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 …

“Digital Accessibility and the Making of a Meta Maker Movement,” A Talk by Dr. Joshua Miele

C198 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY

GC Digital Initiatives is excited to welcome Dr. Joshua Miele to The Graduate Center, CUNY, to speak on the topic of digital accessibility and maker culture. Dr. Miele is the Associate Director of Technology Research and Development, at the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Low Vision and Blindness. Please check back for more information shortly.

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 …

Cleaning data with OpenRefine

Room 6496 @ The GC 365 5th Ave., New York, NY

Data cleaning is an important step in any data-driven research project. Often data is harvested from diverse sources such as the web, databases, spreadsheets, text files, and countless other places. …

Visualization 3

Room 9206 @ The GC 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY

Interactive web based visualizations are becoming ever more integral to sharing research to the world at large and they are largely created using the D3.js library. In this workshop, we …

Ethics Beyond Compliance for Digital Research and Projects

Room 9207 @ The GC 365 5th Ave., New York, NY

What might an ethics beyond compliance look like? Perhaps even an activist ethics? This workshop will review the basics of ethical concerns unique to digital research and projects, focusing on …