I am currently a peon in the kingdom of New Media but hope to rise in the ranks quickly. I have always had a love for all things technological, particularly anything related to 'the future'. I am currently completing a Computer Science minor and a New Media major hopefully in the next year.
I would really like to know more about the tools (3D printer, laser cutter, etc.) available to students here on campus!
Anne Collins Goodyear (Co-director, Bowdoin Art Museum) is former curator at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. As president of the College Art Association she presided over its first THATCamp in 2013.
Ari Epstein (Terrascope, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT) devises innovative settings for project-based, team-oriented education, from youth radio to exhibition design.
Nicole Starosielski (Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU) focuses on the global distribution of digital media, most recently on how transoceanic cables from telegraph to Internet have affected the geopolitics of islands and coasts. Her new media project Surfacing inspired the conference's title.
Andrew Stauffer (Department of English, University of Virginia) is renowned as a digital historian of 19th-century literature and for his leadership of NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship).
Mary Erica Zimmer (PhD candidate at the Editorial Institute, Boston University) is writing a dissertation on Geoffrey Hill and working on interactive early modern maps.
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