Line-up for CUNY Digital Humanities Initiatives Lightning Talks 2017

Event: “Building a Digital Humanities Community at the City University of New York”
Date: Tuesday November 14, 2017
Time: 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Place: Room 9206-07, The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 Fifth Ave., New York)

CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) and GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI) invite you to participate in the 3rd annual DHI Lightning Talks event: “Building a Digital Humanities Community at the City University of New York”. This event will take place on Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm in rooms 9206-9207 at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

The current line-up for the event is as follows:

Communities of Pedagogy

Jill Belli, New York City College of Technology; and Kristen Hackett, The Graduate Center: The OpenLab
Charlie Edwards, New York City College of Technology; and Matt Gold, The Graduate Center: Learning in the Public Square: A Public Platform for Humanities Education
Rachel Rakov, The Graduate Center: Teaching Digital Tools for Lexical Analysis
Luke Waltzer, The Graduate Center: Vocat
Jeremy March, The Graduate Center: The Hoplite Challenge

Communities of Digital Publishing and Visualization

Naomi Barrettara, The Graduate Center: The Metropolitan Opera Guild Podcast
Agustín Indaco, The Graduate Center: Inequaligram
Micki Kaufman, The Graduate Center: Quantifying Kissinger
Matt Gold, The Graduate Center: Retooling the Monograph: The Manifold Scholarship Project
Chung Chang, The Graduate Center (alumnus): FDNY Community Outreach Review and Plan

We will be accepting on-the-go Lightning Talks during the event, so if you missed the sign-up deadline but would still like to present your work, come to the event and sign up on the live whiteboard to present your work!

Please share this call widely with friends and colleagues, so we can make this the most widely attended CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative event thus far.

We are looking forward to seeing new and emerging work from students and scholars across CUNY, as well as catching up on the growth and development of past projects.

For specific questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at lrhody@gc.cuny.edu orjoteropena@gradcenter.cuny.edu.

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Spotlight: Ryan Seslow and NET-ART on the CUNY Academic Commons

Creator: Ryan Seslow
Project: NET-ART Course & Gallery on the CUNY Academic Commons
Discipline: Communication Technology, Digital Art, Digital Storytelling
Campus: York College
Follow: @ryanseslow

Description:

Over the last 8-10 months I have become an active contributor on the CUNY Academic Commons. (I have also proudly joined the commons’ sub-committee) I think it is a wonderful platform! I see the commons itself is an amazing space for activating creativity and collaboration between CUNY campuses, students, faculty and community members. After some research, ah, yes, I was a “commons voyeur” for a few years to learn and watch what was happening and how I could best contribute something new and of value.

I decided to create the NET-ART course on the Commons.

It began as a disruption (and still does) to the sidebar of the commons’ home page. Every other day I post a new animated GIF or a screen recorded series of Internet Art works that are co-dependent on a web browser to display and archive the works. The animations serve as a colorful contrast to the regularly published content. NET-ART on the commons is indeed an expressive and experimental digital art course, digital art gallery, exhibition space and a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration. An official or formal announcement about the NET-ART course launch has not yet been shared, but perhaps this Spotlight will serve as its introduction!

The Net-Art website on the commons will soon be launching its first series of open calls in three categories:  Animated GIFs, Net-Art & Digital Art / Static / Memes!

This is the “hackable” course description:

“Net-Art is a remote online digital studio art course intended to expose and expand the vocabulary of new media art to the student’s personal visual statements. Students are expected to produce a related series of electronic art works with a concentration on experimentation and the transcendence of ideas. Through various processes, both manual and technology based, students will be exposed to the use and application of electronic media via desktop and mobile art practice. Students may reference their work in conjunction with prior interests in applied arts, photography, video, history, politics, social commentary, performance art as well as any other inter-disciplinary subjects of interest. The course will take place here on this URL using (OER) Open Education Resources, Public Domain and other Creative Commons Sources.”

Over the last several years I have been exhibiting and building online portfolios and repositories of my works:

Please have a look below for examples as they are relevant to the NET-ART Course work:

1. Professor Seslow’s Internet Art Exhibition on the Newhive platform – https://newhive.com/ryanseslow/profile/all

2. Professor Seslow’s Artist Profile on the Giphy Platform – https://giphy.com/ryanseslow/

3. Professor Seslow Art Repository on Flickr – https://www.flickr.com/photos/rmsmovement/

4. Ryan Seslow.com – https://ryanseslow.com – Lots of blog posts and otherness.

Tags | commons, digital art, digital pedagogy, digital storytelling, ed tech, netart, new media, OER, pedagogy

Call for Participation: CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks 2017 (Deadline Extended to November 10)

Call for Lightning Talk Presentations at the 3rd CUNY DHI event: Building a Digital Humanities Community at the City University of New York

CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) and GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI) invite you to participate in the 3rd annual DHI Lightning Talks event: “Building a Digital Humanities Community at the City University of New York”. This event will take place on Tuesday, November 14th, 2017 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm in rooms 9206-9207 at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

Groups or individuals interested in sharing their work-in-progress are invited to sign up to give 3-5 minute presentations (with a maximum of 3 slides) using this form. The extended deadline to submit applications is Friday, November 10th, 2017.

We invite individual students, faculty, staff or groups from all disciplines to join us and share their ongoing, current, and recent work, and to get a glimpse of the wide variety of digital projects that can be found across The City University of New York. We welcome first-time presenters, as well as those who have participated in past CUNY DHI Lightning Talks.

Please share this call widely with friends and colleagues, so we can make this the most widely attended CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative event thus far.

Proposals may be submitted through this form. Once you have submitted the form, we will contact you with further information about submitting slides.

We are looking forward to seeing new and emerging work from students and scholars across CUNY, as well as catching up on the growth and development of past projects.

Deadline: November 10, 2017

For specific questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at lrhody@gc.cuny.edu or joteropena@gradcenter.cuny.edu.

Click here to sign up for the event.

Image credit: Neurons by Flick user svklimkin (2017). Creative commons license.

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