Barnard College has a nationally recognized Department of Dance, and library administrators in collaboration with faculty piloted media and digital tools for dance research, performance, and composition. This presentation will highlight case studies on using AR/VR and how it can offer innovative methods of instruction in the performing arts. Jennifer Brown will also discuss and highlight Barnard's Design Center.
Melanie Hibbert is the Director of Instructional Media and Technology and the Media Center at Barnard College. She has a doctorate in education from Columbia University, and has worked extensively around education, media production, and learning from technology.
Jennifer Brown is the Design & Technologies Librarian at Barnard Library’s Design Center. Her librarianship is driven by critical frameworks like design justice and speculative futuring, both of which encourage embedding equity and inclusion throughout one's design process. She holds an M.S. in Information from the University of Michigan and a B.A. in Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.
MCTL's Design Center - Jennifer Brown
MCTL's Design Center is a makerspace and design studio located at Milstein Center at Barnard College
- Studio offers open studio hours, 1-on-1 consultations, and workshops
- Includes a safety orientation and community agreement
- Curriculum integrations are possible
What's Next for the Design Center?
- Project grants
- Artist/hacker in residence
- Staff growth
Dance Magic Dance & 360/VR Video Dance Pilot - Melanie Hibbert
- Ricoh Theta 360 cameras recorded various genres of dance
- Feedback
- Choreographer had new insights from footage
- Affordable
- Ability for learning dance, inclusivity
- Drawbacks: motion sickness, isolation
Barnard Augmented App
- Site specific dance composition course
- App scanned archival image and user sees site specific dancing on phone
- Feedback
- Ability to link archives, called attention to locations, link inaccessible cultural heritage
- Drawbacks - how to choreograph for iPhone, it's resource-intensive
