We’ve wrapped up another semester of “Archives, Libraries + Databases” graduate seminar. Once again, we visited the NYC Municipal Archives, the Morgan Library, the Reanimation Library, and the New School Archives — and this year we added a tour of…
Its no mystery that there is such a profound environmental impact on our planet when it comes to having 24/7 access to our stuff. Glanz’s sobering article paints a bleak picture of the “dirty secret” that the information age is costing…
In regards to e-book publishing, digital text, interactive modalities, etc – I wanted to share about my brother Brad Neuberg’s work (at the company Inkling) as one of the lead programmers, developers, and thought leaders in e-book technology. He writes…
I’d love to hear feedback from you guys on this. Something I might (would like to) take forward. If you want to keep in touch as I go off to Pratt next semester, you can follow me on Twitter (@marleewalters)…
I wanted to share this digital humanities project from Yale University that uses Vogue Magazine’s Archive in an interesting way. Read more here.
as promised, we finally got all of the clearances to post the sessions and forums pertaining to Theaster Gates’ residency. Here is a short Highlight clip: http://youtu.be/xCnDtYMuAUw And here are the remaining YouTube links: Session 1 – http://youtu.be/ZtQVNsy2630 Session 2 –…
Last Friday Ben Fino-Radin, digital repository manager at the Museum of Modern Art; and Lori Emerson, assistant professor of English and director of the Media Archaeology Lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder, convened at NYU to discuss “New |…
Some of the database art / visualization projects we didn’t get to explore in class: Database Cinema Jon Witney: Catalog, 1961 Created by “manipulating basic mathematical functions” to create “databases of effects” Peter Greenaway, Prospero’s Books Lev Manovich, Soft Cinema,…
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