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Michael Branson Smith (he/him/his)

MBS is an Associate Professor of Communications Technology at York College

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    Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center

    GCDI Summer Python Workshop GC Digital Initiatives is offering a 4-week Summer Python Intensive for Graduate Center students, faculty, and researchers interested in […]

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    Ryan Seslow edited the blog post Building the Tesseract: The Archive Learns to Search, See, and Talk Back

    Building the Tesseract: The Archive Learns to Search, See, and Talk Back Sharing this with the NET-ART and CUNY Commons community because, underneath the build, it is a teaching question: what becomes possible when […]

    1 week, 6 days ago
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    Net-Art

    Ryan Seslow edited the blog post Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1

    Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1 Building the Tesseract: What Happens When an Archive Learns to Read Itself? Part 1 6/10/26 Over the past week I’ve been working on […]

    3 weeks, 5 days ago
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    Ryan Seslow edited the blog post NET-ART OS: An Experiment in Archive Discovery

    NET-ART OS: An Experiment in Archive Discovery NET-ART OS: An Experiment in Archive Discovery 6-5-2026 Since 2017, the NET-ART website here on the CUNY Academic Commons has grown into a […]

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    Ryan Seslow edited the blog post NET-ART Required Readings - Full Update

    NET-ART Required Readings – Full Update Required Reading and Resource Familiarity Updated June 5th 2026 – (the page itself is here) Welcome back to yet another major update to the […]

    1 month ago
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    NET-ART

    The Ultimate Free Creative Technology Stack (2026 Edition) The Ultimate Free Creative Technology Stack (2026 Edition) Welcome back creators, artists, students, designers, educators, and digital […]

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    Net-Art

    Ryan Seslow edited the blog post The Ultimate Free Creative Technology Stack (2026 Edition)

    The Ultimate Free Creative Technology Stack (2026 Edition) The Ultimate Free Creative Technology Stack (2026 Edition) Welcome back creators, artists, students, designers, educators, and digital […]

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    Ryan Seslow wrote a new blog post RSMAD Reconstruction Series No. 1

    RSMAD Reconstruction Series No. 1 RSMAD Reconstruction Series No. 1 – Reconstructed Spatial Archive: 2013–2026 Originally created in my studio environment in 2013, these l […]

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    Ryan Seslow edited the blog post Building a Semantic AI Archive System for a 20-Year WordPress Art Archive

    Building a Semantic AI Archive System for a 20-Year WordPress Art Archive AREMES HQ, Brooklyn, May 25th 2026 Today I spent nearly an entire day inside Terminal on my macOS building an experimental semantic archive […]

    1 month, 1 week ago
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    Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center

    Using Omeka Omeka is an open-source publishing platform used for libraries, archives, and museums. It can be used to showcase digital collections: cultural […]

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    Ryan Seslow wrote a new blog post NET-ART Suggested Syllabus 2026 Revision

    NET-ART Suggested Syllabus 2026 Revision A syllabus written in 2017 cannot describe a practice in 2026. The web reads itself now. AI sits in the studio. Agents move through the network […]

    1 month, 3 weeks ago
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    Ryan Seslow edited the blog post How Peekable Got Built

    How Peekable Got Built It started with a simple question: where are all my Adobe Dimension files? I have been making work digitally for over three decades, across a […]

    1 month, 3 weeks ago
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    NET-ART

    Open Met Museum: Agent-Mediated Cultural Remixing in One Afternoon It started with a simple question. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a public API on GitHub, and in February of 2026 the Met shared that they […]

    1 month, 3 weeks ago
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    Ryan Seslow wrote a new blog post Open Met Museum: Agent-Mediated Cultural Remixing in One Afternoon

    Open Met Museum: Agent-Mediated Cultural Remixing in One Afternoon It started with a simple question. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a public API on GitHub, and in February of 2026 the Met shared that they […]

    1 month, 3 weeks ago
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    Ryan Seslow edited the blog post VR Studio Transformation

    VR Studio Transformation Expanding Painting into Mixed Reality Environments Over the past several days I have been transforming my studio into a growing mixed reality […]

    1 month, 3 weeks ago
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    Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center

    Let’s Archive It! Event Recap In April, the Digital Fellows were delighted to host the event “Let’s Archive It,” which brought together three archivists from across the CUNY […]

    1 month, 4 weeks ago
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    Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center

    Update from the Digital Scholarship Lab: Visit our Data Lab Every spring semester, the digital fellows discuss their observations and findings from the fall semester about the Graduate Center’s s […]

    2 months ago
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    Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center

    Breaking Tableau Out of the Boardroom If you’ve ever loaded a research dataset into Tableau, you’ve probably been a bit intimidated. The interface templates are set up to analyze thi […]

    2 months, 1 week ago
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    Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center

    Vibe Coding My Way Out of a Teaching Problem This post is written by guest contributor Nicole Walker.  In Base44’s recent Super Bowl advertisement, office workers who have never coded be […]

    2 months, 2 weeks ago
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    Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center

    When AI Makes Us More Active, We Risk Being Less Wise What generative AI is changing is not just what we produce, but how we behave. When I began studying how workers were using generative AI on […]

    2 months, 3 weeks ago
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