Jay Van Buren’s Profile
art, design, technology, communication strategy
Jay Van Buren is an artist and designer living and working out of Brooklyn New York . He has been an artist, curator, teacher and writer working in the New York art scene since 1997. He was the founder and co-director of the legendary Videoland gallery on Manhattan ‘s Lower East Side, and his artworks have been exhibited in Kansas City , New York , Washington DC , Amsterdam and Rotterdam . His recent artworks and events have veered into the realm of Relational Aesthetics creating encounters between people from radically different subcultures. One such example is Brooklyn is Watching a mixed reality project.
He was the founder and CEO of Early-Adopter an interactive marketing firm that specializes in the arts and education that changed into an AR and VR for education company and was sold to The Glimpse Group (NASDAQ: VRAR) in 2018.
He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Membit, an Augmented reality company (http://www.membit.co)
He holds a BFA in painting from the University of Kansas , and an MFA in painting from Parsons, the New School for Design. @cjayvanburen
My Courses
COMD 2451 – OL23 Web Design I, Spring 2022
Required for all associate level students, this capstone course is designed to showcase work done in previous courses. Focused on website design and development, topics include creative user interface design and best workflow practice. Students design a portfolio website using an HTML template, and learn web design, typography and web programming skills. HTML and CSS are taught.
This is an intensive course in design and development of dynamic websites. The course offers a combination of theoretical and practical information on how to combine the PHP scripting language with the MySQL database to produce dynamic web content. Students are expected to have intermediate to expert skills in HTML and CSS. The goal of the course is to give students the experience of designing dynamic web content and demonstrate tasks such as generating images dynamically, sending and managing email, facilitating user discussions and managing content. The purpose is to learn a professional approach to website conceptualization and execution.
This is an intensive course in design and development of dynamic websites. The course offers a combination of theoretical and practical information on how to combine the PHP scripting language with the MySQL database to produce dynamic web content. Students are expected to have intermediate to expert skills in HTML and CSS. The goal of the course is to give students the experience of designing dynamic web content and demonstrate tasks such as generating images dynamically, sending and managing email, facilitating user discussions and managing content. The purpose is to learn a professional approach to website conceptualization and execution.
This is an intensive course in design and development of dynamic websites. The course offers a combination of theoretical and practical information on how to combine the PHP scripting language with the MySQL database to produce dynamic web content. Students are expected to have intermediate to expert skills in HTML and CSS. The goal of the course is to give students the experience of designing dynamic web content and demonstrate tasks such as generating images dynamically, sending and managing email, facilitating user discussions and managing content. The purpose is to learn a professional approach to website conceptualization and execution.
This is an intensive course in design and development of dynamic websites. The course offers a combination of theoretical and practical information on how to combine the PHP scripting language with the MySQL database to produce dynamic web content. Students are expected to have intermediate to expert skills in HTML and CSS. The goal of the course is to give students the experience of designing dynamic web content and demonstrate tasks such as generating images dynamically, sending and managing email, facilitating user discussions and managing content. The purpose is to learn a professional approach to website conceptualization and execution.
My Projects
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The COMD Futures Collaboratory supports faculty and student research in emerging technologies, including augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) in art, design, and advertising.
The purpose of this project is to create a forum to ask questions, generate discussion, and share teaching materials, resources, and ideas about teaching and learning on the OpenLab. Avatar image: “The open door” by hehaden.
COMD Student Portfolio Committee
To research and coordinate the implementation of student Student Portfolios in COMD courses. Please join this project if you would like to participate!
My Clubs
Student Government Association
The Student Government Association is the representative body for students. We are responsible for recommending student activity fee allocations, shaping policies affecting student life, coordinating extracurricular events and chartering new organizations. Feel free to contact SGA President, Lucas Almonte, with any questions, suggestions or concerns. He can be reached at SGAPresident@CityTech.Cuny.Edu If you wish to start a club on campus contact SGA Vice President, Sylwester Dombroski, at SGAVP@CityTech.Cuny.Edu
