23
January
2025
Event
Media Arts Day 2025
10:00 AM - 3:45 PM
Georgia Tech Library
The Georgia Tech Library and Interdisciplinary Media Arts Center (IMA) are proud to bring Media Arts Day 2025 to campus Thursday, Jan. 23, featuring events throughout the day in various locations throughout the Library.
“This event is a celebration of new ways of learning and creating knowledge born from the intersection of arts and technology,” said Yanni Loukissas, director of IMA. “It marries the Library’s reputation as a space for experimentation, connection, and communication with the School of Literature, Media and Communication’s work defining new models of intellectual inquiry and practice.”
Media Arts Day 2025 is co-sponsored by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.
Schedule
10 a.m. | Creative and Academic Engagement with AI Tools
This panel features Jelani Liddell (Assistant Director for Outreach Initiatives at OMED Educational Services), Dr. Emily Weigel (School of Biological Sciences), Dr. Sophie Landrieux Kartochian (School of Modern Languages), Georgia Tech student Maria Deirisarri (Business Administration), and moderator Fred Rascoe (Scholarly Communication Librarian). They will discuss how each panelist uses artificial intelligence in artistic and practical projects, inside and outside the classroom.
About the panel
Dr. Sophie Landrieux Kartochian is a Lecturer of French at Georgia Tech. She holds a PhD in Business Administration from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a dual degree in Economics and Business of Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay. She has been Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and French Lecturer for International Business at Georgia State University. She has also worked at Atlanta International School and in the field of continuing education. Maria Deirisarri is her former student in French Conversation and Culture.
Jelani Liddell is an educator, entrepreneur, founder, coach, and songwriter at heart. Jelani has been a part of the OMED: Educational Services team since December 2019 and currently serves as the assistant director of outreach initiatives. Jelani has spent over 10 years in higher education in a student development capacity, primarily working with underrepresented students in higher education and STEAM content areas.
Dr. Emily Weigel is a nationally recognized educator teaching a diverse range of courses at GT, including Intro Biology, Organismal Biology, and Ecology Lecture and Lab, as well as upper-level courses in Behavior, Experimental Design, Statistics, and in the VIP program. She also serves as a teaching mentor to graduate and undergraduate Teaching Assistants (TAs) in the TA prep courses, and instructs graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the Tech to Teaching capstone course through the Center for Teaching and Learning.
11:15 a.m. | Virtual Reality and Libraries
Have you considered the integration of emerging media technologies into your classes or research?
Join Multimedia and Emerging Technologies Librarian Alison Valk as she demonstrates some of the work the Library’s Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) research section has produced over the last few years. This pop-up showcase will demonstrate how the team is leveraging virtual reality with archival collections. By 3-D scanning some of the Library’s artifacts and developing a virtual immersive exhibit space, this project is inspiring new ways of engaging with collections and resources. Learn more about the project here.
1 p.m. | Lost in the Stacks interview: How To Trick Your Algorithm
Join Professor Christina Shivers, School of Architecture, and Charlie Bennett, Public Engagment Librarian, on Thursday, Jan. 23 from 1pm to 2:15 p.m. in the Georgia Tech Library’s Scholars Event Network Theater, located on the first floor of Price Gilbert, for a live Lost in the Stacks podcast recording.
Professor Shivers will be interviewed about her ongoing research project, “How To Trick Your Algorithm,” asking what potential AI poses for the development of new material and craft practices in architecture, and how these practices can better integrate ecological goals than existing techniques.
About
Professor Christina Shivers is an academic, architect, and musician whose research broadly focuses on the intersection of environmental and economic thought specifically within the design disciplines. She holds a B.A. in Music with a concentration in Music Theory and Performance from Florida State University, a Masters of Architecture degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is currently the 2023 Ventulett NEXT Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Architecture.
2:30 p.m. | Explore the Interactive Media Zone
Join Georgia Tech Library Communications Manager Jason Wright as he demonstrates the Library's Interactive Media Zone, or IMZ.
The IMZ features a more than 40-foot curved landscape screen and ten interactive tablet stations allowing users to view and experience digital exhibits, project showcases, and other novel forms of learning. It joins Media Bridge, which opened in March 2022, in exposing students, faculty, staff and visitors to the world of digital scholarship available at the Library.
The IMZ features three main content modes: Digital exhibit, pop-up lecture, and hero mode. The digital exhibit option features pre-planned animations and live data, allowing users who walk up to interact with a full digital experience. The pop-up lecture feature allows faculty and visiting experts to hold short-form, impromptu lessons while utilizing the space’s unique interactive capabilities. Hero mode allows the IMZ to operate as a kind of large scale digital sign, promoting both Library and campus activities, researchers, students, and stories.
In late fall 2024 it launched by hosting Georgia Tech Library 2024 Artist-in-Residence Dr. Bojana Ginn's piece Orchid Dreams.
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