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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

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Special Topics in Film History graduate class

  • Posted by Lisa Marie Rhody on November 20, 2017 at 12:44 am

    Dear all,

    Please see the note below from Alex Juhasz about a course she is teaching next semester. There is also an attached course description.

    Best wishes,

    Lisa

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    Hi colleagues:

    Still not certain how or even if people share their grad classes within and across CUNY but this is a pretty special one, building out from the GC Center for the Humanities working group: VHS Archives.
    The class will be co-taught by Jenn McCoy from the Art Dept at Brooklyn College and me, Screen Studies at Brooklyn College.

    7032G: Special Topics in Film History

    VHS Archives considers how to store, transfer, share, research, and reactivate media collections facing obsolescence Theories and practices of media and digital archives and queer and feminist media will undergird close interaction with 12 VHS AIDS activist videotapes focusing on women and sexuality, a digitized corpus from which students will research and build new resources, including original interviews, writing about historical context, media analysis, community-based and interactive media programming, and creative praxis.

    It will also have MFA students from PIMA (Performance, and Interactive Media Arts): students will enroll as a PIMA class as well.
    It will take place at Feirstein School of Cinema at Steiner Studios on Thursday afternoons.
    Could you all pass on the word to potential interested students at the GC or other CUNY campuses working on these topics?
    The class will have a community-based component working with Visual AIDS and the AIDS activist group Vocal NY.

    Alex

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