The Immersive Narratives: Advertising, Engagement, and Storytelling panel was held at Baruch’s Performing Arts Center on Thursday, April 7, 2016. It featured three panelists—two from within the advertising industry, and one media professor. At the heart of the presentations and discussions was the concept of immersion and participation in media—how viewers and consumers are no longer just passive audience members.…
Category: Event Reviews
Open Source, Web-Based Teaching and the Digital Humanities: “Critical Approaches to Teaching With Web-based Technologies,” Workshop Provided by CUNY Teaching & Learning Center
EVENT IN BRIEF The workshop “Critical Approaches to Teaching With Web-based Technologies,” run by Andrew G. McKinney of the CUNY Graduate Center’s Teaching & Learning Center, centered around the exploration and implementation of non-proprietary, web technologies for educational purposes. We discussed important technologies, resources, and concepts such as WordPress, blogs, digital assignment hybridization, educational crowdsourcing, and online community engagement, as well…
“At The Edge of the Network: Undersea Cables and Deep Infrastructure”, a presentation by Nicole Starosielski for CUNY Graduate Center
At this CUNY Graduate Center event, digital humanist Nicole Starosielski discussed her recent book The Undersea Network and the GIS project that she developed alongside it. The project, Surfacing.in, comprises a network of annotated cable landing locations in a manner that allows a user to explore the way signals travel throughout the network of cables that run through and around the Pacific ocean. In addition to demonstrating the project, Starosielski discussed constructing network layers and edges, displaying cultural context in a dynamic mapping context, and the role that ecological identity can play in the development of information networks.
Protected: Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research with Sarah DeMott, New York University, February 11, 2016
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NYCDH Week: Pinterest
The Digital Humanitiesʼ resources and projects may be displayed and promoted to the wider community with the use of a wide variety of technological tools. Pinterest becomes a very convenient and accessible option because, on the one hand, it provides a series of “boards” that function as exhibition areas that support the display of projects, books, films, exhibits, conferences, lectures and competitions related to the DH field; and, on the other hand, it encourages the tagging of all these resources with “pins” in order to interconnect them with the wider world.
Ms. Whsyel expressed that Pinterest is an important technology tool for the DH community because it provides an opportunity to showcase exhibitions within a high traffic environment. Noreen Whyselʼs event Pinterest as Exhibition Gallery included a one-hour introductory explanation followed by a one-hour of workshop for all its participants.
Basics of Statistical Literacy: an Event Review (NYCC DH Week)
As part of the NYC Digital Humanities Week Spring 2016 festival, Dr. Irene Lopatovska lead a session titled, “Understanding Numbers: Basics of Statistical Literacy” at Pratt’s Manhattan campus. After an introduction to four types of numeric data scales, types of statistical analyses were reviewed in terms of their applicability to the numeric scale types. These analyses included measures of central tendency, dispersion, standard deviation, and more. Throughout the overview, examples were given in excel. Dr. Lopatovska also provided a brief overview of inferential statistics, which can be studied further in her class “Data Analysis and Publication”.
“Typography for [Digital] Humanists” Amy Papaelias, NYCDH Week 2016 Fordham University, February 12
“Typography for [Digital] Humanists” was a workshop lead by Amy Papaelias, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at SUNY New Paltz. Her workshop, presented during NYCDH Week 2016 at Fordham University, focused on basic typographic design principles and how they can be applied to digital humanities projects. The workshop also explored various typography resources available online, including Typecast.com, and the challenges and concerns digital humanists might face when trying to apply typographic principles to their projects. With the increase in research and projects, digital humanists will have to find ways to stand out, and typography seems to be a great place to start.
Digital Art History in Practice Lightning Talks Review
On February 10th, New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts held their Fine Arts Digital Art History Day as part of the 2016 DH Week. Presenters included Emily L. Spratt from Rutgers University, Louisa Wood Ruby, Samantha Deutch, and Ellen Prokop from the Frick. The day’s activities included a morning of engaging lightning talks with art historians and art research professional on their work that incorporates digital tools. The second half of the day featured a series of workshops on DH related tools such as CartoDB, Cytoscape, D3.js, and Zotero.
NYCDH Week’s Digital Art History in Practice: Digi Café, NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, 2/11/16
“Digi Café,” a workshop session of “Digital Art History in Practice” that took place at NYU’s Institute of Fine Art, embodied an “unconference” in that it was casual, welcoming to any and all professionals, and maintained an underlying theme of the importance of inter-disciplinary collaboration. At their own leisure, attendees were able to have intimate discussions with experts of open-source software (such as Zotero, CartoDB, D3.js, and Wordpress) as well as proponents of major DH projects–the PHAROS consortium project and “Mapping Video Art.” The PHAROS project, spearheaded by the Frick, aims to craft a tool that aggregates images of art across institutions within the consortium and “Mapping Video Art,” created by NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, is an interactive visualization of the movement of video art across space and time.
“Digital Art History in Practice” Panel, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, NYCDH Week, February 11, 2016
These presentations focused on a number of DH methods used in art-historical projects. Emily L. Spratt presented on digital reconstructions of world heritage sites after their destruction and the use of computers in analyzing aesthetic preferences in art. Dr. Louisa Wood Ruby presented a tool that uses linked data to facilitate access to images of art from different photo archives and a tool that mimics the functionality of a table for arranging and sorting images in the digital environment. Samantha Deutch’s presentation focused on data scraping tools. Ellen Prokop presented on the use of GIS technologies for art-historical research.