Corey Menscher
From ITPedia
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| mailto:corey.menscher.nyu@gmail.com | |
| Current City | NYC |
| Homepage Location | http://www.crackblur.com |
| Photographs Location | http://www.flickr.com/crackhead |
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| Blog Location | http://crackblur.com |
| microfeed location (e.g. Twitter) | http://twitter.com/crackhead |
| City of Origin | New York |
| Country of Origin | NY |
| Undergraduate Studies | Washington University in St. Louis ('95) |
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| ITP Graduation Year | 2009 |
| Current ITP Status | Alumnus, Resident Researcher |
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Bio
Corey graduated from the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program in May 2009. His studies encompassed Physical Computing, Wearable Technology, Computational Media, Social Software, and Mobile Apps & Location-based Services. Prior to ITP, Corey worked in the Internet industry since 1995. He started as a co-founder of a successful web startup, worked as an interface engineer and designer at Organic, Inc., and developed a number of web applications for the American Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, Euronext, and other major equities markets around the world for TCB Data Systems, Inc.
| Projects made | Has description |
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| GeoGenius | Geogeni.us is an ongoing scavenger hunt for the iPhone that interprets players latitude and longitude position as the answer to clues created by other players. |
| Infinity Mirrored Room - LEDs Forever | "Infinity Mirrored Room - LEDs Forever" is a re-imagining of Yayoi Kusama's 1966 piece Infinity Mirrored Room - Love Forever. It brings it into the 21st-century through the use of RGB LEDs and interactivity to allow viewers to perceive an infinite virtual space in a breathtaking way. |
| Project Database SMS Tagging | This service allows ITP Gallery visitors to "tag" projects and have information about them via SMS and email. |
| The Honeycomb | The Honeycomb is a suite of telepresence devices that enable physically separated spouses to connect with one another by transmitting fragments of sensory experiences of archetypal parenting activities from various stages of babyhood. |
| The Kickbee | The Kickbee is a wearable device that senses when a fetus kicks inside the womb, and communicates the event to the outside world. |
| The Naked Pixel | The Naked Pixel challenges our notions of decency in public arenas by manifesting each pixel of a naked photograph sequentially, and further "undresses" each pixel when the lights go out. |
| The Peggy Lite-Brite | The Peggy Lite-Brite converts a static LED-sign kit into a dynamic and fun "Lite-Brite". Users can create their own low-res graphics by inserting LED's into any of the 625 female headers on the board. |
Corey Menscher is an ITP candidate for graduation in May 2009. You can contact him at corey.menscher[at]nyu[dot]edu.
ITP Community
Corey was DriveBy King for the Spring and Fall 2008 semesters. He was also a member of ITP's David Payne-Carter Award Committee for 2008, which culminated in ITP's first ever recognition by this award for faculty member Shawn Van Every.
Other ITP Project Participation
5in5 - August 2008
vLinkr - Summer 2008 (Research Assistant with Shawn Van Every)
ITPedia Project Texting Tool - May 2008
ITPedia (in collaboration with John Dimatos and Nancy Lewis) - Spring 2008
Portfolio Site
Blog
Corey's primary blog can be found at http://crackblur.com, and his ITP blog can be found at http://www.menscher.com/blog.
