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Melissa Chu (left), the Assistant to Library Associate Deans at the Dr. Martin Luther King Library and Sharon Thompson (right), a Student Technology Training Coordinator participate in a weaving activity during the Digital Humanities Center’s open house on Tuesday.
Technology meets art at open house By Jackson Lindstrom
hundreds of years, people theory, technology and Luna-Mega. have your score ready to have imagined what (you composition, was another Luna-Mega explained give to the performer, but could) do, would it be fun artist at the exhibit who this can be a faster at least you can sit down The Digital Humanities to just play a keyboard showed off a program that alternative to composing and make music with an Center’s open house on and instead of hearing it, created music in real time. m u s i c t h r o u g h ensemble as we're doing the San José State campus you see it?” Luna-Mega’s exhibition improvisation. it.” flaunted the prowess of The p r o g r a m involved an algorithmic “The process from Another exhibit at the art and technology of corresponded specific program. (improvising) to writing open house was a showcase students, artists, and keys to shapes and While operating this it down (is) a huge turnoff for Adobe Firefly, which researchers on Tuesday colors, and made those program, one could use a lot of the time,” Luna- is a software application at the Dr. Martin Luther corresponding colors a small soundboard to Mega said. “So I can by Adobe that creates King Jr. Library. Christina Mune, associate dean of innovation and resource management at the MLK library, has been coordinating librar y affairs for five years. “The idea of the Digital Humanities Center is it connects people with tools or approaches to taking their scholarship, or their research or teaching style and infusing it with a technology that expands Christina Mune its reach or impact,” Mune Associate dean of innovation and resource said. management at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library The open house showcased the work of students, professors, and other faculty members. Nick Szydlowski, a scholarly communications and shapes bounce to the adjust melodic patterns, generate sound for ten generative artificial and digital scholarship top of the screen when such as pitch or reverb, minutes, and maybe I can intelligence images. librarian at the MLK pressed. of a constant sound being even come up with a piece One student typed in library, was one of the Aditi Rajesh Shah, played into a pair of that's just on one go.” “depressed John Wick participants showing off a research assistant headphones. Luna-Mega said the eating ice cream,” which their academic work. at the SJSU Research “It allows the user software’s developers also Firefly shortly created Szydlowski’s exhibit Foundation, helped to change specific allowed for other uses an image in a matter of showed off his color S z yd l ow s k i c re ate parameters ... It allows from people who are not seconds. organ, a keyboard that improvements for the for the user to be shifting musicians or composers, Raymond Lam, Adobe controls colors and project in JavaScript. these parameters as the “(For) a lot of students trainer and instructional shapes, made using “There are people software is doing its who don't have a music designer at the MLK JavaScript programming. who often visit us, (and) thing,” Luna-Mega said. theory background or library spoke about the JavaScript is a coding they ask us ... ‘What is “It also allows the user to an instrumental music tools SJSU students have language that is primarily the Digital Humanities get a real time notation performance background, access to as a way to create used to create complex Center doing?’ ” Shah of whatever the user is (the program) already art. features for web pages, said. “So we explain (it (doing).” allows them to (make) “I know a lot of people according to a javascript. to) them and what this The program initiates music,” Luna-Mega said. have heard about image info web page. project does.” the sounds to be played “Of course, it needs a model generators, but “This is an idea that’s Christopher Luna- instantaneously and little tweaking, it's not they might not have had been around a long time,” Mega, SJSU assistant transcribed into musical (just going) from A to B an opportunity to try it Szydlowski said. “(For) professor of music notation, according to and you're done (and) you out,” Lam said. “Here at
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The idea of the Digital Humanities center is it connects people with tools or approaches to taking their scholarship, or teaching style and infusing it with a technology that expands its reach or impact.
the Digital Humanity Center, my table here is to help people see it for the first time and experience it.” Lam said that some students are unaware that SJSU provides all its students with the full Adobe Suite, from Photoshop to Premiere Pro. The Digital Humanities Center is one of many places where community members and students can find art. Mune said that the first floor of the MLK library is the space for digital exhibits, but the library also contains other art exhibits on the second and fifth floor. “Right now we’re just starting (and) we have our rolling screens,” Mune said. “In the future, we'll have screens all over the walls, (a) big video wall with sound, so we can do more.” Mune said because San José has a rich cultural history, these art exhibits bring opportunities for community members to show their art and increase research impact. “We hope that within the next year, (we can) really open it up for people to propose different exhibits and to bring people in from all over the community,” Mune said.
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