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Lightning Talks 2019 Recap
On 22, Nov 2019 | In Uncategorized | By Filipa Calado
Hello Members of the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative,
Thank you for a great event last month! The 2019 Lightning Talks: Building a Digital Humanities Community was exceptional, bringing together digital researchers from nine different CUNY colleges.
We loved hearing about all of your projects, and we hope you will keep us updated at future GCDI events.
Attached is a copy of the event program, and a link to the master slide deck.
Call for Participation: CUNY DHI Lightning Talks 2019
On 04, Oct 2019 | In Events of Interest | By Lisa Marie Rhody
Come present your digital projects, ongoing digital humanities work, or research questions at the Fifth Annual CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks event.
When: Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Time: 6:30 to 8:00 PM with reception to follow
Who: All CUNY Students, Faculty, and Staff
Where: The Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY
What: Present your digital humanities project, research, or questions during a 3-minute / 3-slide “lightning” talk. Lightning talks offer a very brief insight into your ongoing digital humanities project, research, or activity to a community of engaged CUNY colleagues.
How to participate: Sign up using this form by October 18, 2019. Visit cuny.is/cunydhi for more information, and share our event flyer. The event is free and open to the public, so you can encourage colleagues, peers, and more to come learn more about CUNY’s vibrant DH work.
Please share this call widely with friends and colleagues whom you think might be interested in joining the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative to present their work.
For specific questions, please contact us at lrhody@gc.cuny.edu or gc.digitalfellows@gmail.com.
Call for Participation: CUNY DHI Lightning Talks 2018 (Deadline November 6)
On 22, Oct 2018 | In Meetings | By Javier Otero Peña
Come present your digital projects, ongoing digital humanities work, or research questions at the Fourth Annual CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks event.
When: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Who: All CUNY Students, Faculty, and Staff
Where: The Graduate Center, CUNY, Room C198
What: Present your digital humanities project, research, or questions during a 3-minute / 3-slide “lightning” talk. Lightning talks offer a very brief insight into your ongoing digital humanities project, research, or activity to a community of engaged CUNY colleagues.
How to participate: Sign up using this form before November 6th.
Don’t miss this year’s CUNY DHI event, featuring a keynote lecture by Kim Knight titled “Wearable Interfaces and Feminist Sleeper Agents.” Following the keynote, CUNY students, faculty, and staff will share their projects through short 3-minute, 3 slide talks, showcasing the diverse and innovative digital humanities projects happening across the CUNY system. We invite individual students, faculty, staff or groups from all disciplines to join more than 50 scholars who have already shared their projects in previous CUNY DHI events (learn more about some of these projects in the CUNY DHI website). We welcome first-time presenters, as well as those who have participated in past CUNY DHI Lightning Talks.
Reception to follow in Room 5307. This event is free and open to the public.
Please share this call widely with friends and colleagues whom you think might be interested in joining the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative to present their work.
We look forward to seeing you there and to welcoming you into the CUNY DHI community!
Deadline: November 6th, 2018
For specific questions, please contact us at lrhody@gc.cuny.edu or joteropena@gradcenter.cuny.edu.
Line-up for CUNY Digital Humanities Initiatives Lightning Talks 2017
On 14, Nov 2017 | In Events of Interest | By Javier Otero Peña
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.
Spotlight: Ryan Seslow and NET-ART on the CUNY Academic Commons
On 13, Nov 2017 | In Spotlight | By Jojo Karlin
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.
Call for Participation: CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative Lightning Talks 2017 (Deadline Extended to November 10)
On 01, Nov 2017 | In Events of Interest | By Javier Otero Peña
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.
Spotlight: Jeff Allred and Research, Interpretation, Play: Billy Budd as Role-Playing Game via Ivanhoe for WordPress
On 27, Oct 2017 | In Spotlight | By Jojo Karlin
Project: Research, Interpretation, Play: Billy Budd as Role-Playing Game via Ivanhoe for WordPress
Project type: Digital Pedagogy, Writing
Campus: Hunter College
Follow: @jballred
GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series: Johanna Devaney
On 17, Oct 2017 | In Events of Interest | By Jojo Karlin
Registration for the GCDI Sound Series event Thursday, November 16th, 6:30-8:30 is now open.
GC Digital Initiatives Sound Series presents Dr. Johanna Devaney, who will introduce and teach her open-source software, Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit. Join us to learn about developing music software and to demo this toolkit for examining intervals between notes, tempo and relative dynamic level between notes, frequency and vibrato.
Read more at GCDI Events.
Spotlight: Equality Archive
On 16, Oct 2017 | In Spotlight | By Jojo Karlin
Creator(s): Shelly Eversley, Associate Professor, English, Baruch College, CUNY
Laurie Hurson, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Project: Equality Archive
Discipline: Feminist Archive, Digital Media
Campus: GC and Baruch
Follow: @EqualityArchive, @ShellyEversley, @Laurhur
The Equality Archive is a digital platform that hosts open access information about the history of sex and gender equality in the United States. Each archive entry contains intersectional and multimodal content in the form of text, images, sound, and video. In its collaborative and transformative approach, the Equality Archive marks a new direction for Open Educational Resources by offering multimodal educational content without copyright restrictions and builds on the feminist practice of collaborative work and socially transformative potential.
Written by a collective of over 25 feminists who are professors, artists, and authors, each archive entry is peer-reviewed and connects readers to opportunities to get involved through volunteering or donating to an established organization already working toward a social good that must include empowered women. As readers explore one entry, they will find connections–intersections–with other entries. They can browse the archive by searching via key words located in Equality Archive’s tag cloud or they can jump between entries through text hyperlinks, images, videos, and other media. By providing access to multimodal, open, and educational content, Equality Archive aims to share information and spark interest so that it can ripple outward, becoming a new wave of knowledge and action in the service of social good.
More information can be found in the Equality Project Statement: Equality Archive: Open Educational Resources as Feminist Praxis
Spotlight: QWriting 2.0
On 13, Oct 2017 | In Spotlight | By Jojo Karlin
Project director: Kevin Ferguson
Project: QWriting 2.0
Project type: Digital Pedagogy, Writing
Discipline: English
Campus: Queens College
Follow: @KevinLFerguson
Qwriting, a WordPress installation that serves the Queens College community, has over 19,000 users and hosts thousands of sites, including course blogs, student portfolios, and organizational pages. Qwriting 2.0 is a multiyear initiative to build on the Qwriting platform and the communities that rely on it. Over the past year, the Qwriting 2.0 initiative has included programs to support digital writing pedagogy, technical improvements to the Qwriting platform, increased support for teachers making use of Qwriting in their work, and increased support for student blogging initiatives such as QC Voices.
In spring of 2017, the Qwriting 2.0 team began a workshop series in digital writing pedagogy for instructors at Queens. This series, designed to show teachers in a variety of disciplines how best to deploy Qwriting and WordPress in their classrooms, engaged topics such as QWriting for Digital Assignments and Assessment and Strategies for Online Discussion, Annotation, and Collaborative Work. These sessions provide instructors with both the technical skills needed to use WordPress effectively and the space to consider how digital writing pedagogy can augment their own teaching practices.
To provide the Queens College community with a high-impact example of digital writing in practice, Qwriting 2.0 provides support for QC Voices, a flagship site that features student thought on issues such as queerness, social justice, equal representation in literature, and life in New York City. QC Voices highlights not only the diversity in perspective of Queens College students, but also their technical proficiency in both writing and modern digital rhetoric. The Qwriting 2.0 team maintains the site and guides and promotes the work of student bloggers as they create work that is routinely read by hundreds or thousands of visitors, both within and outside the Queens College community.
A critical part of the Qwriting 2.0 initiative is the ongoing evaluation and improvement of the Qwriting platform, including considerations of usability, aesthetics, and performance. In the last year, the Qwriting 2.0 team has made technical improvements to increase the speed of the platform, redesigned the site’s home page and documentation, and rethought the signup and site creation process to better serve common use cases. The team also actively encourages adoption of the platform through consultations, class visits, and office hours.
CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative
Welcome to the blog of the CUNY DHI, an effort to build momentum and community around Digital Humanities practitioners at CUNY. We hope you'll join us at our upcoming events and that you'll follow this blog to hear about the latest news in the field.
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CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative
Welcome to the blog of the CUNY DHI, an effort to build momentum and community around Digital Humanities practitioners at CUNY. We hope you'll join us at our upcoming events and that you'll follow this blog to hear about the latest news in the field.
If you are a member of CUNY and the Commons, please join our group.
Be sure to check out and add to the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide.
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