Dave Parisi

@daveparisi.bsky.social

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Researching histories & futures of touch tech/haptics Prof @ NYU Tandon TCS/IDM https://shorturl.at/0Wwzc Archaeologies of Touch https://tinyurl.com/4kcxxkfk Edit @ ROMchip journal https://shorturl.at/sDFI1 Mostly reformed goth

Black and white photo of a young White man holding his index finger in a long robotic arm that is hooked up to a computer on the desk next to him
Stage of Radio City Music Hall, adorned sign gothic candles, cabinets & coffins
Fireworks exploding over West Village rooftops
Rusty mailbox with the family name Payne in large script, and the names Ralph and Maxximum underneath in smaller lettering
Mets mascot walking through the stands dancing and gesturing to the fans
Scoreboard showing Mets lineup and their hitters' OPS, with the score 3-1 Rockies leading
View of sun-drenched Citi Field from the middle section of the first base side. Mets are the team on the field, Rockies at bat.
Album sleeve for Health's Neo-Industrial Saga
Fridge magnet with a grid of emoji faces each wearing Mets hats. A moveable box with the text "today I feel" is placed over a consternated face that says "frustrated" under it.
Dr Manhattan on Mars meme, with text in the first panel reading "it's 2007, I am at scms in Chicago complaining about how a Media Studies doesn't pay enough attention to touch. The second panel reads "it's 2017, I am at scms in Chicago complaining about how a Media Studies doesn't pay enough attention to touch" and the third panel reads ""it's 2026 I am at scms in Chicago complaining about how a Media Studies doesn't pay enough attention to touch."
N20 Feeling the Virtual Embodiment and Sensation in Games, Porn, and Haptic Media Swissôtel Gstaad/Zermatt  LUCERNE LEVEL Chair Marilia Kaisar   Independent Scholar Cecilia Chen   University of Hong Kong, King’s College London   “Pornographic Depth: From the Stereograph, to VR, to AR” Teddy Pozo   Occidental College   “Gender-Swap and Trans Embodiment in 1990s VR Imaginaries” David Parisi   New York University   “‘Just a little vibration isn’t worth strapping in’: the old materialities and new banalities of virtual touch” Marilia Kaisar   Independent Scholar   “Touch Interrupted: Teledildonics and Virtual Intimacy”
Screen capture of an Yahoo Fantasy+ image that reads "Flawless lineups every week" and then shows an example of lineup changes the "Assistant GM" made in Week 5, with the impact of +9.32 projected points.
A tattered round black sticker on the sidewalk with white text that reads: "A BETTER METAVERSE IS COMING SCAN TO PREVIEW & CLAIM A FREE GIFT" A QR code is beneath the text with the link www.meetkai.com underneath the QR code.
Sunrise over the ocean, with a long fishing pier and a beach in the foreground
Poster for the film "Network" with an image of an older white man in a suit standing at the end of a long green table. A body lies beneath the white text of the film title.
Sticker on a wooden wall with text that reads "remember kids electricity will kill you" and drawing of stick figure made from electrical bolts holding a knife, about to stab a boy wearing a flannel shirt and baseball cap
Spotify Wrapped showing We Have A Technical as my top podcast of the year
Spotify Wrapped "your top genres" list that reads 1) Cold Wave 2) EBM 3) Electronica 4) Synthpop 5) Goth
Fake ad for a World Trade Center Aroma Diffuser, marked down from $400 to $4.00. A red hang holds a toy plane above the two towers as vapor rises into the air. A banner at the bottom states that the item has sold out.
A casserole dish with a mix of escarole, cherry peppers & prosciutto
Picture of a tv screen showing a female office worker staring at a holographic screen, with a white and silver Novint Falcon 3d mouse of the desk. The Netflix interface is overlayed on the image.
District by district map of the NYC mayoral election results showing lower Manhattan, taken from the New York Times, with heavily pro-Cuomo districts (shaded in brown) concentrated in Tribeca & the west side of the Financial District.
Pie chart showing increased share of taxes that would be paid by to 1% in AGI under Mamdani's proposed tax increase. Current split is 60% paid by the bottom 99% and 40% by top 1%, under Mamdani's increase it would reverse to 39% paid by the bottom 99% and 61% by top 1%.
Baseball card showing Gary Varsho, a young white male wearing a Cubs uniform, holding his baseball bat outward from his crotch in a suggestive way
Older male singer wearing dark sunglasses (on the right) guitarist in the background behund him, and male keyboard player with long hair & glasses on the right, all on stage with pink and purple sunburst glass behind them.
Promotional photo for Blue Jays-Mariners game 2, showing a boat on a choppy lake that says Seattle on the side with the Toronto skyline barely visible in the background
Drawing of the character Arseface from the Preacher comic book series. A male face with a sealed shut mouth that has a thin line of drool dripping from it, and a large indentation in the middle of the forehead.
Antique medical electricity battery, a wooden box with a panel of numbered connectors and cables inside. Detailed instructions on the inside of the box top
Fridge magnet showing various emoji faces, with a box around the scowling face that reads "today I feel...frustrated". Other expressions include embarrassed, surprised and ecstatic
French dip sandwich cut in half facing camera being held by a woman's hands
Jimmy Fallon putting his hand in Donald Trump's hair on an episode of the Tonight Show
drawing of a cutaway of the uterus. caption below reads: "Fig. 74.— Faradization of the Uterus.— One of the poles is connected with a bifurcated electrode, one branch of which is placed on the lumbar, and the other on the hypogastric region. The other pole is applied in the cervix (or at the os) by an insulated uterine electrode."
City buildings with the World Trade Center in the distance and WTC footprint lights shining into the sky to commemorate the 9-11 anniversary
Lobster roll with fries on a piece of checkered serving paper
Spine of the Bill Maher book "What this comedian said will shock you" on the shelf of a bookstore with several other books around it
View from the top of a mountain, harbor and green wooded islands on the distance
Cut in half bagel sandwich with a layer of lox, cream cheese, tomato & onion again the backdrop of brown paper wrap
Screenshot of the FAQ page on the OWO haptic shirt Discord. FAQs include "I AM NOT FEELING IN A MUSCLE", "THE SENSATIONS FEELS UNPLEASANT", and "I AM NOT FEELING WHILE PLAYING".
Black and white photo of a woman in a movie theater lobby touching a Mills Novelty Company electric shock arcade machine, which has a sign over it asking "is this too hot to handle?" with a "coming soon" poster for the film "Too Hot to Handle" in the background.