Vincenzo De Masi
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Digital Design and Production
Campus: Beijing
Area(s) of Expertise: Creative Industries, Chinese Animation Industry, Film and Media Studies
Education Credentials: Ph.D.
Joined New York Tech: 2015
Vincenzo De Masi is an Associate Professor of Art and Media Technology at New York Institute of Technology (Beijing Campus at Communication University of China), he obtained his Ph.D. at University of Lugano (CH) with a dissertation on creative industries focused on Chinese animation. He is author of several articles about the creative industry in Asia.
Recent Projects/Research
- Team leader and tutor of China Film Silk Road documentary.
- Research Fellow, University of Zurich, Creative industries: Chinese animation
Publications
- De Masi V., Yan Han (2016), Creative industries in China: what is the role of the animation in the Chinese educational framework, in Storytelling and Education in the Digital Age: Challenges and Opportunities, accepted and ready to be published by Editorial Office MEDA.
- De Masi V., Yan Han (2015), The new phase of animation industry in China in the volume Creative Districts around the World, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences, (ISBN/EAN: 978‐90‐819011‐3‐0).
- De Masi V., Yan Han (May 2014), Animation, a new method of educational communication in China, in Media and Education in the Digital Age: a critical introduction, Peter Lang Academic Research (ISBN 978-3-631-65154-4).
- De Masi V. (2013), Miss Puff, a new way of communication in China, KOME Hungarian Communication Studies Association, (ISSN 2063-7330).
- Benecchi E., De Masi V. (2013), Media Management in Disaster Events: A Case Study of Japanese Earthquake in ‘Business Strategies and Approaches for Effective Engineering Management’, IGI Global, (ISBN-13: 9781466636583, LCC:T56).
Honors and Awards
- 2010, Finalist at the Changping International Youth Audiovisual Festival, with the film “Aurora”
- 2009, ProDoc - Doctoral Programmes - Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- 2009, Scholarship for Doctoral Program (PhD) of Korean Embassy of Seoul
- 2008, Research scholarship, University Bocconi of Milan, (IT)
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- Contemporary Art in Context
- History of Art and Technology
- Television Production Workshop
- Aesthetics and Theory
- Public Relations and Publicity
- Graduate Critique/Thesis Orientation
- Foundations of Speech Communication