Now you’ve some time to recover from our busy weekend, we’d appreciate it if you could please take a moment to fill out this survey on the 2016 Central New York THATCamp.

Thanks again for your participation – we hope that you enjoyed the event, and came away with some useful resources and ideas for your own work. If you would like to get in contact with any of the other participants, you can find everyone’s details on the Campers page of the website.

We’ll be contacting you in the future about more THATCamps, symposia, and other events at Cornell and Syracuse. In the meantime, look out for the new website for Cornell’s Digital Humanities Collaborative–a link will be posted on our placeholder website shortly. You can also contact Mia Tootill (mst88@cornell.edu) for info about Cornell’s new Digital Humanities Grad Network.

Thanks to everyone who turned up yesterday! Day 2 begins in Olin 702 at 10am with breakfast, followed by the first sessions at 10.15am. Or you can check out the schedule and drop by during the day. A couple of reminders:

• Sign up for dork shorts (an opportunity to present your digital work/ideas for future projects etc. in 1-2 minutes)–these will take place during lunch. See an example here.
• Is there anything we didn’t cover yesterday that you’d like to learn/tell people about? Propose a session and/or let me know you want to add something to the schedule.
• Use the hashtags listed in the schedule to live tweet your session and remember to use the googledocs to take collaborative notes

Welcome to the CNY 2016 THATCamp! We’re starting the day with the inaugural Graduate Student Digital Humanities Symposium in Olin Library 703, then the THATCamp will launch after lunch at 1.45pm, also in Olin 703. We hope you’ll join us for refreshments at the reception in the A.D. White House at 5pm.

If you can’t stay for the whole two days, feel free to check the schedule, which’ll be updated by 2.15pm today, and stop by for whichever sessions catch your interest!

Gather, create, invent and learn with Cornell University Library’s new pop-up makerspace! Makerspaces are DIY areas equipped with supplies, where people with any level of experience can drop in, mess around, work together and make stuff. The Library’s new portable kit includes a 3D printer and scanner, Arduino and Littlebits microelectronics kits, button making, basic hardware tools, and more.  

Come to a hands-on demonstration; try making something; discuss the range of applications, programming, and other possibilities for making and makerspaces in the library; and participate in a makerspace design challenge!

Enjoy a guided tour of the the exhibit “Signal to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Rose Goldsen Archive” with one of the exhibit’s curators.  This exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to experience more than 60 original electronic and digital artworks involving video, sound, complex interactive multimedia and the Internet. The exhibition also features posters, pamphlets and other materials documenting the international history of artists, granting agencies, and cultural centers that have supported experimental media work across disciplines, artistic boundaries, and geopolitical zones.

Depending on participants’ interests, discussion might include such topics as:

• Central New York’s important role in the development of media art
• Technological experimentation and the arts
• Challenges of teaching and reasearch using historical (obsolete) media formats
• Developing digital preservation infrastructure needed to support such research collections

Mendeley is a citation management software that also allows you to organize and manage your digital library. It integrates with your Hard Drive, Zotero (endnote), Microsoft Word, and your internet browser to allow you to seamlessly keep track of your sources, cite them, and produce bibliographies. It also comes with a lively online community and social features that allow you to search for academic papers and share your library with others. I’m no expert, but I can introduce the software and some of its functionality, and also talk about my personal transition from hard copy books to digital reading.

Scalar can be a powerful tool for producing a multimodal project. However, its interface is less than intuitive and can prove intimidating to students with little or no experience with digital composition. In this session, we’ll discuss techniques for generating _Scalar_ project prompts appropriate to an undergraduate (and especially a freshman) audience, ways of integrating _Scalar_ training into class meetings, and modes of assessment. In the process, we’ll try our hand at using the _Scalar_ interface and manipulating and annotating media within _Scalar_.

Have a collection of materials (images, pdfs, sound recordings, videos, other files) you would like to archive or exhibit online? Omeka is free, open source software that can help you document your own collections or primary source materials you are researching. Using this innovative software developed for scholars, build collections of texts, images, or multimedia, and display content through galleries, with curatorial annotations, on maps, and more. Attendees will learn the basics while creating a small digital collection and online exhibition. Bring a laptop (NOT an iPad or other tablet). Learn more about Omeka at omeka.org and omeka.net. 60 minutes.

Friday, April 8, 4.30pm

Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University

Come along a day early to hear Cathy Davidson deliver the plenary lecture at the Society for the Humanities’ Annual Fellows’ Workshop, “Thinking Time.” The daylong workshop precedes the Digital Humanities Grad Symposium and THATCamp, and is likewise open to the public.

Professor Davidson will be looking back historically to the origins of the modern university while also challenging us to deconstruct the higher education punch clock in the realms over which we have power: our classrooms.  She will think with us about what learning might look like if all vestiges of “seat time” were eliminated.  She departs from many pundits who seek to solve the “crisis” of higher education by such measures as reducing the four-year undergraduate clock to three years or slashing the PhD to a four-year project.  Switching out the time allocations does not get to the heart of the problems.  It does not transform the dependency of the present system on a punch-clock calibrated to the demands, aspirations, and paradigms of a different era.  By contrast, she advocates thinking deeply about how to create a more innovative, fluid, equitable, and activist model of higher learning not just for the world as it is, but also for the world as we wish it to be.

Hi Campers! Registration is now open for the CNY2016 THATCamp, which will be held in the Olin Library at Cornell University. Please register here by April 4, so we can order an appropriate amount of food (and T-shirts!) There are no registration fees, and breakfast, lunch, and coffee/tea will be provided.

The event will follow Cornell’s inaugural Graduate Student Digital Humanities Symposium; if you are interested in submitting a proposal for the half-day symposium, please contact Mia Tootill (mst88@cornell.edu) or go ahead and submit your abstract here (deadline 21 Feb). The THATCamp will launch with lunch on Saturday April 9 and continue through Sunday April 10.

Feel free to suggest a session on the Propose page. Sessions can be on any topic relevant to the humanities and technology – examples from previous THATCamps are listed on the page if you want ideas. The sessions are intended to be collaborative explorations of a topic, with proposers acting as session facilitators, but you can also suggest a topic you don’t yet know anything about and ask for a volunteer session leader. Final determination of which sessions will go ahead will take place on the morning of the event, based on the interest of those assembled.

Co-Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor, from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Cornell Library, and the Cornell GPSAFC.