Environmental Psychology student Aga Skorupka is preparing a 3d simulation of one of the Graduate Center building floors, aiming at revealing particular characteristics of built environments that influence the process of wayfinding, or how people find their way in certain environments.

Using a combination of real-time audio processing and 3D modeling software, music student Zachary Seldess will create virtual 3D sound environments that, via a local area network (LAN), can be experienced and altered in real-time simultaneously by several users.

Artistic Exchange: A Timeline of 16th Century Flanders, Spain, and Latin America will be a dynamic timeline exploring 16th century art historical connections between Flanders, Spain, and Colonial Latin America and is currently in its preliminary stages of development. This project will utilize MIT's open source tool, SIMILE Timeline, to provide a broad visual picture of the historical period.

Using the Max/MSP/Jitter programming environment, Music Composition student Nathan Bowen hopes to change the concert audience experience by allowing audience members to help determine the outcome of the performance. Dividing the audience into two teams, each team will be assigned the task to get their video game character to cross the finish line first and prevent the other team from gaining ground.

Effluvium is a musical exploration of the phenomenon that occurs when a listener's ear mechanism transitions between interpreting its input as several higher frequencies and a single low frequency. At the New Media Lab, music composition student Paul Riker will reconstruct Effluvium with dynamic video using MAX/MSP/Jitter to create a visual 3-D representation in real-time.

The New Media Lab project Finding the War: Database Technology and Historical Narrative is an experiment in research methodologies. How might history look if we were able to break it up into constituent parts, then rearrange it any way we like? CUNY doctoral student David Parsons uses database software (primarily FileMaker Pro) to explore new ways in which technology can assist with the research, cataloging, and analysis of historical data.

In this research project, Rose White, Sociology, plans to combine her ongoing fieldwork on hacker spaces in the US and Germany, web-based materials posted by individual hacker collectives, and links to academic papers on related phenomena. By collecting these resources on a single website, she hopes to bring together what's going on globally, making it accessible to both academics and people in the movement, while also situating the hacker space movement in a larger (sociologically and historically grounded) social movement perspective.

This project examines an ongoing land conflict in the small town of Caledonia, Ontario, Canada. The conflict centers on land that was granted to the Six Nations Confederacy in 1784. Today, the Canadian government and the Six Nations Confederacy both make vastly different claims regarding the ownership of this land. Using GIS mapping techniques, Flash software, and database methodology, this project will provide an online, interactive exploration of this conflict.

Lead by Professor Joan Greenbaum and doctoral candidate Gregory Donovan, this project aims to engage the New Media Lab community as participants in the process of understanding how ideas bud, build, bewilder and change. The 'NML Research Blog' is a virtual space where this exploration can take place.

Many social service programs for dispossessed populations are underutilized because potential clients are unaware of numerous available resources. Marcos Tejeda, Sociology, aims to provide a comprehensive listing of city organizations, including adult and youth homeless organizations, free health clinics, detoxification and substance abuse treatment programs, soup kitchens, and mental health services.

Phylo explores the origins of contemporary philosophy by looking at historical relationships between individuals, institutions, and ideas. Doctoral candidates David Morrow and Chris Alen Sula combine data visualization tools with a digital archive of dissertation information, faculty appointments, and publication metadata. The result is a free, open-access tool that gives important context to philosophical ideas.

To make sense of the legacy of the 1960s, the "Redefining the Hippies" website will guide users through the period while allowing them to shape this social and cultural history project. They will be able to explore an interactive timeline that provides an overview of the events of the era, upload photos and other visual content, post accounts of their experiences, and comment on those of others.

Renegade Poetic America will provide a comprehensive database, resource center, and digital exhibition for the letters of two American poets, Edward Dorn and Amiri Baraka. With integrated annotations, links to sound, image, and word, and dynamic timelines, this website will offer an in-depth look at complicated American lives, cultures, and histories.

In The Lost Museum, intrepid visitors can explore a virtual reconstruction of legendary showman P. T. Barnum's American Museum and investigate the mystery of who burned down this NYC landmark in 1865. Educators, students, and history enthusiasts can explore a rich archive of historical documents and present-day scholarship that reveals the marvels and scandals surrounding Barnum and his museum, as well as the social, political, and cultural history of the mid-nineteenth century city.

The history of New York City from Dutch settlement to the present is the focus of this website that combines informative exhibits, incisive primary documents, interactive graphics, and educational curricula to uncover the many and varied layers of the city's past. Working with the collection of the Seymour B. Durst Old York Library and Reading Room, two GC History students produce this website, which has become a favorite on-line source for NYC history.

A huge number of free 3-D models can be found on various web sites. Text-based search engines provide helpful information only if the models are annotated with descriptive keywords but it can be difficult to describe some objects (i.e machine parts). Computer Science student Ilknur Icke will create a site that provides internet users with a free resource for conducting example-based queries that would direct them to the site of the actual 3-D model.

This web exhibit by Art History student Elizabeth Watson lets visitors view the work of architect Julio Vilamajó's landmark buildings in 1930s and 1940s Montevideo, Uruguay.

Employing methods from Statistical Physics and using computer simulation, Physics student Huafeng Xie studies complex networks drawn from a wide range of systems such as the World Wide Web, protein interactions, and citations of scientific articles, trying to understand the structure, dynamics, and revolutionary history of these systems.

In March 2002 the New Media Lab organized CUNY WIRED!, an event demonstrating the innovative ways City University of New York students and faculty create and use new media across disciplines. This website highlights the people, projects, and themes featured in the one-day conference.

This website explores technical, social, and affective issues raised by cyber- pets and other new forms of (virtual) life and virtual-bodies. Developed as part of Laura Fantone's Sociology dissertation, this study looks at the forms, functions, and politics of "cyber life-auto-affection."

During three weeks in May 1859, more than 12,000 people converged on a West 10th Street building in NYC to view Frederic Church's new painting, Heart of the Andes. This interactive website by Art History student Ellen La Forge examines the painting, the artist, and the times in which the sensation of this exhibition occurred.

The Media2Politic Project is a sociocultural experiment which will attempt to make correlations between images and values in contemporary society. This project asks the question, given a cachet of images and a cachet of value-laden words, will demographic patterns emerge if respondents are asked to connect the images with the words that most describe them?

This project focuses on understanding how materially disadvantaged African-American adolescents and their mothers develop social/critical consciousness of the "achievement gap." First conducted as a participatory oral history project, Social Personality Psychology student Monique Guishard designed the website as a gift to the organization, Mothers on the Move, during an internship at the New Media Lab.

Combining oral history and new media, this website is part of Beth Counihan's English dissertation (completed 2005) that investigates literacy development among participants in a lower Manhattan senior center. Via online exhibits, two participants in a memoir writing workshop at Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town learned to use the Internet and shared their experiences of life in New York from 1939 to the present.

Hope Hartman, City College and Graduate Center professor of Instructional Psychology, is creating a MultiUser Virtual Environment (MUVE) on theories of educational psychology. This "metaenvironment" will consist of 3-D rooms with interactivity and animations to illustrate theories and help learners experience them as a way of learning about them.

Four high school students from Benjamin Banneker Academy for Community Development in Brooklyn are partnering with graduate students on this research project to utilize digital video production as a research methodology. It examines attitudes regarding recent renovations to the Brooklyn Children's Museum and will engage young people in understanding how their peers understand and interact in a museum environment.

This online resource by Theater student Edmund Lingan (graduated 2005) broadens our understanding of religious theatre and performance by studying groups that are generally labeled as "religious cults." The study of "New Religious Movements" (NRM) reveals the diversity of religious performances, offering resources useful to scholars in a range of disciplines.

Part of a larger Web-based project on nineteenth-century photography and history in Brazil, this project by Art History student Fernando Azevedo focuses on the work of the Brazilian photographer Marc Ferrez and, more specifically, on his photographs of Rio de Janeiro between 1860 and 1910.

This research and CD-ROM project examines the production and performance of "embodied knowledges"—delineating how dance educators provoke critical consciousness through African-derived dance. The data collected for Political Movements, including digital video footage and photographs of dance performances, were an integral part of Rosemarie Roberts' Social Personality Psychology dissertation (completed 2005).

Sociology student Laura Fantone (completed 2005) produced this documentary on women and resistance in Tuscany, from World War Two to the present. Four self-described "regular women" connect their everyday lives to recent Italian history, from the resistance to fascism, to the feminist movement, to freedom of speech and contemporary global wars.

Roots was produced by Art History student Leeann Pomplas-Bruening at the New Media Lab for a major NYC financial institution. The 3-D visualization of the stock market was used as part of a multimedia installation at the institution's training headquarters.

Scientists in all disciplines have created thousands of still images and animations on computers. There also are thousands of uncompiled scientific photographs, films, audio files, and software applications. John Jay College Mathematics instructor Gary Welz aims to create an online digital library for the storage and distribution of rich media for scientific professionals.

Working across disciplines with a "Neo-Baroque" conception of inter-arts unity, Music Composition student Peter Kirn develops techniques for integrating physical computing, digital multimedia, and interactive performance. Building on music as the formal ordering of events in time, he creates a toolkit of approaches to media and performance.

StreamingCulture© adds video and audio to cultural organization websites—bringing movement, sound, the action of art itself to the Internet. Preserving and disseminating a unique record of performance, the project is a collaboration with The Graduate Center.

Physics student Lei Zhou uses cellular automata techniques and 3-D animations and simulations to depict and comprehend gridlock and to find possible strategies to ameliorate this urban traffic problem.

High-temperature superconducting materials allow for resistanceless flow of electricity below a certain temperature and have many practical applications in power generation and transmission, medical devices, communications, and computers. Incorporated into Yuri Artemov's Physics dissertation (completed 2005), 3-D animations and visualizations of the tornado-like swirl of electrons illuminate the nature of superconductors and ways to improve their construction.

At certain frequencies, rhythm and pitch become one. It is possible to associate light and sound in similar ways. This project explores dialogues across the boundary between light and sound, art and music, in the spaces between performers.