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Wednesday, September 7th Arts @ 29 Garden 29 Garden St (entrance on Chauncey St, under “Arts@29 Garden banner”) 7-9 pm openLAB_03 will be an evening of surprises: thermal printers that respond to text...
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Digital Humanities and the merry-go-round of metacommentary
At his own blog, game designer, critic, and Georgia Tech digital media professor Ian Bogost comments on the free-wheeling blog carnival that is the digital humanities (putting himself in the grip of...
View ArticleExciting Spring courses by metaLAB friends
There are lots of very exciting courses be offerred around campus by friends with many overlapping concerns. In particular, these two studios in VES should be great: VES 45: “The New Photographers” by...
View ArticleTweet withheld: (mis)understanding censorship on the Internet
Since Twitter announced its Country Withheld Content policy last Thursday, fear and outrage have spread at tweetspeed across the blogosphere and the connected media, with Reporters Without Borders...
View ArticleInteractive documentary and the wild, wired world
Bear 71 isn’t your grandfather’s grizzly. She knows the name of the drug that tranquilized her, knows too about Zoloft and Viagra, knows that her radio collar broadcasts in the VHF range. She can tell...
View ArticlePoint Cloud: networked weather, rematerialized
Have a look at the enigmatic Point Cloud, described by its creator James Leng as “an attempt to reimagine our daily interaction with weather data.” Leng, who was a student in the metaLAB-affiliated...
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Summer moves
The summer is upon us and metaLAB is looking forward to a number of important initiatives that will be launched during its course. Several new collaborators will be joining the core team both for the...
View ArticleData Artifacts
The term “artifact” has at least two meanings: From a technical perspective, an artifact is an unintentional pattern in data, arising from processes of collection and management. From a cultural...
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metaLAB’s 2012 community of fellows
Last Friday, metaLAB’s inaugural fellows community convened for the first time! Here they are in the backyard of metaLAB’s offices at 42 Kirkland—with an unseen wild turkey roaming in the...
View ArticleTelling Data: Artifacts and the Digital Humanities
Beginning last week, Boston hosted four days of digital-humanities doing, thinking, and making: on Friday and Saturday at Simmons College, Digital Humanities: the Next Generation brought scholars,...
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Library Observatory goes live!
In conjunction with the launch of the DPLA, metaLAB at Harvard is pleased to share Library Observatory, a web-native graphical search tool for discovering the DPLA’s growing collection of millions of...
View ArticledigitalSTS Workshop: Designing Data Narratives at the Arnold Arboretum
metaLAB(at)Harvard is hosting the second digitalSTS workshop at the Arnold Arboretum on June 27-28. We will explore the potential of the “data narrative” as a hybrid genre for the expression of...
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Balloon Mapping Bussey Brook Meadow
The view from 500 feet above Bussey Brook Meadow, the Arboretum’s urban wild. One of over 4000 photos taken during a recent balloon mapping experiment. Also pictured here: Peter Del Tredici, Stephen...
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digitalSTS and Design Workshop
Over the course of two days this summer (June 27-28, 2013) metaLAB hosted scholars from around the world at Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum to explore the use of design methods in the social...
View ArticleCurarium distilled
A contingent of metaLABbers crossed the Law School campus today to present a Berkman-Center lunch talk on the Homeless Paintings project and Curarium, the crowd-curation platform we’re building to...
View ArticleOpportunity at metaLAB: project coordinator
MetaLAB Is looking for a new team member to perform a wide range of coordination, administrative, research, and related activities. This project coordinator will integrate the efforts of multiple team...
View ArticleTrack Changes: the literary history of word processing, with Matthew...
With the Humanities Center’s Book History Seminar, metaLAB is sponsoring a visit by Matthew Kirschenbaum, whose forthcoming Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing (Harvard) is already...
View ArticleTeaching with the Japan Disaster Archive — A Report in Medias Res
This fall I’ve joined Professors Andrew Gordon (History) and Theodore Bestor (Anthropology) in teaching a course on the disasters in Japan in March 2011 — it has proven very suggestive for approaches...
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Library Test Kitchen Open House: Friday the 13th
The fall semester of Library Test Kitchen will be wrapping up this Friday with an open house in Loeb Library. Currently in its third year, Library Test Kitchen is an Advanced Seminar led by Jeff...
View ArticleVoices in the data stream: hacking networked storytelling
One of the richest parts of the Berkman fellows program is the way the convergent interests of a spectrum of expertise and sensibility express themselves in collaboration and collegial engagement. A...
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