Interactive Telecommunications
 | Red Burns |
Courses
Applications of Interactive Technologies
Biography
Red Burns is Arts Professor and Chair of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She was named Tokyo Broadcasting System Chair in 1997.
Most recently, Professor Burns was a panelist on the AAAA Digital Conference for Agencies in May 2008. She was also a member of the 2005 Selection Committee for the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, which was awarded to Peter Sellars, and earlier in 2005, she was added to the New York Women in Communications, Inc. Matrix Hall of Fame. In November of 2004, she was honored with a Distinguished Leadership Award for achievement in technology from the New York Hall of Science. In 2002, she was a recipient of the Chrysler Design Award. In addition, she has received a number of other awards including the 1997 Matrix Award (the first in the "New Media" category), and in 1998, the Crain's All-Stars Educator's Award, and the Mayor of New York's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology. She was also inducted into the Art Director Club's Hall of Fame in 1998 with the "Special Educator's Award." She has been listed on Richard Saul Wurman's "Who's Really Who 1000, The Most Creative Individuals in the USA 2002."
Professor Burns serves on the Advisory Board of the Berkeley Center for New Media, and is a board member for the Charles Revson Foundation and Creative Capital. She has served on the Art Director's Club Board, New York Times Digital Company Advisory Board, IVREA Institute (Italy), and ProBono.net Boards. She was a founding member of the Media Lab Europe Board and the Board of Directors of the New York New Media Association (NYNMA).
Red has served as a juror for the On-Line Journalism Awards, the National Magazine Awards, and the Webby Awards. Most recently she served on The National Design Awards committee.
During the 1970's, as head of NYU's Alternate Media Center, she designed and directed a series of telecommunications projects including two-way television for and by senior citizens, telecommunications applications to serve the developmentally disabled, and one of the first Teletext field trials in the United States (at WETA in Washington, D.C.). She also produced a CD-ROM on chaos theory.
This innovative research center set the stage for the creation of the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU in 1979. She continues to research and teach.
