Personal Bio & Contribution Statement

By Antonios Liamis | Published: February 25, 2019

Personal Bio

Antonios Liamis is an employee of the Graduate Center (City University of New York) where he works in Digital Disability Student Services Dept. He is also an outsourcing Journalist working in The National Herald Newspaper. He recently attended the M.A. program in Digital Humanities in GC. Previously, having 15 works experience worked as a Senior UI/UX Designer in Digital Media and Communication market, as a Front End Developer in E-commerce Platforms, as an Art and Photography Director in fashion magazines in Europe and also in Image Archive license Agencies.
He earned his first B.A in Graphic Arts and Technology in Technological Institute of Athens and his second one in European Studies in Culture and Humanities, a program of Hellenic Open University. Being either in the form of continuing education in many educational institutions or in more intensive time training in the form of certificates, he had to respond to the requirements of my career and to train in the field. His latest extended certificated training was in Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York as a UX Designer.
In the educational field he used to teach the German language in different educational centers in Athens-Greece. Being a New York resident for the last few years he recently participated in a volunteer-led effort to create educational programs that highlight bilingualism at the early levels of language at New York public schools. The Initiative is in its latest stages and has a very successful outlook because of the dedicated work they have put in as volunteers.

Contribution Statement

On Immigrant Newspapers project I’m helping gathering lists of existing databases for our collection of publications, trying to extract highlighted and useful data through online collections and archives. I also contribute by setting up and visualize a layout website project through back-end and front end development work, through UX wireframing ,research and design process. As a team our communication in Slack seems working perfect, since each member of the group has a main focus. Our primary goal is to discover and edit as much as information of data as possible, as this step will determine the next stages of the project.

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Personal Bio and Statement of Contribution

By Camilla Skoglie | Published: February 25, 2019

Personal Bio

Camilla holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oslo with a major in Comparative Religion. She specialized in New Religious Movements because she is intrigued with how people design and practice their religiosity in the modern world.

She moved to New York 2007 to go to acting school and has since graduating from the Stella Adler Studio of Acting been working as a freelance actress on various stages across New York City. After having spent the past eight years living the artist life, she is back in school, pursuing a degree in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Data Visualization at the CUNY Graduate Center. In the future she hopes to be telling the stories of data, as well as be telling stories on the stage.

Statement of Contribution

One of my goals for this project is to learn how to build and develop a digital humanities project from the ground up and I am excited to have the chance to bring this project to life. For the Lost Art Collective, I will act as a researcher and a database developer, building a digital catalog of artwork items using Omeka. I will also be creating visualizations through Neatline, a GIS based mapping software built into Omeka. Further into the project I will be designing and setting up a website for the project as part of our end product.

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Bio and Contributions – Natasha Ochshorn

By Natasha Ochshorn | Published: February 25, 2019

Bio

Natasha Ochshorn is a MALS student in her final semester interested in internet affect and aesthetics. She is currently working on her capstone project, ExistentialMD.com: a website in which users are asked to locate the site of pain in their bodies, structurally mimicking WebMD’s symptom checker, and are lead to short essays that locate the body as a site of emotionality. Previously, she has worked as an assistant and social media manager for bestselling author Lauren Oliver, and an occasional listicle writer for BNTeen.

Contributions

For TRIKE I will be contributing to the content development team, as well as taking on the role of social media manager. For the content team, my roles will involve creating and transforming one example data set (in collaboration with another team member), writing copy for the website, outreach materials, and other public-facing documents.

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Personal Bio and Contribution Statement

By Jennifer Cheng | Published: February 25, 2019

Personal bio:

Jennifer Cheng is a student in the M.A. program in Digital Humanities at the Graduate Center at CUNY. She is the associate editor of Voices of NY, an online publication of the Center for Community and Ethnic Media at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Her research interests include data visualization and analysis.

Contribution statement:

For our project on immigrant newspapers, I have helped set up the database for our collection of publications and gathered a listing of existing databases, books and organizations relevant for the data collection process. I have been looking at online collections and archives as well as data journalism projects for layout inspiration, and hope to build visualizations that present immigration patterns evident through the data.

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Personal Bio and Contributions

By Kiana Carrington | Published: February 24, 2019

Kiana Carrington is a recent graduate of CUNY Hunter College where she studied Emerging Media. She has worked with many arts organizations throughout New York City including BRIC, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and The Museum of Arts and Design. The interdisciplinary nature of her degree has allowed her to explore her interests in the intersections of art and technology. Her work as a media maker ranges from computer games and websites to physical interactive pieces. She hopes to use these skills in the future to help design exhibition spaces and enhance live performance venues.

Contributions

For the Freedom Dreaming: A Call to Imagine project I am working on content creation for the website, social media and research. My main tasks are creating boiler plate language for our site and social media platforms to present a coherent, singular voice across the media we use to engage our audience. In addition, I will be researching the resources we want to share with users including zines, contact information for local organizations, and free online texts. In the early stages my focus is on what we want to say, and how as well as thinking through how users will interact with what we produce.

 

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Personal Bio and Contribution Statement: Anthony Wheeler

By Anthony Wheeler (he/him) | Published: February 24, 2019

Personal Bio:

Anthony Wheeler is an employee of The Graduate Center (City Univerity of New York) where he works as a Program Assistant for the M.A. program in Digital Humanities and M.S. program in Data Analysis & Visualization. He is a HASTAC Scholars Fellow, where he is currently pursuing work centered around identity, games studies, and advocating for students of color and students with disabilities. He also has recently joined the Humanities department at LaGuardia Community College as an Adjunct, where he teaches a Public Speaking course within the Communication Studies major.

Wheeler received his A.S. degree in Adolescence Education & English from Dutchess Community College and his B.S. degree in Adolescence Education & English from the State University of New York at New Paltz. He is currently pursuing his M.A. degree in Digital Humanities as well as an Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate at The Graduate Center, where his concentration is in digital pedagogy and technology’s use to increase equity amongst students in the classroom.

Contribution Statement:

Wheeler’s contributions to the  Freedom Dreaming: A Call to Imagine project include (but are not limited to)  social media network analysis, data collection, outreach, and helping to foster some aspects of social media through said results of the analysis. He was selected for this role due to some prior knowledge of network analysis and his ability to more conveniently consult with Agustin Indaco on social media network analyzing thanks to his position at The Graduate Center. Also, thanks to his position as an adjunct at an institution that has an incredible sense of pride in its diverse student body, he is in a good place to conduct outreach to students and faculty who will be able to contribute to the Freedom Dreaming project.

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Carolyn A. McDonough — Personal Bio + Contribution Statement

By Carolyn A. McDonough | Published: February 24, 2019

Personal Bio

 

 

Carolyn is a graduate student in the MA in Digital Humanities (first cohort) and the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Programs.

 

She holds her BA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Vassar College and her first MA in Media Studies from The New School. Examples of Carolyn’s interdisciplinary academic work can be found in her interactive papers The Digital Aura: Selfie & Renaissance Gaze Shift , Savage Beauty: Alexander McQueen and her ITP Independent Study project, Points of Reference, which resides on The CUNY Academic Commons as a prototype digital blog tool at Moments+Things (to be transferred to Points of Reference.)

Carolyn has studied and researched at the University of Florence, Italy, and is the recipient of a post-grad Fellowship to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, where she was promoted to Chief Student Intern. In 2014, she received a scholarship from the Museum of Modern Art and Credly toward the online course CATALYSTS: Artists Creating with Sound, Video + Time for which she was awarded a first-ever digital badge from MoMA. Additionally, she has many audio production and performance credits in webcasts, soundscape design, and commercial broadcasts.

Contribution Statement

In the Lost Art Collective group project, I look forward to continuing to employ my academic interest in digital pedagogical tools, especially as I’m on the digital pedagogy track within the MA in DH Program, and to offer my curatorial expertise/museum experience, as well as my professional contacts in these areas and within the GC. I’m happy to lend my digital media production skill set wherever/whenever the LAC group project requires. I will effort toward sharpening my existing knowledge of Omeka in continuing the set-up required for the catalogue/database of our dataset and help present a well-executed project group presentation at the GCDI. I will execute my contribution via the following roles:

Project Plan Co-Author & Editor

Omeka set-up server to run Neatline; Developer/data updates

Curator/Field Researcher (“field research” is defined as visits to museums, such as the Met on Feb. 15, where I identified an African artifact comparable to one in our dataset).

Outreach/Liaison with museums and cultural institutions, the New Media Lab, CUNY and GC DH-related resources (arranging and taking meetings and initiating/facilitating communications with outside specialists, as needed).

Assist the Project Originator in attempts to access the French report’s “raw data”

Translator of the French report from French to English for the group and History/Art History Specialist/Consultant

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Personal Bio & Contribution Statement

By Rob Garfield | Published: February 24, 2019

Personal Bio

Rob has over 15 years experience working in games/simulations, global learning and education technologies at Queens College, Columbia University, Full Sail University and in the game/simulation industry.

As a Course Director at Full Sail University, Rob taught in the thesis class of the Game Development program, evolving curricula for a new Bachelor of Science track as well as helping to transform the classroom into a professionally modeled “Gaming Studio” for the production of student games.

In his simulation production work, where he specialized in artificial intelligence programming and gameplay design, Rob was involved in the development of multi-user 3D environments for military training and experimentation. Some of his clients included DARPA and the West Point Military Academy.

At the Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, Rob deepened his exploration of the educational possibilities of simulations and global collaborative technologies through his work on social science-based simulations for education and new models of distance learning on the Global scale. Over the course of his work at Columbia and Queens College, he has developed dozens of pedagogical and technological interventions to target specific teaching and learning challenges and coordinated with numerous departments to further the causes of active and experiential education.

Before taking the plunge into the worlds of education and real-time applications, Rob spent some years in publishing in New York for such diverse publications as Grand Street, Bomb and Spy as well as pursuing his own career as a poet, for which studying writing with Allen Ginsberg at Brooklyn College was a highlight. He “grew up” technologically as a tools developer and technical writer for Chase Manhattan Bank and Citibank in the mid to late 1990s.

Contribution Statement

On Project TRIKE, I am responsible for technical development, which includes development, deployment and archiving of the project website, establishing naming, storage and archiving standards for our data, overseeing deployments to GitHub, and researching and consulting on technology used for the transformation and analysis of our data sets.  Further, I will be developing my own TRIKE data set with all of its attendant critique, commentary, transformations and analysis.  However, my content focus will be ensuring that each of our primary content contributors has all she needs — in terms of technical support — to deliver our promised trio of finished sets.

I also represent the pedagogical perspective in TRIKE, though many of us share this perspective.  It is my responsibility to make sure that our products are useful in a classroom context.

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Personal Bio and Contribution Statement: Hannah House

By Hannah House | Published: February 24, 2019

Bio

Hannah is used to her bio being in the third person, so that is how she is writing this post.

Hannah I. House is a student in the MA in Digital Humanities program at the Graduate Center at CUNY. She has extensive experience with project management, production, and multichannel implementation gained over a nearly twenty-year career in advertising and branding. Hannah is currently Director of Implementation for the New York City office of Landor, a prestigious multinational branding firm, where she spearheads visual identity rollouts and digital initiatives and is a strong champion for accessibility in design. Her research interests include digital tools and pedagogy, media and identity, and the sinister and hidden recapitulation of existing power structures through putatively neutral data and its applications in AI.

Contribution statement

For Project TRIKE, Hannah’s primary contributions to date have been overarching project management activities, including testing various project management tools, setting up Slack with some integrations, drafting detailed work plans, and coordinating and running a very productive group meeting today (she runs meetings like a drill sergeant) while ensuring everyone’s input. She will be responsible for identifying a dataset, performing typical transformations to prep it for a DH analysis, and drafting a supporting contextualization and critique to accompany presentation of each stage of the data work. She has also volunteered to use her graphics skills to help format any external-facing communications materials.

Hannah is looking forward to continuing to learn from her endlessly impressive teammates throughout this semester.

 

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Personal Bio and Contribution Statement

By Sandy Mui (she/her/hers) | Published: February 24, 2019

Personal Bio:

Sandy Mui is the digital intern at Everytown for Gun Safety. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Liberal Studies, on the digital humanities track, at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Following the Spring 2019 semester, she will also complete her B.S. in Journalism and Media Studies in the Macaulay Honors program at Brooklyn College. Her background and research interests lie in journalism and digital media.

Contributions:

Mui is contributing to the Immigrant Newspapers project as a developer, overseeing the conception and composition of the website that will house the digital collection of newspapers. Her experience with WordPress and managing websites will help in this department. Like other group members, she is also contributing research about immigrant newspapers.

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