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  • A MBS Special Presentation

    Last week I had the pleasure of being a visiting artist at the University of Mary Washington, hosted by Jim Groom and Zach Walen for their Console Living Room exhibit on campus. Their installation revisits the hub of family entertainment as you might have found it in a household of the early 1980s. The wood paneling…

  • Projects

    WEB DEV Word Diversity in Top American Films Word counts in American film dialogue using a dataset built from SRT files in the OpenSubtitles repository.  Data Viz and Repo OERxDomains21 Conference Design and frontend development of online conference site and presentation player. ALT Online Conference Application The Reclaim Roadshow Online Workshop Application with a guide, pre-programmed ‘live’…

  • Concrete to Data Breakout!

    A couple of weeks ago I was able to attend the opening of Concrete to Data, an exhibition currently open at the Steinberg Museum of Art. The show is a culmination of a two year effort by Ryan Seslow to bring together graffiti writers, street artists, photographers, and digital artists to reflect on past and current practices. Over…

  • Personal collections become public archives

    creative commons licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Ludovico Sinz [Cane Rosso (busy!)] The genre geek that I am, I used to frequent Star Trek and Comic Con conventions in the early 1990s. I love the fandom that exists in cosplay or the stockpiling of toys/action cards – but by far my favorite…

  • Advice from my students on nurturing work

    creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-ND ) flickr photo shared by Hypercoregz Recently the Communications Technology program has been growing quite a bit, so much so that I’ve been able to offer and teach our portfolio course, CT 399, for upper level majors every fall and spring semester. The course is a single credit two hour…

  • Hooker Light Ray Gun, 1942

    I caught on to this daily create a few days ago which asks you to search Google’s database of U.S. patents, find an interesting image and turn it into a vintage blueprint. Love it! I’ve been working on an old piece of work (—->) so I had ray guns on my mind. Searching for the specific…

  • Let ‘Em Breathe Fire

    Next Monday I’m really excited to start teaching with Ryan Seslow for the first time. I’ve been lucky to work with Ryan on a bunch of projects, recently my favorites being GIFFight and Animating Transit. We’re going to combine two sections of CT 101 Digital Storytelling, which is inspired and still heavily influenced by the…

  • Rocketing Off to Connected Courses

    I introduced the Connected Courses open course to two colleagues of mine at York College in the Educational Technology department and they’re game to follow along and even blog! So I’m going to jump in as well. It’s great to see a few familiar faces among the course instructors, but I’m more interested to hear ideas from…

  • Presentations/Panels

    2017 Knowledge Without Walls: The ethos of openness in research and teaching, ACERT, Hunter College Center for Teaching and Learning, April 24, 2017. A presentation on my work with cultural institutions’ open access archives to create animated GIFs as well as host events with the public to do the same. 2016 New Connections and Possibilities with the CUNY…

  • Animating Transit

    Platform – Creative Musings on Mass Transit is an exhibition series created by The Transit Museum which invites artists, writers, and performers to reflect/respond to NYC transit and the innumerable emotions and stories that arise when New Yorkers think about the subway. If you’re not from NYC, one way you might be able to appreciate…