We are delighted to announce that four NMLers recently received grants or fellowships from the Office of the Provost. Antonia Santangelo and Suzanne Tamang each were awarded a Digital Innovation grant and Alice Lynn McMichael and Erin Glass were each given a position as Digital fellow for the coming year. As the CUNY Graduate Center begins to make its digital mark in [...]
Andrea and I have been discussing how we may be able to take the visualization from last week and make it more fully encompass the work happening in the New Media Lab. For the sake of clarity, Andrea suggested trying to make it an “annual diagram” and having it as a snapshot of the lab “right [...]
This won’t be a particularly long post, but it’s something that I’ve been working on a little bit that has excited me. There’s a lot of great javascript tools for designing sleek visualizations on the web right now (and to do with no more than just code!). Raphaël and D3 are among those which have gained a [...]
A lot of New Media Lab friends and colleagues ask me about Omeka due to my experience developing for the platform. I wrote a full length post about it on the commons but I wanted to share a bit here about some important takeaways I’ve learned about Omeka. And of course for the full post, [...]
The other day I wrote a blog on the CUNY Commons about WordPress and its role within the New Media Lab which prompted some interesting discussion with Kimon Keramidas of the Bard Graduate Center’s Digital Media Lab. At the New Media Lab, we’re currently working on developing a better way of supporting students in the way [...]
The New Media Lab is excited to congratulate André Pitanga on being honored by the Graduate Center and his peers for some of the outstanding work that he does on a daily basis. He is a big part of what makes the New Media Lab site work behind the scenes and we want to thank him for [...]
This Thursday in the New Media Lab, please join us for our final meeting of the semester at 1:00 pm! We will spend some time getting to know some of the new students involved with the lab. We will also talk about our latest ASHP project, an Omekadatabase called HERB. We hope you can make it and join [...]
Thanks again to everyone who made it out to the meeting/party last week. One thing that came up frequently was interest in video editing. David Chapin, who is teaching a Video Editing Module class this semester at the GC sent us some information on the session: “It is scheduled for Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to [...]
Firstly, if you aren’t already, you should follow the New Media Lab on Twitter: @CUNYNewMediaLab But I also wanted to share a couple of interesting links from around the web this week. Read Write Web took a critical look at technology’s effect on work in ‘the field‘. In particular, they examined Ipads and Archaeology. “If [...]
Thanks to everyone who came out to the last meeting. It was great to see everyone back in the lab, and we hope you can make it out to the next one. The meeting has led to a couple of improvements to the website. At right, you’ll see a calendar, which will feature events from [...]
