Data Science & Society (DSS) Event with the Yale University Lens Media Lab on Tuesday April 9 with Thomas Schmickl, University of Graz, Austria, on Monday April 8 (multiple times; see below).

Please join us at 5:30PM, Tuesday, April 9 in Taylor Hall Room 102. Paul Messier, Kappy Mintie, and Damon Crockett from the Lens Media Lab at Yale University will participate in a panel titled

“Characterizing Twentieth-Century Photographic Papers: A Multidisciplinary Approach.”

The panel will describe how the Paperbase project was conceived, the interdisciplinary work required to develop it, and how it can be used by scholars interested in the history of photography. Each of the panelists, who come from different disciplinary backgrounds, will also describe how they came to work at the Lens Media Lab and how their specialized knowledge contributed to the production of Paperbase.

The panel will be followed by a hands-on demonstration of some of the Lens Media Lab’s data collection tools at 6:30 PM in the Taylor Hall Jade Room.

Vassar students have the chance to meet with the panelists to discuss data science, art, and photography, among other topics, between 12PM and 2PM on April 9 in College Center 240. Food will be provided. Students are directed to sign up at this link.

This event is sponsored by Vassar’s Data Science and Society initiative, the Department of Art, and the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.