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The CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (CUNY DHI), launched in Fall 2010, aims to build connections and community among those at CUNY who are applying digital technologies to scholarship and pedagogy in the humanities. All are welcome: faculty, students, and technologists, experienced practitioners and beginning DHers, enthusiasts and skeptics.

We meet regularly on- and offline to explore key topics in the Digital Humanities, and share our work, questions, and concerns. See our blog for more information on upcoming events (it’s also where we present our group’s work to a wider audience). Help edit the CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide, our first group project. And, of course, join the conversation on the Forum.

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Software Takes Command: conversation with Lev Manovich, Christiane Paul, Paul D. Miller and Katie To

  • Posted by Matthew K. Gold (he/him) on October 25, 2013 at 4:27 pm

    Hi All —

    GC Prof. Lev Manovich will take part in an event at Eyebeam that centers around his new book, Software Takes Command. Description below!!

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    Software Takes Command: conversation with Lev Manovich, Christiane Paul, Paul D. Miller and Katie Torn

    6 Nov 2013
    6:00PM-8:00PM
    Cost: Free
    Venue: Eyebeam

    Join Eyebeam for a discussion on software’s influence on design, art, data and culture. How do software tools shape the visual aesthetics of contemporary media and design? What motivated developers in the 1960s and ‘70s to create the concepts and techniques that now underlie contemporary applications like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Final Cut? What happens to the idea of a “medium” after previously media-specific tools have been simulated and extended into software?

    Lev Manovich (CUNY Graduate Center) will discuss key ideas from his new book Software Takes Command (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). Christiane Paul will talk about software art’s aesthetics and poetics, as well as its position within art history and the artworld at large. Paul D. Miller (D.J. Spooky) will present his forthcoming book The Imaginary App – an anthology of art and scholarship on app-computing co-authored by Svitlana Matviyenko. Artist and Eyebeam Fellow Katie Torn will talk about her her transition from traditional art and illustration to working in a complete 3D Maya-generated environment. This talk is held in tandem with Katie Torn’s exhibit Dream House, currently on view in the Eyebeam Storefront.

    http://eyebeam.org/events/software-takes-command-conversation-with-lev-manovich-christiane-paul-paul-d-miller-and-katie

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