The national eNDowment for the humanities awards $30,000 to the school of media studies at the new school for "Aids quilt touch" |
NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 201- The School of Media Studies at The New School is pleased to announce that it was awarded a Digital Projects for the Public Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for “Narrative Threads: The Creation of Digital Memorialization Applications for the AIDS Memorial Quilt.” This is the second NEH grant awarded in 2014 for the project. The $30,000 grant from the NEH will support collaboration among research designers from the School of Media Studies and the Digital Studio for Public Arts and Humanities at the University of Iowa. This funding builds upon a $321,872 NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant awarded this past July for enhancing digital experiences for AIDS Quilt Touch, an interactive media platform that enables the public to search and browse the Quilt on mobile devices. The National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities by funding top-rated competitive, peer-reviewed proposals examined by panels of independent, external reviewers. At an annual cost of about 50 cents per capita, NEH brings high-quality historical and cultural experiences to large and diverse audiences in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five territories. |
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