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March 28, 2017
It's been a little more than a month since I joined the Itinera project, and I am happy to say that there has been much progress...
March 15, 2017
I’ve spent the past month analyzing an Urchin Report on the usage of Medart. Google Urchin was Google Analytics predecessor. I was...
February 28, 2017
Political correctness has been pushed to propagate the idea of distance between the political elite to the working class and...
February 23, 2017
Hi!
My name is Laxmisupriya Avadhanula and I am a part of the FE-R working with Dr. Drew Armstrong and Lily Brewer. The project...
February 23, 2017
Hello,
My name is Victoria Johngrass, and I am a freshman working in accordance with the Office of First Experience in Research...
February 20, 2017
This term is seeing some big changes for Decomposing Bodies— some that will be apparent from the outside, and some that will only...
February 13, 2017
I have been working on Decmposing Bodies for over a month now and I have noticed interesting facts about the Ohio State Reformatory...
February 8, 2017
I recently finished the finding aid for PITT_EDU–medart. PITT_EDU–medart is a folder containing the earliest version of medart. It...
February 4, 2017
Since deciding on the Hudson River Valley School of art, a dataset that is both consistent in theme but varying in compositions and...
February 2, 2017
In the Fall semester of 2016, I started training potential Itinera contributors outside the post of project manager. These...
January 27, 2017
I was first exposed to the project Decomposing Bodies under First Experience of Research's (FER) guidance. I was given a...
January 19, 2017
To start the semester, I finished a finding aid I had started last semester. The finding aid was for VRCOLL-medart,one of the...
December 19, 2016
Considering Artistic Movements to Focus On & A Prelude to Photoshop Pixel Histogram Analysis, Part 2
In my last blog post, I mentioned possible artistic movements to use for my dataset. I have chosen works from the Hudson River...
December 17, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Fall 2016 As I applied to an academic internship over the...
December 16, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Fall 2016 This semester I had a research internship with the...
December 16, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at Fort Ligonier Museum - Fall 2016Over the summer I had the pleasure on interning in the Collections...
December 12, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area - Fall 2016This past summer, I worked at Rivers of Steel, in...
December 8, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at the University Library System - Fall 2016 For my internship this semester, I worked in the Special...
December 5, 2016
Recently, I have taken some time to explore the changes made to medart’s menu page for England (menuengland). Some of the most...
November 23, 2016
In my last blog-post, I touched on a potential method to study neuroesthetics by first analyzing the specific characteristics of...
November 14, 2016
Since starting on Itinera, I've focused on Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, an 18th-Century aristocrat and poet. Specifically, I focus...
November 11, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Fall 2016 Located on the second floor of CMNH, adjacent to...
November 9, 2016
With the help of Matt Burton we were able to successfully extract metadata from the medart folders via unix commands. We have since...
November 8, 2016
Finally, after much hard work, deliberation, investigation, and play ourselves, the Museum Studies Exhibition Seminar class is...
November 6, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Fall 2016After reading only a mere summary of a few possible...
October 31, 2016
Alison Langmead has embarked on outreach efforts to connect the VMW with other digital humanities spaces, beginning with our...
October 24, 2016
Hello!
My name is Dheeraj K. Jalluri and I am an undergraduate senior working on an independent project with the Visual Media...
October 18, 2016
For the last couple of weeks on the Sustaining MedArt project I have focused on compiling what I have learned from comparing...
October 18, 2016
Working on Decomposing Bodies over the last month and a half has been an exercise in process. Shortly after the start of the...
October 7, 2016
As a collaboration between Information Sciences and the History of Art and Architecture, “Sustaining MedArt” is a project conceived...
October 6, 2016
It seems that autumn is finally here, more or less. It is a splendid season, but also perhaps the most hectic in academia-land. New...
October 4, 2016
It has been a busy two weeks on the MedArt project. I am thrilled to announce that I have conquered BitCurator, and it...
October 2, 2016
In the Museum Exhibition Seminar class this past week, we consolidated what we had been learning about from readings, discussions,...
September 28, 2016
The class got a special treat on an otherwise dreary Monday this week. We met up with museum director Lynn Zelevansky and associate...
September 23, 2016
This Friday's toolshop, facilitated by Kate Joranson, Alison Langmead, and myself, focuses on tools and techniques for project...
September 19, 2016
After a successful book-browsing session set up for us by librarian Kate Joranson, the class got to work exploring catalogues of...
September 14, 2016
This week marks the end of my second offical week working in the Visual Media Workshop on the Sustaining MedArt project. It's been...
September 7, 2016
Opening Event: Thursday, September 8th, 4-6pm
This exhibition incorporates the work and research of Rich Pell (Curator at the...
September 1, 2016
This fall's HAA 1020/2020: Museum Studies Exhibition Seminar students began their journey into the world of contemporary Latin...
August 2, 2016
A major trend that the Sustaining MedArt research team found in the interviews taken in Kalamazoo on the usability of the site was...