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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:

The Book of Circles, Manuel Lima, 12/6, 3-4PM @GC CUNY

  • Posted by gcdigitalfellows on December 4, 2017 at 3:29 pm

    Please join us Wednesday for The Book of Circles by Manuel Lima. This event is open to the public and doesn’t require registration.

    Computer Science & Graduate Center Digital Initiatives Visualization Seminar

    The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge
    Manuel Lima

    Wednesday, Dec 6th 2017
    3:00pm – 4:00pm
    The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue
    Science Center (4th Floor)

    Join Manuel Lima for a fascinating tour through millennia of circular information design in architecture, urban planning, fine art, design, fashion, technology, religion, cartography, biology, astronomy and physics in a visual feast for infographics enthusiasts. From Venn diagrams and early celestial charts to the trefoil biohazard symbol and Target’s corporate logo, Lima provides a history of humanity’s long-lasting obsession with all things circular and a unique taxonomy of the many varieties of circle diagrams.
    https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/the-book-of-circles-visualizing-spheres-of-knowledge/

    A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, nominated by Creativity magazine as “one of the 50 most creative and influential minds of 2009”, Manuel Lima is a designer, researcher, teacher, founder of VisualComplexity.com – A visual exploration on mapping complex networks-and design lead at Google,

    His first book Visual Complexity: Mapping patterns of information has been translated into French, Chinese, and Japanese. His last book The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge covers over 800 years of human culture through the lens of the tree figure, from its entrenched roots in religious medieval exegesis to its contemporary, secular digital themes. His new book The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledg @bookofcircles is a tour through a millennia of circular information design.

    With more than twelve years of experience designing digital products, Manuel has worked for Codecademy, Microsoft, Nokia, R/GA, and Kontrapunkt. He holds a BFA in Industrial Design and a MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design. During the course of his MFA program, Manuel worked for Siemens Corporate Research Center, the American Museum of Moving Image, and Parsons Institute for Information Mapping in research projects for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

    365 Fifth Ave, New York City 10016 | Room 4319 | Phone: 212.817.8190 | Fax: 212.817.1510 | compsci@ gc.cuny.edu

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