02/22 WK 06 UT/ WK 05 NYU

I once pulled the cord on my parachute and only pots and pans came out. It was cool, though, cause I safely landed in a restaurant. - Joe Schiappa

IN CLASS

HOW TO BE FUNNY IN ANY MEDIUM FOREVER: Guest Speakers Nathan Philips & Joe Schiappa, Presentation and Q &

Nathan and Joe will be discussing how jokes revolve with media, from radio comedy to jokes in the metaverse. Basically they will explain how to always be funny in any medium forever.

NATHAN PHILLIPS BIO Nathan Phillips is co-founder of Technology, Humans And Taste [THAT], a creative and innovation company in New York City. They collaborate with global brands, future focused start-ups and non-profits to make work people want. Their methodology is deeply collaborative and built on decades of experience as a creative OUTSIDE of advertising. Nathan began his career as an interactive artist. He has worked in every medium creating interactive experiences for Broadway legends in Vegas, in breakthrough experiences like The Ride New York, and he was a Blue Man for a hot second, He's shown interactive films at Sundance, IDFA, the Tribeca Film Festival, and has collaborated on digital art at MOMA, The Museum of Contemporary Art in LA, and The New Museum. He has done performance art atThe Whitney. He won The World Press Photo Contest, an Emmy and a big pile of Webbys. He also wrote a best-selling comedy book called “The Unorthodox Haggadah, A dogma-free Passover for Jews and Other Chosen People” But, he started to feel like a lot of art was using the excuse of being “avant-garde” to get away with lazy storytelling. He became really interested in the challenge of making what he calls “art where you have to prove something”, or what is more commonly known as advertising, and he's spent the last decade using everything he learned as an artist to collaborate with brands, nonprofits and the occasional politician to make campaigns, concepts and products that are designed to create desire in humans, drive engagement and give people their own stories to tell. As co-founder of Technology, Humans And Taste, Nathan has led the development of a proprietary collaborative methodology, which invites diverse and unfamiliar collaborators to co-create innovative concepts for any medium, leveraging AI to supercharge any idea. They use it for all of their projects and have built a community of several thousand collaborators. JOE SCHIAPPA BIO Joe Shciappa works as a comedy writer, creative content developer, and teacher with a portfolio that encompasses various media platforms. He has created content for Sierra Mist, MTV, IFC, Sony, and Clear Channel. He is trained in improv by the Second City Training Center and has taught improv and sketch writing at The People's Improv Theatre and the American Comedy Institute in New York City. He is known for his work on The Making Of: Please Don't Make Me Play Piano Man (2020), Truth or Dare (2014) and Conventioneers (2005).

Yuliya Lanina's Presentation on Her Work and other absurdist examples of performance based humor projects

Paloma St. Clair talks about the XR lab

OWS (Open Work Session) Finishing MICROASSIGNMENT 04: "iComedy" - Iteration 02

• Tech Demos and Skill Sharing

• Finish iComedy project in class and post to YOUTUBE or website or social media platform

ASSIGNMENT 06

NO VRL THIS WEEK (1) WRITE & POST on your✍ Process Blogyour responses to Nathan Philips & Joe Schiappa talk (2) WATCH & POST your responses to at least 5 students' MICROASSIGNMENT 04: "iComedy" - Iteration 02 (3) WRITE & POST for a total of 8 minutes about 2 things you love and WHY and 2 things that really bother you or get on your nerves and WHY. You absolutely don't have to be funny or try to write jokes, but you should absolutely add WHY you feel the way you do about these subjects. The why part is very important when it comes to comedy. This is in preparation for THE BASICS OF COMEDY WRITING FOR STAND-UP worskhop by Valerie Nies next week!