The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase

Room 9205 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

The Digital GC: Year-End Showcase Please join us on May 19th 2015 for a special event at the Graduate Center showcasing the innovative and diverse digital projects initiated during the 2014-2015 academic year! Presentations will be given by: the Digital Praxis Seminar, the GC Digital Fellows, Provost’s Digital Innovation Grantees, the New Media Lab, the …

Free

Futures Initiative Event: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education

The Graduate Center, CUNY, Library, Alumni Lounge, and Segal Theatre

May 22: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education, Exhibit of the CUNY Map of NYC, Reception, and Recognition Ceremony for all Futures Initiative Scholars, Evening, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Library, Alumni Lounge, and Segal Theatre  Please visit the Futures Initiative website for more information.

CUNY DHI: Building a Digital Humanities Community at the City University of New York

Room C197 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

#cunydhi We invite you to The Graduate Center for this CUNY-wide event, which will a feature a series of lightning talks on current and recent digital humanities work at our institutions. To see our full line-up of more than twenty-one undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff across the CUNY campuses, please visit the CUNY …

“TBD:” A Talk by Professor Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

The Skylight Room @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

Increasingly, it would seem, the future is already known, determined by algorithms that analyze, predict and pre-empt actions.  Privacy is dead, and so is consent, because regardless of our own actions, we are betrayed by people “like us.”  To what extent, though, does this situation offer new possibilities for action and modes of identification?  This …

The Art of Seeing: Aesthetics at the Intersection of Art and Science

Room C197 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

In this two-part presentation, art historian Emily L. Spratt and computer scientist Ahmed Elgammal explore the uses of vision technology for the analysis of art and its philosophical implications for …

Digital Poetics: A Roundtable

Room 4406 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

This panel will place in conversation an array of scholars, artists, poets, and archivists from the New York City area to discuss the intersection between the poetic and the digital …

Citizen Cartography @NYPL: Map Warper Workshop at the GC

Room C203 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

The New York Public Library’s Map Warper is a free online crowdsourcing tool that enables librarians and the general public to align digital images of historical maps with today’s map …