Spaces Speak: Archives, Architecture, and Audio Augmented Reality

IMA 78014: Spaces Speak: Archives, Architecture, and Audio Augmented Reality

Fall 2024, Thursday 10 am to 12:50 pm

Room: 543 Hunter North

Course website: https://www.andrewdemirjian.com/spaces

Instructor: Andrew Demirjian

Office: 401-C Hunter North
Office hours:

Monday 1:30 – 3:30 pm (via Zoom)

Thursday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm

and by appointment

Email: ademirji@hunter.cuny.edu

This is the revised with our guest speaker dates and new readings: Syllabus

Protesters face police officers in riot gear during a demonstration outside a government building, with palm trees and a stone building in the background.
Large crowd of people marching in a protest, many holding umbrellas and Puerto Rican flags, on a city street with buildings and trees in the background.

Readings:

The Dream of Puerto Rican Independence

Acid Communism

The House that Archives Built

Archives Have the Power to Boost Marginalized Voices

La Brega, An Encyclopedia of Betrayal

Fighting Black Power-New Left coalitions: Covert FBI Media Campaigns and American Cultural Discourse (1967 - 1971)

Augmenting Reality: The Markers, Memories, and Meanings Behind Today’s AR

Affective Atmospheres by Ben Anderson

Reading Responses:

Reading Response #1

Reading Response #5 + programming exercises for Oct. 17th

Some additional NLP programming files:

Find rhymes in a text using rhyming dictionary

Find rhymes only within a text

Research Presentation Documents:

Research Presentation #1

A woman with glasses has her mouth covered with tape that says 'DESPEDIDO.' She is wearing a bandana around her neck with some text, and a jacket. The background shows other people, suggesting a protest or demonstration.
A scanned black-and-white newspaper page from The New York Times, dated Wednesday, November 11, 1970, featuring an article titled "Young Women Find a Place in High Command of Young Lords" by Judy Klemserud. The page includes photos of women, their names, and quotes, with segments of the article visible.

Class Slides and Resources

Class 1 Slides

Class 2 Slides (Cristina’s slides from CENTRO)

Class 4 Slides

Class 6 Programming and Tutorial movie links

Class 6 Young-Lords-Reader-ch1-and2 for computer programming analysis

Class 6 slides

Class 7 slides

Class 12 slides - Sound as Material - Voice as Presence

Location List as of Dec. 12th

Class 14 slides - Affective Atmospheres

Additional Resourses

COINTELPRO files on Puerto Rican activists

NYPD Surveillance Files

Bomba Music PBS short doc

WBAI audio links

Juan Gonzalez FBI and NYPD files from CENTRO

Full collection of Palante newspapers

Johanna resources including WBAI music piece, The People are Rising and Women of the Colonies a radio broadcast of four female YLO members from April of 1970.

Topic List for Context recordings

NYC Municipal finding guide for Handschiu

Bomba drum loops

Google Drive for Final Project Audio

Place ‘context audio’ segments here, this is the topic list

Municipal archive files on the Young Lords (from Rossy)

Children and adults participating in a protest march, holding a large banner that reads "For a Bicentennial without Colonies, Freedom for Oppressed Nations, Equality for All!" in black and white.