Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger First Impressions Orchard Street is a museum of its own. As I left the subway station at East Broadway and walked up Essex Street toward Orchard, I felt transported back to the late nineteenth century, when immigrants living on … Read More →
Category Archives: Observations
MoMA Reflections ~ Museum Visit and Curator Talk
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger I visited MoMA on a Sunday morning, expecting to find a long line wrapping around the block, as I had on other weekends, but on this morning there were only two people ahead of me waiting to buy tickets, … Read More →
On the Art of Documentation ~ After Carvalhosa’s “Sum of Days”
Art of the Archive Professor Michael Connor After reading Boris Groys’s “Art in the Age of Biopolitics: From Artwork to Art Documentation,” I thought about “Sum of Days,” by the Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa, currently on view in MoMA’s Marron Atrium. “Sum of Days” is … Read More →
Visiting the American Museum of Natural History ~ Summary and Reflection
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger I usually enter the American Museum of Natural History through the entrance on Central Park West, up the main steps and past the bronze statue, then into the Hall of North American Mammals. Today, though, the main entrance was … Read More →
Visiting Museums ~ Summary and Reflection
Cabinets of Wonders Professor Nancy Hechinger I spent Sunday afternoon at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Wednesday afternoon at the Jewish Museum on the corner of 92nd Street and Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side. First Impressions The contrast between the two museums … Read More →
Transitional Collaborative Space ~ Notes Toward a Recontextualization of the Bobst Library Lobby
Fashioning Technology: Installation + Intervention Professor Amanda Parkes Assigned to document a social situation in an NYU environment, then “sketch and describe an alternative to [the] documented situation that reflects an augmentation, intervention, or recontextualization of the social paradigm,” I decided to visit the Elmer … Read More →
Business Model Report ~ Profiling Electric Lit
The Evolution of Post-Print Media Professor Art Kleiner Can a literary magazine prove that digital distribution works? In June of 2009, Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum, each of whom hold an MFA from Brooklyn College where they met, launched Electric Literature, a literary quarterly devoted … Read More →
Analyzing Paper Poetry ~ Making Pop-Up Books : Assignment Four
Making Pop-Up Books Professor Marianne Petit In 2007, Simon & Schuster published paper engineer David Pelham’s pop-up book Trail: Paper Poetry. A nature walk through an enchanted world, Trail is a marvel of paper engineering made from elegant white forms accented with silver. In one … Read More →
Deconstructing Megawords Magazine ~ Making Pop-Up Books : Assignment Three
Making Pop-Up Books Professor Marianne Petit For my third pop-up exercise, I wanted to explore the process of transforming found two-dimensional materials into three-dimensional collages. Megawords magazine recently published an interesting selection of urban images – I thought these would be perfect to adapt to … Read More →
Soundwalk ~ Grand Central Terminal
Sound and The City Professor Daniel Perlin Date: February 3, 2011 Time: 1:30pm – 3:00pm Tasked this week with creating an audio tour of one of New York City’s public spaces, I was eager to explore the acoustic qualities of Grand Central Terminal. The terminal’s … Read More →
Trend Report ~ Reading Books in the Digital Age
The Evolution of Post-Print Media Professor Art Kleiner In the world of book publishing, the prevailing debate around the publication of digital content deals with monetization, e-reader functionality, and a changing landscape of e-book standards. Woven into this debate are threads of conversation about, among … Read More →
Key to Kindle: A Short History of E Ink
This according to a report PricewaterhouseCoopers released in 2000, the same year Stephen King published Riding the Bullet, a 66-page digital novella which sold 400,000 copies in the first 24 hours. The potential for ebooks’ to compete against traditional books for consumer dollars seemed great, … Read More →