725 Ponce
Lead Faculty: Gregory Zinman
This project is an outdoor monthly screening series of moving-image art on the façade of 725 Ponce. Screenings include a survey of contemporary Black video art; a historical selection of international dance films, films on global urbanism and public spaces; works made with GAN, AI and quantum computing methods; and a live projection-performance that makes use of the site’s state-of-the-art laser projector, projection mapping, and wireless personal audio via visitors’ smartphones.
CODE.ORG Partnership in Dual Language School
Lead Faculty: Alba Gutierrez
Description: Translation of CODE.org teacher resources into Spanish for use in Spanish DLI schools.
Korean Popular Media and Public Culture Wiki Project
Lead Faculty: Keung Yoon “Becky” Bae
As one of the Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTL), the field of Korean studies is a relatively new initiative, and the Graduate program in Global Media and Culture (MS in GMC, Korean) was established in 2022 for Korean program at Georgia Tech. However, the necessary resources are extremely limited, and a curriculum is still being developed to effectively integrate cultural and media studies with language learning. With the support of the Digital Integrative Liberal Art Center (DILAC), an online curated media guide was created with information on modern Korean culture, mass media, and public discourses, which was integrated into GT Korean courses.
Media Arts
Lead Faculty: Yanni Loukissas
Description: This project was part of Georgia Tech's Media Arts Initiative, which aims to create new academic programs at the intersection of arts and technology. A group of faculty and staff have been investigating the potential of "media arts" as a research and education area at Georgia Tech. Media Arts encompasses any form of creative research in the visual, literary, or performing arts that explores the expressive potential of existing and emerging technologies. This research can challenge traditional categories of art and influence future relationships between technology and culture.
Lost in the Stacks: the Research Library Rock'n'Roll Radio Show
Episode 557: Under the Media Bridge
The Media Bridge is a large-scale digital screen, imagined as a “pool” which is “fed” by streams descending the facade of the bridge joining the Price Gilbert and Crosland library buildings. The physical and digital design of the Bridge media is intended to create for the Library an outward facing public “discovery” venue, showcasing Georgia Tech’s culture of research, scholarship and creativity. To that end, the Media Bridge environment is used to its best advantage in showcasing short, visually compelling motion graphics that may lead to epiphanous discovery of Georgia Tech resources - including people, places and ideas.
Urban Media Fest
Lead Faculty: Laura Bier
Urban Media Fest aimed to increase Atlanta’s access to compelling visual media, cultural performances, and culture producers from the Middle East, primarily, through an annual, virtual, themed film and performance festival and series of panel discussions around the United Nations sustainability goals.
Themes:
- 2023 - Women, Life and Freedom: New Political Imaginaries in Iran, (SDG #5: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment)
- 2022 - Afghan Voices, (SDG #16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions)
- 2021 - Gender and Sustainability in MENA and Women Change-Makers, (SDG #11: Sustainable Cities and Communities)