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“Technology and Dance” with Ashley Ferro-Murray – Part of the Technology, Art, and Culture Lecture Series

February 5, 2018 By Sabina Hartnett '18

February 5, 2018 | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom

Ashley Ferro-Murray will discuss how certain trends in the history of the relationship between “technology” and “dance” impact her work as a curator of dance and theater at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), a multi-venue arts center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. From this historical perspective, Ferro-Murray will discuss a range of current curatorial projects including her work with Trajal Harrel, Maria Hassabi, Ali Moini, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Andrew Schneider. She will reflect on what she sees as the current and evolving state of incorporating digital culture into cross-disciplinary performance, including film and installation works, through the lens of her curatorial work with these and other artists.

Ferro-Murray is associate curator of theater/dance at EMPAC. She holds a PhD in performance studies with emphasis in new media from the University of California, Berkeley. Current commissions and coproductions include works by Mary Armentrout, Mallory Catlett, Elena Demyanenko and Erika Mijlin, Trajal Harrell, Maria Hassabi, Ali Moini, Andrew Schneider and Alice Sheppard.

She is also currently working on a book project titled Choreography and the Digital Era: Dancing the Cultural Differences of Technology. Based in part on her doctoral research and informed by her current curatorial practice, Choreography in the Digital Era explores the importance of movement in the construction of bodies and identity in the digital age. She has published in Media-N Journal, The Drama Review, and Dance Research Journal. Recent articles include ‘Transborder Immigrant Tool’, ‘Choreographic Resistance in the US-Mexican Borderlands and Technologies of Performance’, and ‘Machinic Staging and Corporeal Choreographies’. Ferro-Murray has given talks at University of California, Irvine, The University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, Cornell University, and Bowdoin. She was previously the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Time Global Fellow and the recipient of the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Grant. This summer Ferro-Murray will be on faculty of the NEH Institute for Digital Technologies in Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Georgia.

Lecture sponsored by Digital and Computational Studies (DCS).

“A Prehistory of The Museum of Capitalism” with Andrea Steves of FICTILIS – Part of the Technology, Art, and Culture Lecture Series

January 25, 2018 By Sabina Hartnett '18

January 25, 2018 | 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom

Andrea Steves, from the art collaborative FICTILIS, will talk about the project ‘The Museum of Capitalism’ – an institution dedicated to educating this generation and future generations about the history, philosophy, and legacy of capitalism, through exhibitions, research, and publication. The museum’s programs result from collaborations between a network of researchers, curators, artists, designers, filmmakers, writers, economists, historians, scientists, and non-specialists from all walks of life, including those with direct experience of capitalism.

FICTILIS is the collaborative practice of multimedia artists and curators Andrea Steves and Timothy Furstnau. The word “FICTILIS” is Latin for “capable of being shaped or changed; earthen,” which refers both to the form of their practice and the role it is intended to play within a larger culture.

FICTILIS has curated exhibitions, organized events, and been artists in residence or visiting artists in many different venues across the US and internationally, including Headlands Center for the Arts (Sausalito, CA); Princeton School of Architecture (Princeton, NJ); Science Gallery (Dublin, Ireland); the Art Meets Radical Openness Festival (Linz, Austria); and the Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM). Recent projects have received grants from the Puffin Foundation, the Left Tilt Fund, and the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, and have been nominated for the Human Impacts Institute’s Creative Climate Award, the COAL Art & Environment Prize in Paris, France, as part of ARTCOP21.

Lecture sponsored by Digital and Computational Studies (DCS).

Being a “Berktern”: Sabina Hartnett ’18 reflects on Summer 2016

June 7, 2017 By Professor Crystal Hall

Sabina Hartnett ’18Professor Crystal Hall and Sabina Hartnett ’18 recently reflected on Sabina’s experience as an intern with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University in Summer 2016. Look for announcements about future opportunities as a “Berktern” in February!

Prof. Hall: First, can you describe your internship? What was the big picture? What was your day-to-day work like?

Sabina: Last summer I worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. I worked specifically on the Lumen Project (lumendatabase.org) which is a third party transparency website publishing takedown notices (primarily DMCA related). You can kind of think of it as a graveyard for online, albeit often copyright infringing, content. We published notices from a variety of sources, the largest being Google and Twitter. The takedown notices were most often a result of copyright infringement, but were also comprised of defamation notices, trademark, and court orders among other things. Day-to-day I spent time on all levels of the project; I spent time manually parsing through notices and redacting confidential information, I read about current copyright/piracy/torrent/defamation/cyber-law related news and curating our project’s Twitter content, I wrote blog posts, and I conducted individual research on a subset of the data.

Prof. Hall: How did the internship connect with your DCS courses and research?

Sabina: ​While my project dealt with a very niche part of online content-sharing and the importance of collecting data (we can consider Lumen’s database of notices Big Data), I found it incredibly useful to have a DCS background and thus context. From DCS I got a taste of the importance of various data collections and analyses and was better able to appreciate my project and its significance. Not to mention that, for my individual research I did all my analysis (both qualitative and quantitative) and visualizations in R!

Prof. Hall: What advice do you have for anyone thinking about applying for a Berkman Center Fellowship or a similar summer experience?

Sabina: The Berkman Klein Intern program is AWESOME- they do a great job of bringing in a variety of people from a range of backgrounds to build a cohesive and productive community. I had a blast getting to know the other interns as well as some of the Center’s fellows and staff. I would encourage people of all academic backgrounds to consider applying to this internship as well as any similar ones, it’s a great way to expose yourself to new thought processes, ideologies, and academic approaches! It’s amazing to see how so many disciplines can overlap and work together to productively solve real world problems and conduct academic research. My only caveat (for any and all researchers) is to be wary of burn-out, going right from Bowdoin, to another academic setting, back to Bowdoin is tiring. But if you find an opportunity as exciting as the Berkman Klein Center – it is 110% worth it!!

Digital Study of Gossip in Jane Austen

May 22, 2017 By Professor Crystal Hall

Phoebe Bumsted '17
Phoebe Bumsted ’17

In Fall 2016 and Spring 2017, English and Computer Science major Phoebe Bumsted conducted an independent research project “A Digital Study of Gossip in Emma“. The results of her work can be found in the following blog posts:

Introduction

About the Chapters

Methodology

Graphs – the Novel

Graphs – Volume 2, Chapter 3, To

Graphs – Volume 2, Chapter 3, About

Graphs – Volume 2, Chapter 8, To

Graphs – Volume 2, Chapter 8, About

Unpursued Routes

Conclusion

Works Cited

Great work, Phoebe!

Works Cited

May 19, 2017 By Phoebe Bumsted '17

Austen, Jane. Emma. Edited by James Kingsley, Oxford World’s Classics, 2008.

Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen’s Major Novels. The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, austen.unl.edu. Accessed 4 Dec., 2016.

Ferguson, Frances. “Jane Austen, Emma, and the Impact of Form.” Modern Quarterly, vol. 61, no. 1, 2000, pp. 157-180.

Finch, Casey & Peter Bowen. “‘The Tittle-Tattle of Highbury’: Gossip and the Free-Indirect Style in Emma,” Representations, no. 31, 1990, pp. 1-18.

Goss, Erin. “Homespun Gossip: Jane West, Jane Austen, and the Task of Literary Criticism.” The Eighteenth Centry, vol. 56, no. 2, 2015, pp. 165-177.

“gossip, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, December 2016. Web. 8 December 2016.

“gossip, v.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, December 2016. Web. 8 December 2016.

Moretti, Franco. “Network Theory, Plot Analysis.” Stanford Literary Lab. 1 May, 2011.

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