Interactive Telecommunications
Courses
Applications of Interactive Technologies
Biography
Red Burns is the Founder and new Chief Collaborations Officer 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 received a Lifetime
Achievement Award from Canadian New Media and was an honoree at the
Exploratorium’s 32nd Annual Awards Dinner honoring Women in Science. In
2005 she was added to the New York Women in Communications, Inc. Matrix
Hall of Fame, In 2004, she was honored with a Distinguished Leadership
Award for achievement in technology from the New York Hall of Science
and in 2002 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." "Crain's" cited
her as one of the "Top 100 People Who Will Shape New York." Interactive
Week picked her as one of the "Top 25 Influential People on the Net,"
and she was named one of Newsweek's "50 for the Future," New York
Magazine's "New York Cyber Sixty," Silicon Alley's 100 and "Crain's New
York Business" listed her both as one of the 100 top leaders of New
York's economy, as well as one of the top 100 most influential women in
business.Professor Burns serves as a board member for the
Charles Revson Foundation, and has served on the boards of The Art
Director's Club and Creative Capital. She has served on "Seminars on
Science," a program of The National Center for Science, Literacy, and
Technology, which is part of the American Museum of National History
Advisory Board, and has been a mentor to the Ross School in East
Hampton, New York. She is also an education advisor to the New Museum of
Contemporary Art.Professor Burns has served on the New York
Times Digital Company Advisory Board, IVREA Institute (Italy), The
Visual Media Task Force, The Convergent Media Group, Electronic
Neighborhood, 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 Burns 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,
The Rockefeller Foundation New Media Fellowship Panel, as a juror for
the Creative Capital Grants, as well as The American Institute of
Graphic Arts "365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions."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 created 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, and was the Principal Investigator on two major
research projects, funded by Intel and Microsoft.
