Week of Events
Exhibition: The Colorful Influence of Susan Daykin — Opens
February 9–March 3, 2024 Art and Design Gallery The Colorful Influence of Susan Daykin at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Art and Design Gallery celebrates the artwork and teaching of Fine Arts Professor Susan Daykin. Throughout the 52 years she has worked at FIT, her impact on the Fine Arts program, its students, and the […]
NYC Digital Fashion Symposium
NYC Digital Fashion Symposium
FIT DTech Lab partners with Digital Fashion Week to bring the NYC Digital Fashion Symposium to FIT. Across three cities and in parallel with traditional fashion weeks, Digital Fashion Week is a lens through which we view the future of fashion. Under the three pillars of thought-leadership, innovation and creativity, Digital Fashion Week disrupts the […]
Globally Connected @ FIT: Cultural Mapping of American and Chinese Dreams: Imagining Across Transpacific Boundaries
Globally Connected @ FIT: Cultural Mapping of American and Chinese Dreams: Imagining Across Transpacific Boundaries
A discussion based on Dr. Melody Li’s new book Transpacific Cartographies: Narrating the Contemporary Chinese Diaspora in the United States. The book examines how contemporary Chinese diasporic narratives address the existential loss of home for immigrant communities at a time of global precarity and amid rising Sino-U.S. tensions. Intersecting with and bridging Sinophone studies, Chinese […]
AI Speakers Series: David Doermann
AI Speakers Series: David Doermann
Join the CET and the Office of Faculty Development for the first of three Spring 2024 professional development workshops focused on AI in higher education. The goal of this series is to strengthen faculty knowledge of AI from technical, industry, and educational perspectives. Our first featured speaker will be David Doermann, PhD, University at Buffalo, […]
Phygital Runway Show
Phygital Runway Show
FIT DTech Lab partners with Digital Fashion Week to bring the Phygital Runway show with the (world's first ever) live motion capture hologram courtesy of Future Front Row. Fashion has always been more than the latest silhouette, it is an art form that draws on cultural texture overlaid with eclectic creative and technical skills to […]