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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:

Poetic Computation: a Talk with Taeyoon Choi, Monday, Oct 29, 6:30 PM

  • Posted by gcdigitalfellows on October 15, 2018 at 4:48 pm

    Monday, October 29, 6:30pm-8:00pm, Room 9204

    Click here to Register

    Poetic Computation: a Talk with Taeyoon Choi

    This talk with Taeyoon Choi considers the intersection between computation and poetics, and code and care. Computation is poetic when technology is used for critical thinking and aesthetic inquiry – a space where logic meets electricity (hardware), math meets language (software) and analytical thinking meets creative experimentation. The School for Poetic Computation approaches writing code like creative writing — focusing on the mechanics of programming, the demystification of tools, and hacking the conventions of art-making with computation.

    In 2018, Choi is working on “The Distributed Web of Care” – an initiative focusing on distribution instead of decentralization. The initiative prioritizes care instead of control. Care is a soft sense of responsibility and accountability, especially important in considering inclusion, accessibility and disability. The project asks – Can we code to care, and can we code carefully? Let’s think about care instead of control. Let’s think about person instead of user. Let’s try and unlearn instead of machine learn.

     

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