Projects – NewYorkScapes

Queensbound

Nicholas Wolf — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:45:28 +0000

QUEENSBOUND is a collaborative audio project founded by KC Trommer and begun in 2018 with a New Work grant from the Queens Council on the Arts. From Long Island City all the way to Jamaica, the poems of QUEENSBOUND map the neighborhoods and the vibrancy and diversity of the borough, embedding audio recordings from leading Queens poets and writers on a subway map, designed by Kyle Richard.

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Visualizing the Old Croton Aqueduct through Text and Augmented Reality

Nicholas Wolf — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 20:26:07 +0000

This project will contemporize Theophilus Schramke’s Description of the New-York Croton Aqueduct: In English, German and French and create a geographically relevant immersive experience. The endeavor will also digitize Schramke’s drawings and render them to three dimensions so that an immersive experience can be experienced with a cell phone. The underlying work itself is the compilation from…

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Digital Downtown

Nicholas Wolf — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:29:20 +0000

Digital Downtown serves as a complement to the main library website for the Downtown Collection, the largest archival collecting endeavor at Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU’s main repository for archival materials in the arts and humanities. With a focus on the late twentieth-century underground arts scenes of SoHo and the Lower East Side, the Downtown Collection holds a wealth of unique…

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Unmapping the Caribbean: Sanctuary and Sound

Nicholas Wolf — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 20:54:07 +0000

What would a map of sanctuary look like? This digital cartography project “Unmapping the Caribbean: Sanctuary and Sound” employs Esri Story Maps to examine fugitivity in the region through the lenses of marronage and indigeneity, depicting five geographies: New York City, Suriname, Hispaniola, Cuba, and Jamaica. This collaboration grew out of a set of conversations alongside the NYU Sanctuary…

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REPOhistory and the Lower Manhattan Sign Project

Nicholas Wolf — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 02:37:04 +0000

This project explores the collective REPOhistory’s inaugural project, the Lower Manhattan Sign Project (LMSP). The LMSP was a public installation of temporary, site-specific historical markers consisting of 39 signs in 36 locations by 49 members in 1992. The intent of REPOhistory’s LMSP was to reveal absent or missing historical narratives, which also commented on contemporary social issues…

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Downtown Archæologies

Nicholas Wolf — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:07:48 +0000

A class project for the Spring 2018 “Media History of New York” Media, Culture, and Communication class taught by Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, _Downtown Archæologies_ makes use of the Fales Downtown Collection to try to generate a media archaeology of Downtown New York. Students were to find an artifact at the Downtown Collection or the Centro des Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College and write…

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Documenting New York City’s House of the Good Shepherd

Nicholas Wolf — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 14:09:14 +0000

This project recovers the history of New York City’s House of the Good Shepherd, the largest Magdalen asylum operating in Manhattan during the 19th century. Managed by the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, this hybrid institution consisted of a convent, industrial school, and reformatory for “fallen women” and “delinquent girls.” Beginning in 1867, the House of the Good…

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House of Genius Project

socialink — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:59:29 +0000

The House of Genius Project is part of a group digital project on Washington Square and Greenwich Village conducted by librarians in the Humanities and Social Sciences department of NYU’s Bobst Library. Amanda Watson, Arthur Tannenbaum, and Andrew H. Lee are exploring the history of the building known as the House of Genius that used to stand at 61 Washington Square South.

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The Crane-Rychtarik Correspondence

socialink — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:58:29 +0000

This website represents a prototype for a digital edition of the Crane-Rychtarik correspondence held by Fales Library and Special Collections. It features high-resolution facsimiles of the letters exchanged between the modernist poet and set designer, as well as transcriptions, metadata, and, in some cases, annotations and TEI encoding. The project is interested in considering Crane’s relationship…

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Irish Speakers and the Empire City

socialink — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:57:29 +0000

Irish Speakers and the Empire City is a collaborative endeavor to try to identify and record the household information of residents of New York City born in Ireland who claimed Irish (Gaelic) as their mother tongue on the 1910 census.

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