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Produce and Perpendicularity.

Proponents of vertical farming ask us to consider a completely different direction for the future of food production. I recently perused these photos on the topic of vertical farming. Interestingly, the topic reminded me that creative solutions often arise when our thoughts, ideas, habits and behaviors reach in a completely different direction than what we expect. [...]

Digital Storytelling: Final Cut vs MovieMaker

I am the New Media Consultant a new multi-media musical Talking to Devon. This means I either create, advise and/or oversee the choices and implementation for web hosting and web-design, signature image, internet-based connectivity and social media presence , and most exciting for me…digital storytelling! This is a hat with many brims, and one that [...]

WordPress and Innovation

The other day I wrote a blog on the CUNY Commons about WordPress and its role within the New Media Lab which prompted some interesting discussion with Kimon Keramidas of the Bard Graduate Center’s Digital Media Lab. At the New Media Lab, we’re currently working on developing a better way of supporting students in the way [...]

OJS Upgrade

For sometime now, the latest stable version of Open Journal System is 2.3.5. The current OJS installation is 2.1.x, and we should upgrade to the newest release to take advantage of the new features it has, and also because it includes security improvements (outdated software is always a potential risk in a server, as attackers [...]

Spring Concert by the CUNY Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, Friday at 7pm.

Dear all, I would like to invite you to Spring Concert of the CUNY Middle Eastern Music Ensemble at the Elebash Recital Hall, 1st floor at The Graduate Center, on Friday at 7pm. I look forward to seeing you all there. Thanks, Ozan. The CUNY Middle Eastern Music Ensemble was established in 2008 under the [...]

Congratulations André!

The New Media Lab is excited to congratulate André Pitanga on being honored by the Graduate Center and his peers for some of the outstanding work that he does on a daily basis. He is a big part of what makes the New Media Lab site work behind the scenes and we want to thank him for [...]

Final Meeting of Spring ’11

This Thursday in the New Media Lab, please join us for our final meeting of the semester at 1:00 pm! We will spend some time getting to know some of the new students involved with the lab. We will also talk about our latest ASHP project, an Omekadatabase called HERB. We hope you can make it and join [...]

New Media Lab April Meeting

Last reminder of the upcoming NML general meeting this Wednesday 4/6 at 1pm in the lab. Luke Waltzer and Mikhail Gershovich of Baruch’s Schwartz Communications Institute will be presenting. They’ll be talking about: VOCAT, a highly flexible and extensible, open-source web application designed to help students become confident, dynamic public speakers… and Blogs@Baruch, an online publishing [...]

Participatory Design workshop -Thurs. 3-24

What is Participatory Design? How can you use it in your project (up to you, but I bet you could)? Does it count as research ? (yes) A short seminar/workshop using your own projects as possible participatory injection sites; Thursday 3/24 in the New Media Lab 1:30-3 Please let me know if you can make [...]

Bard Graduate Ctr event on mapping new media 3-25

NMLers: Many of you are working with mapping your research so thought you might be interested in this: The Bard Graduate Center will be holding a symposium on Mapping New Media on Friday, March 25, 2011 from 1:00 to 5:00pm. Maps are a wonderful metaphor for the new media world. But even more, digital mapping [...]