Author: Atia Newman
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A Working Prototype
Okay, don’t judge us for this, but please try to remember that we only had enough money to pay for 50 hours of work each for our three professionals. That forced us to be pretty frugal in our prioritization and our team basically donated time when we went back for rescans and edits. Thank goodness…
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Communication Strategies as a Muslim Woman
Karamah is a non-profit organization of Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. This organization was founded by a distinguished lawyer who has been an equal rights advocate for decades, and is a contemporary of Malcolm X. Through a series of connections, they invited me to speak at their winter program for young women. My talk…
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FACSS – SciX Conference 2024
The Great Scientific Exchange! Another wonderful experience and my first trip to North Carolina. The FACSS stands for The Federations of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, and the SciX Conference represents the Great Scientific Exchange, a conference that has been running since 1974. This year marks the 50th year of this international conference at the…
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Scanning @ the Campbell House
Our work has begun! With the tiniest team possible, we picked up our scanning equipment (iPads, smartphones and measuring tools) and jumped headlong into the Digital Interactive Preservation process. Getting animators to work with architects is incredibly fun, particularly when you realize how similar the fields really are. Despite the difference in mediums, it’s clear…
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Where did 2023 go (and most of 2024)??
2023 was the year of internal growth. As much as I’d like a simple external list of wins, I found myself forced to slow down and put in the kind of deep work that must be done in order for true progress to be made.
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The Campbell House @GCVM
A huge shout out to the Genesee Country Village and Museum for their continuous support of the Digital Interactive Preservation Project! With the success of the pilot project, I have now teamed up with Dr. Alissa De Wit-Paul to scan another building and develop a fuller, more architecture-friendly process of scanning an historic site! Scanning…
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Digital Interactive Preservation, a New Chapter!
In a wonderful and much-needed next step: I have teamed up with architect and art historian Dr Alissa De Wit-Paul to put the second step of my preservation process to the test! Dr. De Wit-Paul is an architect and art historian and has been working in the field of sustainable architecture for years. She also…
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Digital Preservation: Promo 2024
Summer of 2024 is off to a great start. My project was featured in a promo video to showcase RIT’s longstanding relationship with the Genesee Country Village and Museum, which then gave me room to request an edit of the clip to help share my idea with more potential partners and funders (fingers crossed). Watch…
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Frank J Romano Endowed Prize
Exciting news continues! I won the Frank J Romano Endowed Prize for innovative use of technology working with students. The Digital Preservation Process has evolved into the Digital Interactive Preservation method, or DIP method. Two reasons for this: one, because the RIT CHIP Research group, led by Dr Juilee Decker and Dr David Messinger has…
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Leadership Panelist
Leadership experiences and preparation: Panel discussion [RIT Faculty in Leadership] This winter I was invited to join a panel of women leaders at this year’s Advance RIT Leadership Summit. By conventional wisdom, a foreign woman working as a professor of animation in a technical institute makes me quite the unlikely leader. However, in the year…