# Yury Gitman: teaching research leads

Recorded September 28, 2026 from Yury's own recollection. **Unverified dates and program details; not a checked institutional affiliation.**

Yury recalls teaching two or three sessions around 2003–2004, with Parsons students, before leaving Eyebeam and continuing to teach at Parsons. Research questions: whether these were Eyebeam-hosted workshops, a Parsons course partnership, or another teaching residency; official program title, session dates and credited role. Do not describe these as a confirmed separate residency without evidence.

Follow institutional archives, archived syllabi and public workshop announcements. Existing Eyebeam residency evidence: https://eyebeam.org/artists/yury-gitman/ . This page does not by itself establish the recalled sessions.

# Yury Gitman — Parsons / Eyebeam teaching lead

Checked September 28, 2026. This note separates confirmed affiliation from an incompletely documented recollection.

## Confirmed from a primary institutional source

[The New School’s Parsons faculty profile](https://www.newschool.edu/parsons/faculty/yuri-gitman/) states teaching at Parsons began in 2003. It lists the current rank as Part-time Assistant Professor and identifies prior Eyebeam artist-in-residence work. It also supplies NYU ITP master’s 2002 and Georgia Tech bachelor’s 1999. This supports the proposed Parsons teaching edge and two existing-record date updates, but does not confirm a particular Eyebeam-hosted workshop sequence.

## Specific historical lead, not a new checked edge

An [archived Interesting People mailing-list post dated December 25, 2003](https://seclists.org/interesting-people/2003/Dec/132) reproduces a Newswise release about a December 11, 2003 subway MagicBikes event. It identifies instructor Yuri Gitman, Parsons Design & Technology students, and a classroom project named “Wireless Bikes and Urbanites,” associated with the Eyebeam Education Division. This is much more specific than a generic biography, but it is a forwarded reproduction rather than a recovered university or Eyebeam original.

The reproduced text is a promising match for Yury’s recollection. It does not establish two or three sessions, which dates individual meetings occurred, or whether teaching happened physically at Eyebeam. Do not identify it conclusively as the recalled sessions or create a separate residency edge.

Next evidence to seek: a Parsons or Eyebeam syllabus/program announcement under the exact class title; Newswise’s original release; a 2003 Magicbike.net project archive; Eyebeam Education Division schedules or annual reports for 2003–2004. Searches of the exact title, Newswise, and Eyebeam did not return an accessible primary original during this pass.

Additional context, not a primary verification of the sessions: [WIRED, August 2, 2004](https://www.wired.com/2004/08/bike-writer-pedals-for-protests/) identifies Gitman as Joshua Kinberg’s Parsons adviser. [Yury’s course archive](https://makingtoys.net/about/) repeats teaching since 2003 and describes its student posts as covering 2008–2013; those posts do not document 2003–2004 sessions.