Digital Technology and Culture

WSU digital archiving project receives prestigious Mellon grant

By Adrian Aumen, College of Arts and Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University researchers have received a $555,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support development and evaluation of a unique online platform for gathering, curating and sharing Native American library and archive collections nationwide.

Oct. 24-30: ‘Hacktivist’ film, events for Open Access Week

By Nella Letizia, WSU Libraries PULLMAN, Wash. – Presentations about open access textbooks, a screening of a documentary on the late Internet “hacktivist” Aaron Swartz and a workshop about social media presence will make up events celebrating International Open Access Week Oct. 24-30 at Washington State University.

Student blends technology, art to create colorful images

By Maegan Murray, WSU Tri-Cities RICHLAND, Wash. – Intending to major in science, Chris Cannon found he connected more with art. So when the recent Night with the Arts at Washington State University Tri-Cities announced it would focus on light, he mixed the fundamentals of photography with the mechanics of physical light.

Powering cultural preservation: New grants expand archiving of indigenous treasures

PULLMAN, Wash. – Just thinking about the box of fragile cassette tapes gives Kim Christen chills. Recorded on the thin ribbons was the last-known speaker of the Kiksht language, yet another vanishing treasure of Native American culture.

Artists-in-residence teach and perform

VANCOUVER – The Digital Technology and Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver announces the 2008 Artists in Residency Program. Sensor-based game interfaces for bicycles, GPS narrative walks in downtown Vancouver, and sound/video works that use cars as the performance space are some of the projects generated out of this year’s theme, “Sensing Bodies: Physical […]

Digital media artists present at gallery

VANCOUVER – Washington State University Vancouver’s Digital Technology and Culture Program and Northbank Gallery present “The 2007 Spring Media Artist Talk Series.” The first speaker is Canadian multimedia artist Steve Gibson, 7 to 8 p.m.,Feb. 22 at Northbank Gallery, 1005 Main Street, downtown Vancouver. Gibson will present “Mapping Spaces: An Introduction to Media Art in […]