For those of us who have followed stories and theories of AI and its newer cousin ‘machine learning’ since the late 1960s, the following video clip from a Charlie Rose show is a breath of refreshing reframing.  It features Andrew Ross Sorkin, Ray Kelly and Lucy Suchman, and does a damn fine job of questioning […]

It has come down to the wire–not the TV show but the reality of CUNY’s funding through a Maintenance of Effort Bill (MOE) that many of you signed post cards to urge Cuomo to sign the simple bill.  It sits on his desk.  Take another crack at it please and follow the link below to […]

Please join us:  (the following was sent by Andrea Vasquez, Managing Director, of the Grad Center’s New Media Lab): We hope you can join us for a “screening” and roundtable discussion on the CUNY Digital History Archive, community archiving, and the challenges of producing such a project. It’s at the CUNY IT conference at John […]

Paris Climate Talks and New York City

The climate justice movement is on a roll. We were so excited to hear that people power finally beat back the Keystone XL Pipeline last week — but here at Bronx Climate Justice North we’re not sitting back to relax! Can you join us for a special public forum tomorrow about the future of the […]

This Week, on Thurs., Nov. 12, students across the country are organizing the #MillionStudentMarch, a day of coordinated local actions on hundreds of campuses. The #MillionStudentMarch platform calls for tuition-free public college, a cancellation of all student debt, and a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers. Actions are being organized by students at BMCC, […]

Intro to MALS: New Media seminar visited the “Experiencing the Interface” interactive/touch and feel exhibit at Bard Graduate Center.  Its a small room, with powerful reminders about the technologies we have used in the last 40 years, including keyboards, mobile phones, game boys and early TRS and Apple computers.  Kimon Kerimedas, GC PhD graduate curated […]

The Interface Experience: an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center 18 W 86th St is a first of its kind in computer history. Touch and feel and experience the different interfaces. Developed and curated by a GC former student Kimon Keramidas. See it!

(New) Public Goods: Design, Aesthetics and Politics. Oct, 3 @ 9:30am Parsons the New School for Design and the School of Design Strategies invites you to the 2013 Stephan Weiss Lecture Series: (New) Public Goods: Design, Aesthetics and Politics A conversation curated by Eduardo Staszowski, Vyjayanthi Rao, Scott Brown and Virginia Tassinari. Thursday, October 3 […]