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Installation: #CarbonFeed by John Park & Jon Bellona

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#CarbonFeed

Reception: Monday, April 13 from 7 – 8 PM in Daggett Lounge

Installation on view at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library from April 13 – May 13

Photo by John Park
Photo by John Park

#CarbonFeed is a new media project that challenges the perception that the online world is disconnected from physical reality. Artists John Park and Jon Bellona reveal the environmental consequences of online activity by visualizing carbon emissions triggered by tweeting, sonifying Twitter feeds and correlating tweets with data visualization.

#CarbonFeed encourages the Bowdoin community to participate in the instillation by tweeting #carbonfeed and #bowdoin from April 13 – May 13. Your tweets will trigger the installation to emit 0.02g/C02e.

Learn more about #CarbonFeed, John Park, and Jon Bellona.

 

Project supported by Lectures and Concerts and through contributions from DCSI, Visual Arts, Music, Art History, Environmental Studies, Physics, and Government.

Announcing the Fall Hackathon!

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Hackathon November 2014 e-mail
Hackathon November 2014 e-mail

 

Our fall Hackathon will be held Wednesday, November 12th, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the third floor of the VAC! All Bowdoinites are welcome!

 

A hackathon is a space for programmers and designers, from novices to experts, to collaborate intensively on software projects. Come start or work on a project, learn a new coding language, visualize data, or how to protect your online privacy! The digital humanities and social science course students will be working on their projects, and local citizen hackers from Code4Maine (http://dash.code4maine.org/) will be in attendance as well. Faculty and students alike are invited. No prior experience is necessary.

Event: Matthew Booker’s Talk “Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally?”

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Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally?Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally?

  • 9/11/2014 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
  • Location: Sills Hall, Smith Auditorium
  • Event Type: Lecture

In his talk Matthew Booker will explore why urban Americans radically changed their diets in the twentieth century. Tracing the American diet from local oysters to long distance burgers, he will suggest ways we can learn from this history as we rethink today’s and tomorrow’s food.

Matthew Booker is an associate professor of History at North Carolina University, and a specialist in Environmental History and Western North American History.

For more information on this event, please see the website

DCSI Event: Jack Gieseking’s The People, Place, and Space Reader Book Launch

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The People, Place, and Space Reader. 2014. Routledge.
The People, Place, and Space Reader. Edited by Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, with Cindi Katz, Setha Low, and Susan Saegert. 2014. Routledge.

Join us for the first DCSI event of the fall!

Book launch: The People, Place, and Space Reader
Edited by our own Jen Jack Gieseking

Wednesday, September 10th
4:30 p.m., Mass Hall Faculty Room

A conversation between Jen Jack Gieseking, Digital and Computational Studies Initiative, & Matt Klingle, History and Environmental Studies

More about the book:
The People, Place, and Space brings together the writings of scholars from a variety of fields to make sense of the ways we shape and inhabit our world. The included texts help us to understand the relationships between people and place at all scales, and to consider the active roles individuals, groups, and social structures play in a range of environments. These readings highlight the ways in which space and place are produced through social, political, and economic practices, and take into account differences in perception, experience, and practice. The People, Place, and Space Reader includes both classic writings and contemporary research, connecting scholarship across disciplines, periods, and locations. Essays from the editors introduce the texts and outline key issues surrounding each topic. This companion website, peopleplacespace.org, provides additional reading lists covering a broad range of issues and open access versions of many of the essays. An essential resource for students of urban studies, geography, design, sociology, and anyone with an interest in the environment, this volume presents the most dynamic and critical understanding of space and place available.

David Stork Lecture: Computer Vision in the Study of Art: New Rigorous Approaches to the Study of Paintings and Drawings

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David Stork Lecture

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Computer Vision in the Study of Art: New Rigorous Approaches to the Study of Paintings and Drawings
4/21/2014 | 4:15 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom
Open to the Public
Sponsored by the DCSI

What can computers reveal about images that even the best-trained connoisseurs, art historians and artist cannot? How much more powerful and revealing will these methods become? In short, how is the “hard humanities” field of computer image and analysis of art changing our understanding of paintings and drawings?

David Stork’s lecture will include computer vision, pattern recognition and image analysis of works by Jackson Pollock, Vincent van Gogh, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Lorenzo Lotto, and several others. You may never see paintings the same way again!

Dr. Stork, Rambus Fellow at Rambus Labs, is a graduate in physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park. He studied art history at Wellesley College, was Artist-in-Residence through the New York State Council of the Arts and is a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition and Fellow of SPIE, in part for his work on computer image analysis of art. Sponsored by Bowdoin’s Digital and Computational Studies Initiative.