serious about liberal arts education (and are holding onto the “arts” in the “interactive media”). thank you @interactivemediaarts for taking a chance on me when I was still a young adjunct. my colleagues at ima, the ai&culture center, and everyone I’ve met through @nyushanghai — thank you 🥺 i hope our paths will cross again, and soon

congrats class of 2026, I feel like I’ve graduated with you too.

pictured, in reverse chronological order
- 2026 graduation
- ima retreat && strudel cake my colleagues got me (rudi got a robot cake)
- livecoding && NIME collab final show
- two different cohorts of livecoding class
- interaction lab
- cclab (field trip)
- fall 24 ima show
- fall 24 ima orientation
- my first day at work

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The end of an era. NYU and IMA gave me so much for this past twelve years that I hardly have words to express. It’s always bittersweet to send off our students, with a mix of knowing we will miss them, and that they are ready. As you may know, this graduation ceremony was a bit special. I even enjoyed an Argentinian tango, which felt like a dedicated farewell to me.

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IMA Capstone Show S26 (4/4)

The Interactive Media Arts (IMA) Capstone is a two-semester course that enables students to develop an independent research project within the area of interactive media arts. Drawing on influences ranging from media theory to contemporary art practices, each project becomes a comprehensive work that advances conceptual inquiry through technical making. Across a wide range of personal, cultural, political, and speculative questions, these projects develop new techniques, experiences, and interfaces within the field of emerging media, utilizing diverse toolkits such as creative coding, web development, AR/VR systems, communication technologies, digital fabrication, interactive installations, physical computing, 2D/3D design, and game engines.

Projects on photos:
(1) Tu Quynh Kim Vuu - EVERYONE ELSE IS REAL
(2) Ninj Tumurkhuyag - The Studio
(3) Meilin (Maelyn) Lu - Counseling Room
(4) Mingwei Li - Memoir of a Snail in Green Water
(5) Rui (Rachel) Zeng - Déjà vu
(6) Henry Thomas Frazier - Building and Sharing

@interactivemediaarts @nyushanghai

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IMA Capstone Show S26 (3/4)

The Interactive Media Arts (IMA) Capstone is a two-semester course that enables students to develop an independent research project within the area of interactive media arts. Drawing on influences ranging from media theory to contemporary art practices, each project becomes a comprehensive work that advances conceptual inquiry through technical making. Across a wide range of personal, cultural, political, and speculative questions, these projects develop new techniques, experiences, and interfaces within the field of emerging media, utilizing diverse toolkits such as creative coding, web development, AR/VR systems, communication technologies, digital fabrication, interactive installations, physical computing, 2D/3D design, and game engines.

Projects on photos:
(1) Yuting (Tina) Song - Shifting Ground
(2) Deyi (Denny) Wang - A Long Way South
(3) Anonymized - The Deity-Observer: Rethinking the Empire-Building Genre
(4) Junqi (Rebecca) Xiong - Found in Translation
(5) Stephanie Yip - TOOBAO - The (Unofficial) World's Best E-Commerce Selling Platform
(6) Ting Yang - 普得爱 PREDATE
(7) Eva B. Weisenfeld - The Grains of Gaman

@interactivemediaarts @nyushanghai

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IMA Capstone Show S26 (2/4)

The Interactive Media Arts (IMA) Capstone is a two-semester course that enables students to develop an independent research project within the area of interactive media arts. Drawing on influences ranging from media theory to contemporary art practices, each project becomes a comprehensive work that advances conceptual inquiry through technical making. Across a wide range of personal, cultural, political, and speculative questions, these projects develop new techniques, experiences, and interfaces within the field of emerging media, utilizing diverse toolkits such as creative coding, web development, AR/VR systems, communication technologies, digital fabrication, interactive installations, physical computing, 2D/3D design, and game engines.

Projects on photos:
(1) Yingfan Chen - Cloud, Crowd
(2) Shiyu (Maggie) Wang - Sýmpnoia
(3) Yayuan (Claire) Yang - Cocooning
(4) Dana Zinchenko - The Choreographic Duet
(5) Shanze Fatima Javed - Felt Sense
(6) Zijin (Lisa) Huang Felt, TBC
(7) Yuan (Melanie) Quan - (Nü) Wa
(8) Qiran (Shelia) Xie - 女娲有体，孰制匠之?

@interactivemediaarts @nyushanghai

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IMA Capstone Show S26 (1/4)

The Interactive Media Arts (IMA) Capstone is a two-semester course that enables students to develop an independent research project within the area of interactive media arts. Drawing on influences ranging from media theory to contemporary art practices, each project becomes a comprehensive work that advances conceptual inquiry through technical making. Across a wide range of personal, cultural, political, and speculative questions, these projects develop new techniques, experiences, and interfaces within the field of emerging media, utilizing diverse toolkits such as creative coding, web development, AR/VR systems, communication technologies, digital fabrication, interactive installations, physical computing, 2D/3D design, and game engines.

Projects on photos:
(1) ShuYan (Shu) Lin - 404: Body Not Found
(2) Qianying (Yelena) Ye - g(AI)a
(3) Shuya (Chanel) Feng - The PAA Archive
(4) Lucas Lin - Aí, was the poem creative?
(5) Emma DeLeon - Help Wanted: HUMANS ONLY
(6) Sophia Wan Zhiyan - Treenie
(7) Ruiqi Liu - Unresolved 无解

@interactivemediaarts @nyushanghai

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