Category: Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Video Conferencing for Small Classrooms and Tight Budgets

NYU Institute of Fine Arts

Description

For this year’s Torch Tech Share Fair, the Institute of Fine Arts would like to present information regarding a small classroom video conferencing system that was installed in the Institute’s small seminar room in the Duke House. We were interested in creating a space that complied with NYU standards for video conferencing, but on a much smaller scale and budget. Institute IT staff worked in conjunction with several university departments and consultants to achieve a practical, low cost set up that was built in the Spring 2016 semester.

Presenters

Joe Rosario

Video Conferencing for Small Classrooms and Tight Budgets

Jason Varone

Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

Mapping Institute of Fine Arts Alumni is an online interactive map that visualizes the international reach of the Institute of Fine Arts’ alumni. The map uses d3.js to manipulate our alumni data set. Now, visitors to our website can locate the current employment status of over 1,000 active IFA alumni.

Mapping IFA Alumni can be used as a recruitment tool. For example, prospective students can see how many museum directors worldwide were educated at the Institute, or what percentage of our alumni work in conservation. The map can also be used by our current students and alumni to find each other when they travel the globe visiting museums.

This project was a collaboration between the IFA’s Web and Electronic Media Manager, Jason Varone, and a student in NYU’s ITP program, Sagar Mohite. Sagar graduated last semester.