[vc_row row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ css=”.vc_custom_1526155854297{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image media=”71″ media_width_percent=”100″ media_ratio=”one-one” alignment=”center” border=”yes” css_animation=”zoom-in” uncode_shortcode_id=”916273″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_size=”bigtext” uncode_shortcode_id=”206651″]De Angela L. Duff[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h3″ text_font=”font-555555″ text_size=”bigtext” separator=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”194725″]Event Co-Curator and Co-Producer[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text text_lead=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”173231″]De Angela L. Duff<\/strong> is currently an Associate Vice Provost at New York University (NYU) and an Industry Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Teaching in higher education since 1999, she is very passionate about educating students at the intersection of design, art, and technology. She was acknowledged for this passion by being awarded the NYU Tandon School of Engineering\u2019s 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award. Over the last 15 years (and counting), one of her other passions is creating, developing, and evaluating higher education curriculum in the emerging media and technology space, first at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and subsequently at Spelman College and New York University. She has also been in higher education administration since 2009.<\/p>\n

De Angela’s mission is to share her passion for music, photography, design, technology, creativity &amp; productivity with others. She curates music and academic symposia, including the upcoming, Prince #TripleThreat40 Hybrid Symposium<\/em> (2022), Prince #SexyMF30 Virtual Symposium<\/em> (2022), and the most recent Prince #1plus1plus1is3 Virtual Symposium<\/em> (2021) and Learning To Teach Creative Technologies Remotely UnSymposium<\/em> (2021). Her past symposia include the virtual Prince #1plus1plus1is3<\/em> virtual symposium, Prince #DM40GB30<\/em> (2020), Prince BATDANCE<\/em> (2019) at Spelman College, and Prince EYE NO: Lovesexy<\/em> (2018) & Betty Davis\u2013They Say I’m Different<\/em> (2018) both at NYU Tandon. She also produced #SOTTSDC: Peach + Black 2: Sign ‘O’ The Times Super Deluxe Celebration<\/em> (2020) and co-produced Peach + Black for the 30th anniversary of Prince’s Sign ‘O’ The Times<\/em> (2017), also at NYU Tandon. She also produces, co-hosts, and edits the Prince &amp; Prince-related podcasts for Grown Folks Music. Since 2011, she has been conducting Time Warrior workshops on time management, project management, and productivity. From 2004 -2017, she also hosted No Turn Unstoned<\/em>, an online, radio show of curated mixes.<\/p>\n

Her words have been published in Prince and Popular Music: Critical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Life <\/em>(2020, Bloomsbury) &amp; the Black Magnolias Literary Journal’s Special Issue on Prince<\/em> (2020). Her creative work has been featured in publications such as HOW<\/em> & Print<\/em> magazines, and the books, Now Loading<\/em> & www.animation: Animation Design for the World Wide Web<\/em>. She is, also, one of the featured, educator interviews in the book, Code as Creative Medium: A Handbook for Computational Art and Design<\/em> (2021, MIT Press).<\/p>\n

She has spoken on WNYC, BBC Manchester, and Minnesota Public Radio, and has judged Eyebeam’s Trust Residency<\/em>, Tribeca Film Institute’s New Media Fund<\/em>, and HOW’s Interactive Design Competition<\/em>.<\/p>\n

De Angela also speaks at numerous conferences, internationally. Next, she will be speaking at the second Dayton Funk Symposium<\/em> in November 2021. She has spoken at the Prince 78-88: An Interdisciplinary Conference,<\/em> Black Portraiture[s] V<\/em> (NYU), IV<\/em> (Harvard), III<\/em> (South Africa), II<\/em> (Florence, Italy) & II: Revisited<\/em> (NYU), the Prince from MPLS symposium<\/em>\u00a0at the University of Minnesota, Purple Reign: An interdisciplinary conference on the life and legacy of Prince<\/em> at the University of Salford in Manchester, England, EYEO<\/em> in Minneapolis, MN, NYC’s Creative Tech Week<\/em> & Raising The Bar<\/em>, AIGA\u2019s Social Studies: Educating Designers in a Connected World<\/em> at MiCA in Baltimore, Maryland, AIGA’s Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media<\/em> in Boston, MA, and HOW\u2019s Annual Design Conference<\/em>.<\/p>\n

De Angela holds an MFA in Studio Art (Photography) from Maryland Institute College of Art (MiCA), a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University, and a BS in Textile Engineering from Georgia Tech. 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