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 …

Digging Deep: Ecosystems, Institutions, and Processes for Critical Making

Room 5318.05 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

Advanced registration required for each session. Join Patrik Svensson, Matt Ratto, and Anne Balsamo for a highly anticipated day of sessions that explore the field of critical making in its institutional context. Sponsored by the Advanced Research Collaborative, with co-sponsorship from GC Digital Initiatives and Umeå University, the program includes two parts (12:30-2:30pm; 3-5:30pm). The …

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 both aesthetic theory and artificial intelligence. Through an investigation of the most fundamental questions computer scientists are confronted with in giving a machine the capacity …

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 …

Doc-a-thon for better docs!

Doc-a-thon March 6th, 5:00-10:00 PM Room 3317 The Digital Fellows, part of the Graduate Center Digital Initiatives at The Graduate Center, CUNY, will be hosting a Doc-a-thon to generate better …