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Idea Lab

In ongoing conjunction with the International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archives, the Center for Experimental Humanities (EH) is proud to present the IDEA Lab at EH, a biweekly workshop facilitating student-led research at the intersection of the humanities and data science. The IDEA Lab at EH provides students with hands-on experience and internship opportunities in the developing field of digital archiving in GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) settings. IDEA and Linked Open Data aim to create an accessible, multi-lingual future of information management. Within the context of Wikidata, students learn to use the format of Linked Open Data, an information system emerging as the “best practice” in GLAM organizations as they update their materials for the digital age. Students working in the on-campus IDEA Lab are uniquely positioned for internship opportunities, and help humanities researchers look to the future while simultaneously re-integrating the past.

IDEALab Leader/Coordinator: Anne Hunnell Chen

IDEALab Peer Mentors: Samantha Simon ‘26 and Leah Neuberger ‘27

Learn more about the project: https://duraeuroposarchive.org/

 

Introduction to Media (ARTS 235)

Fall 2025 taught by Krista Caballero

This course offers a foundation in media history and theory, with particular focus on how artists have experimented with emerging technologies and changing media landscapes in ways that both reflect and transform culture. We will consider old and new forms alike, from print media to social media, from the camera obscura to photography, from broadcast television to early net.art, and from the diorama to virtual reality, as we explore how media have continually constructed our perceptions of time, space, knowledge, and identity. We will read media theorists such as Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Jessica Marie Johnson, Donna Haraway, Lev Manovich, Erkki Huhtamo, and Lisa Nakamura alongside examining the work of artists such as Nam June Paik, Stephanie Dinkins, Guillermo Goméz-Peña, Wendy Red Star, Ricardo Dominquez, Mary Flanagan, and Will Wilson. We will also spend hands-on time working creatively with media, in order to assess our own positions as producers as well as users and consumers of media. This course fulfills a requirement for the Experimental Humanities concentration.

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