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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:

Whose Knowledge is it Anyway? Innovations in Traditional Knowledge Protection

  • Thursday, March 3, 2016
    6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
    Faculty Study, Vanderbilt Hall
    40 Washington Square South

    Whose Knowledge Is It Anyway? will focus on the project entitled Local Contexts and its application from both tribal and institutional perspectives. Professor Jason Schultz (Professor of Clinical Law) NYU School of Law, will moderate the discussion.

    Professor Jane Anderson (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Museum Studies, NYU) will introduce Local Contexts (www.localcontexts.org), an online platform that was developed to address the intellectual property needs of Native, First Nations, Aboriginal and Indigenous peoples in relation to the extensive collections of cultural heritage materials currently held within museums, archives, libraries and private collections. This project addresses the unique problem of public domain materials and third party owned content that is divorced from local communities and missing important information about use and circulation. One of the key devices for engaging this curatorial challenge is the suite of Traditional Knowledge (TK) Labels.

    Mr. James Eric Francis, Sr. (Director/Tribal Historian Historic and Cultural Preservation Department at the Penobscot Nation, Maine) will detail some of the IP challenges that his community faces and how Local Contexts supports resolving them.

    Dr. Elizabeth Peterson (Director of American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress) will discuss a pilot project developing a unique set of TK Labels in collaboration with the Passamaquoddy Nation for the collection of 1890 sound recordings made by Jesse Fewkes – the first ethnographic sound recordings ever made.

    A wine and cheese reception will follow at 7:15 PM. RSVP to [email protected]

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