We are happy to report that You Online: Developing Your Online Academic Presence led by Michael Mandiberg is still on for Wednesday, November 7, 11:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. despite the disruptions of the Hurricane Sandy disaster. The lecture and workshop will take place at the Flom Auditorium of the Walsh Library at Fordham Rose Hill.

Professor Michael Mandiberg

Michael Mandiberg is a interdisciplinary artist, designer and scholar whose work employs each of these methodologies, in part to investigate the significance of their overlap. He creates conceptual art projects, design objects, and publications that explore themes that include environmentalism, systems of exchange, pedagogy, software art, collaboration, Free Culture, and appropriation. Among his projects: He sold all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, made perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and created Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy online at TheRealCosts.com. He is co-author of Digital Foundations Collaborative Futures and the editor of The Social Media Reader.

A recipient of residencies and commissions from Eyebeam, Rhizome.org, and Turbulence.org, his work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Ars Electronica, ZKM, and Transmediale. A former Senior Fellow at Eyebeam, he is currently Director of the New York Arts Practicum, Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY; and a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn. His work lives at Mandiberg.com

Program Details: This faculty and graduate student development program will have two parts.  Part I is an hour-long presentation by Professor Mandiberg on the importance of cultivating an online presence and ways to establish one, including the steps for building a basic website using WordPress. This part will be held in Flom Auditorium of Walsh Library and open to anyone in the Fordham community and their guests. Part II will be a hands-on workshop for thirty graduate students and faculty members. Due to the hands-on nature of this workshop, space is limited and pre-registration for the workshop section was required. Participants will learn to create pages and posts in WordPress, and they will leave with a working site framework. Lunch will be served to the thirty workshop participants.

This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Fordham Graduate Student Digital Humanities Group, the Digital Humanities Working Group with support from the Arts and Sciences Deans of Fordham University, the Medieval Studies Program, the American Studies Program, and the Department of Communications and Media Studies, the Department of English, the Department of History, the Department of Theology, and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.