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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 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 …

“At the Edge of the Network: Undersea Cables and Deep Infrastructure,” A Talk by Professor Nicole Starosielski

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

Over 99% of transoceanic data traffic is carried across the oceans by undersea cables—these technologies comprise the backbone of the global internet. This presentation will focus on Surfacing, a digital map that enables users to traverse the social worlds of the cable system and the unseen cultural formations that sustain everyday internet connections. Surfacing is …

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 through a process called georectification, or “warping” maps. As part of NYPL’s ongoing commitment to creating new publicly available resources and building new platforms for …

“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 docs! When learning a new software tool, programming language or library, we all go straight to the tutorials and other documentation. As the first point …

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. Before it is cleaned, “messy” data can suffer from a host of problems, including inconsistent encodings, formats, and missing values to name just a few. …

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 learn about the d3 data model and its conceptualization of graphics. We will then learn how to build and customize some simple graphs in D3.js. …