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New Media Lab

THE NEW MEDIA LAB (NML) assists City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center faculty and doctoral students from a variety of academic disciplines to create multimedia projects based on their own scholarly research. Our goal is to integrate new media into traditional academic practice, challenging scholars to develop fresh questions in their respective fields using the tools of new technology. The NML is committed to a vision of new technology based on open access to ideas, tools, and resources.

With ongoing support from CUNY, the New Media Lab has become a dynamic environment in which projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Old York Library Foundation, and other private and public sources demonstrate new approaches and methods of merging digital media, scholarship, and learning.

Located in room 7388.01 at the CUNY Graduate Center and run under the auspices of the Center for Media and Learning / American Social History Project, NML researchers:

work across academic disciplines to produce scholarly digital media projects;

analyze Internet usage in the educational, social, and commercial sectors;

construct 3-D environments that explore ways of visualizing the arts, humanities, and sciences

digitally archive and analyze a wide range of data
participate in public programs that address the critical intersection of knowledge and technology

Admins:

Jonathan Senchyne \”Reading Surfaces & the Materialities of Communication\” Nov 3

  • Posted by Matthew K. Gold (he/him) on October 30, 2017 at 11:47 am

    Dear Colleagues,

    We\’re delighted to invite you to a lecture by Jonathan Senchyne (University of Wisconsin Madison), who will be speaking at the GC English program this Friday. Please come!!

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    Jonathan Senchyne, \”Type, Paper, Glass & Screws:Reading Surfaces & the Materialities of Communication\”
    Nov 3, 2017 — 4pm

    Jonathan Senchyne, University of Wisconsin-Madison & 2017-2018 Pine Tree Foundation Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Future of the Book in a Digital Age at The Graduate Center, CUNY

    The surfaces we read are meant to disappear behind the content they bear. But what, and who, is available to readers who pay attention to the material dimensions of the devices we read? Whether an eighteenth-century newspaper or a twenty-first century iPhone, the surfaces from which read are present to us, and they put our bodies in relation to others. In this talk, I read the print work of the eighteenth-century enslaved printer Primus Fowle (1700-1791) and the poetry of Foxconn laborer Xu Lizhi (1990-2014) and argue that they use non-alphabetic elements of texts like broken type or loose screws to orient readers to the many kinds of people and kinds of work that mediate texts across time, space, and archives. Co-sponsored by GC Digital Initiatives

    WHERE:
    The Graduate Center
    365 Fifth Avenue

    ROOM:
    4406: English Student Lounge

    WHEN:
    November 03, 2017: 4:00 PM

    CONTACT INFO:
    http://www.gc.cuny.edu/english

    ADMISSION:
    Free

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