The New Media Lab is offering $500 awards to support digital projects by Graduate Center students in the History or Public Health Ph.D. programs, or to support digital projects by doctoral students in any discipline that relate to these fields. Applicants must have worked at the NML on the project for at least three months [...]
OccupyData NYC Hackathons provide a participatory, non-corporate environment for artists, scientists, engineers and anyone interested in the broad aims of the global Occupy movement. Hackathon projects remake, reuse, and reimagine data and technology in the interests of participatory democracy and civic action. Everyone—regardless of skill level—is invited to bring ideas and resources, collaborate on interesting projects, and [...]
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 [...]
I recently interviewed Aaron Knoll, project adviser at the New Media lab about his perspectives on creative processes. I plan to perform similar interviews involving other individuals in the future. The interviews are part of my NML project, LocateFlow, which explores the nature of creativity. You can click the link below to listen to Aaron’s thoughts. Interviews [...]
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 [...]
Last reminder of the upcoming NML general meeting this Wednesday 4/6 at 1pm in the lab. Luke Waltzer and Mikhail Gershovich of Baruch’s Schwartz Communications Institute will be presenting. They’ll be talking about: VOCAT, a highly flexible and extensible, open-source web application designed to help students become confident, dynamic public speakers… and Blogs@Baruch, an online publishing [...]
What is Participatory Design? How can you use it in your project (up to you, but I bet you could)? Does it count as research ? (yes) A short seminar/workshop using your own projects as possible participatory injection sites; Thursday 3/24 in the New Media Lab 1:30-3 Please let me know if you can make [...]
NMLers: Many of you are working with mapping your research so thought you might be interested in this: The Bard Graduate Center will be holding a symposium on Mapping New Media on Friday, March 25, 2011 from 1:00 to 5:00pm. Maps are a wonderful metaphor for the new media world. But even more, digital mapping [...]
Hey all, Just a quick reminder: we’re gathering in the lab at 1:00 on Tuesday for our monthly general meeting. We’ll welcome our 3 new students who were recently made “official”. Yes! A testament to the success of the Lab and to the GC’s commitment to continuing its support for students. Feel free to bring [...]
