It’s a tricky question, building a non-digital library on digital themes. We could use some help. You’ve read in earlier posts about our previous efforts to think BIG about how …
Author: Sam O'Hana
Sam is a doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, researching creative lifespans. He previously worked in public programming at Howl! Arts and the Bowery Poetry Club.
Downtime is the Best Cure for Downtime
During nearly every software project or coding effort I have ever undertaken there has usually been at least one moment of ‘downtime’ – an interminable period during which the machine …
The lost art of spaghetti
When I was five years old I took apart an old rotary telephone. Actually I didn’t just take it apart – I dismantled it entirely. My youthful fingers, newly skilled …
Digital Clutter (or why Inbox Zero is not a goal)
These days there’s a cloud of excess digital data hovering around my work–not just extra words I’ve typed but all the files I’ve collected, the images I might use for …
March 12 Workshop: Research Management: How to Keep Your Sources and Your Sanity
Please join us for our latest workshop of the Spring 2013 term: Research Management: How to Keep Your Sources and Your Sanity March 12, 2013 – 6:30-8:30pm; Room C196.01 In …
Microblogging the Drama
This semester, three Graduate Center colleagues are engaged in a pedagogical experiment with multiple Acting classes, using Twitter. (Skeptics, stay with me!) Hoping to prompt class discussion between CUNY colleges, …
Digital Dissertations: 3 issues
Recently a group of GC faculty and students from the New Media Lab and Digital Fellows group got together to brainstorm about digital dissertations. The idea of a digital dissertation …
Expertise
What makes a digital humanities expert? I’m at a point in my research wherein I can understand what makes a digital project tick, but am not necessarily able to write …
JustPublics@365 Announces MediaCamp
The MediaCamp (January Academy) is a partnership between JustPublics@365 and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, to offer skills-building workshops for intellectuals who want to …
Enter Here
My entry into the Fellows program comes after several years of teaching digital media design, working in the area of academic technology, and exploring as an artist the multitude of …
