ITP Workshop: Photoshop

Photoshop| April 29, 4:15 to 6:15 | Room TBD | Sissi Liu 劉思 Participants will learn basic skills such as understanding and adjusting the histogram, tonal scale, refining colors with hue/saturation, changing fill and opacity.  Then we will delve into more advanced skills such as layering and collage, burning and dodging, creating effects with blur gallery. Students …

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Futures Initiative Event: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education

Room 9206, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, United States

May 5: Mapping the Futures of Higher Education, Open Class Session and Reception, Presentations of Works-in-Progress, Recap, and Interactive Session–Bring Your Markers!, 5-8pm, The Graduate Center, CUNY, William Kelly Skylight Conference Room Please visit the Futures Initiative website for more information.

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 …

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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.

“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

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 in contemporary creative and critical practice. We will discuss digital approaches to poetic composition, poetic approaches to digital work, archival considerations for electronic poetry, the …