Since the opening of the Digital Media Lab in the fall of 2009, Bard Graduate Center has found ever more rigorous and innovative ways of integrating digital media into the academic work of the institution. Perhaps the most important means for displaying that progress has been through the DML salons, which provide opportunities for faculty and students to share their work so that others in the community can see the types of projects being done in the lab and how the lab might serve their own scholarship.

On November 7, two exemplary student projects were featured. First, second-year masters’ students Alyssa Velazquez and Maggie Frick reflected on the development of a WordPress blog for the course, “Curatorial Practice as Experiment,” which culminated in a small student-curated exhibition, Introspective: Contemplations on Curating, at the end of the spring 2016 semester. Clara Boesch (MA, 2016) then discussed her digital Qualifying Paper, “Enshrining Gems of Fashion: A Case Study of John Genin’s Mid-Nineteenth Century Strategies of Commercial Display,” which was the second digital QP completed at Bard Graduate Center. Both presentations offered insights on the use of digital tools in academia and allowed for discussion on some of the challenges and successes encountered by the presenters during the development of their projects.