Criminal identification is kind of like Hegel: once you start studying it, you see it everywhere. Most recently at the Queens Museum, where 13 Most Wanted tells the sad story of Warhol's "mug shot mural." Review.
The fantastic scholar David Berry recently drew attention to a number of issues surrounding facial recognition and the impact of remote sensing in public.
Fascinating article: LAPD Crime photographs on exhibition at Paris Photo in LA. Crime + photography - a long, weird marriage.
From 4:30 - 6 pm yesterday, the WPU Assembly room was a zoo: 240 students, 51 faculty mentors, all their posters, laptop computers, and spiral-bound books of abstracts. The First In Research students' final presentations were awesome! Very impressive work by everyone. We loved having Marybeth and Wawa work with us this semester on Itinera.
During the spring of 2014, five undergraduate teaching mentors from the University of Pittsburgh implemented a program called The Encounters Project: Art in the City at a Pittsburgh Public Schools District high school.
...FIVE of the grants went to projects incorporating computing.
Our colleagues over at 4humanities.org have brought our attention to an "idea comparison" engine that they have set up to talk about what the value of studying the humanities might be. It presents you with a series of dyads, allowing you to pick between different options...including "I can't decide." You may also add your own thoughts. A peek at the results is also revealing...
This is my last time in lab before our presentations next Thursday. (Everyone should totally come to the WPU Assembly Room to see all of the FER presentations on 4/17 from 4:30-6!) It's really weird to think that today might have been my last time logging into Itinera. My freshman year is ending, and it's overall just a really weird feeling. It's even worse when I think about how I will be in Tanzania in a month and France in a year. Everyone says college moves so fast and its so true.
Humanities, usually has the the bad rep of being easy and lacking in innovation and necessary mental capabilities. Society contrasts humanities with both math and science. They say that unlike, math and science, humanities does not take much effort anad doed not necessarily build on prior knowledge. Well, for everything we've learned in the digital humanities this semester, I can honestly say, society has it all wrong.
The exhibition ReDiscover (September 2013) was featured in the Spring 2014 issue of CAPabilities!
