12/7/2018 Meeting notes

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Melanie Hibbert - Director of Instructional Media and Technology and the Media Center at Barnard College

Jennifer Brown - Design & Technologies Librarian at Barnard College

Barnard College has a nationally recognized Department of Dance, and library administrators in collaboration with faculty piloted media and digital tools for dance research, performance, and composition. This presentation will highlight case studies on using AR/VR and how it can offer innovative methods of instruction in the performing arts. Jennifer Brown will also discuss and highlight Barnard's Design Center. 

Melanie Hibbert is the Director of Instructional Media and Technology and the Media Center at Barnard College.  She has a doctorate in education from Columbia University, and has worked extensively around education, media production, and learning from technology. 

Jennifer Brown is the Design & Technologies Librarian at Barnard Library’s Design Center. Her librarianship is driven by critical frameworks like design justice and speculative futuring, both of which encourage embedding equity and inclusion throughout one's design process.  She holds an M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Makerspace and design studio located at Milstein Center

• Open studio hours, 1 on 1 consults, workshops
• Safety orientation and community agreement
• Curriculum integrations

What's Next

• Project grants
• Artist/hacker in residence
• Staff growth

Dance Magic Dance

360/VR Video Dance Pilot

• Ricoh Theta 360 cameras recording various genres of dance
• Feedback
  • choreographer insight from footage
  • affordable
  • learning dance, inclusivity
  • drawbacks: motion sickness, isolation

Barnard Augmented App

• site specific dance composition course
• app scan archival image and see site specific dancing on phone
• Feedback
  • link archives, called attention to locations, link inaccessible cultural heritage
  • Drawbacks: How do you choreograph for iPhone, resource-intensive