Media – Kimon Keramidas

Wednesday, October 7
New York City

Digital Content
Innovation and Strategy

Bard Granduate Center

What I Do

ServicesServices

Innovation

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Content Strategy

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Digital Humanities

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Creative Direction

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Collaboration

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Projects

Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room Interactive
2025
Digital Projects, Exhibitions
The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads
2019
Exhibitions, Publications
The Interface Experience: A User’s Guide
2026
Exhibitions, Publications
Visualizing 19th-Century New York
2014
Digital Projects, Exhibitions, Publications, Websites

Insights and News

GC ITP, Workshops/Lectures
Planning and Completing A Project Pt. II – CUNY GC ITP Workshop Series
February 22, 2021
News
Cancelled Trip to St. Petersburg, Russia
March 6, 2020
News
UAE Visit January 2020
February 15, 2020

Make Contact

kimon@keramidas.com

Kimon Keramidas

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The Interface Experience: 40 Years of Personal Computing

Promo Video

Video produced by Engadget

Technorama Interview

Talks and Presentations

Digital Frontiers 2016

“Of Institutions, Initiatives, and the Importance of Regional Academic
Communities: Building NYCDH” with Alex Gil

NYU DH Showcase 2016

Presentation on Object-Oriented Pedagogy as part of What is
Digital Humanities? panel. (starts at 11:00)

MCN 2014

Presentation as part of “User Experience: Towards a
Grand Unified Theory of Content” panel. (starts at 1:01:30)

Rutgers-Camden

“Envisioning Digital Studies: Towards a Humane Cyberinfrastructure”
talk given to Rutgers-Camden faculty, staff, and students.

Bard Graduate Center Symposia

Hosting and panel moderation of “Experiencing the Interface” symposium at Bard Graduate Center.

Hosting, presentation, and panel moderation of “Digital Interpretation: Screens and Devices as Didactic Media” symposium.

Hosting of “Digital Interpretation: Screens and Devices as Didactic Media” symposium.

Presentation during “Digital Interpretation: Screens and Devices as Didactic Media” symposium.

Panel moderation of “Digital Interpretation: Screens and Devices as Didactic Media” symposium.

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Insights and News

GC ITP, Workshops/Lectures
Planning and Completing A Project Pt. II – CUNY GC ITP Workshop Series
February 22, 2021
News
Cancelled Trip to St. Petersburg, Russia
March 6, 2020
News
UAE Visit January 2020
February 15, 2020
Workshops/Lectures
Planning and Completing A Project – CUNY GC ITP Workshop Series
September 17, 2018

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Let’s build together

kimon@keramidas.com

(917) 449-0568

Tell us about your project

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Bespoke solutions

“Working with Company Name was an absolute pleasure. They went above and beyond to ensure our digital marketing campaign was a success, driving significant engagement and sales. Their team is not just skilled but genuinely passionate about what they do.”

Laure Anderson

CEO of theo

Threads and Knots

Brand Identity

Visual Identity
Icon systems
Photo & Video

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Digital Marketing

Information diagrams
Illustrations
Email Marketing

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Content Strategy

Infographics
Researching
Content Management
Copywriting

Swirling Vortex

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E-commerce

Platform Development
Payment Gateway
Mobile-Optimized
SEO & Content Marketing

Gradient Bliss

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App Development

Native Development
Prototyping
User Experience
Optimization
Maintenance & Support

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Get in touchGet in touch

Kimon Keramidas is a digital content and systems specialist, academic, cultural heritage professional, and thought leader. He has over twenty years of experience bringing innovation to and collaborating with organizations around the world to help them tell their stories, reach their audiences, and achieve their goals.

Kimon is currently Head of Digital Content and Strategy at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, which promotes understanding of the ideas, cultures, and art of Himalayan regions. At the Rubin Kimon, is responsible for crafting an intentional storytelling-driven digital visitor experience and developing a digital content strategy, editorial mission, and voice for the museum. He leads the Editorial and Digital Content team and works collaboratively with partner institutions and departments across the museum to develop written, audio, video, and interactive content including the Webby award-winning AWAKEN podcast, video series collaboration with Smarthistory, Spiral magazine, audio guides, image annotations, exhibition interactives, and a wide range of other multimedia projects.

Kimon recently led a comprehensive redesign of the Rubin’s website. This redesign included the development of a new multimedia content stream called Spiral, developed out of our existing magazine, a complete reimagining of the museum’s online collection, new branding, and complex design schemas that bring together collection, exhibitions, collaborations, and editorial content.

Kimon also oversaw the development of the digital portion of Project Himalayan Art, the Rubin’s transmedia project that includes a publication, traveling exhibition, and digital platform for students, educators, and the public to learn about Himalayan art and culture. Kimon continues to lead development of content and oversee design changes for the digital platform, which includes object essays, a digital exhibition, thematic essays, and maps that use rich text, audio, video, geolocation, and interactive annotation materials.

Before the Rubin, Kimon was an Associate Professor of Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement and Affiliated Faculty in the International Relations and Integrated Design and Media programs at NYU and Assistant Professor and Director of the Digital Media Lab at the Bard Graduate Center.

Kimon’s research and pedagogy take place at the intersection of media and technology studies, social engagement, cultural history, and digital humanities. Through the lenses of political economy and the sociology of culture, Kimon approaches media and technology from an interdisciplinary perspective that unpacks complex micro-and macro-scale concerns in a way that makes the impact of technology on our lives more apparent at the global, local, and personal levels. The goal of this work is to encourage individuals to develop a more comprehensive literacy of how the hardware and software experiences of our digital culture influence the ways in which we work, play, learn and communicate as a society.

Kimon’s research and teaching consider digital tools not only as objects of study but also as a means for performing research and scholarship. He does through a practice-based approach which involves projects and collaborations to bring academic study into real-world situations. In this mode, he helped establish the BGC as a leader in digital initiatives in the scholarship of material culture and interactive exhibition design. He is active in the fields of digital humanities and interactive technology and pedagogy and has taught courses in digital humanities, interface design, media and materiality, artifacts in the age of new media, digital information fluency, and theatre design, performance and technology at the NYU, the Bard Graduate Center, Marymount Manhattan College, the CUNY Online Baccalaureate, and The Cooper Union.

As a curator, Kimon completed The Interface Experience: Forty Years of Personal Computing while at the Bard Graduate Center. This transmediated exhibition/book/digital experience focused on some of the most ubiquitous objects in the history of personal computing, including the Commodore 64, Macintosh, Palm Pilot, and iPad. Tactile and interactive displays offered visitors a unique opportunity to gain a better understanding of the history of the design and material experience of computers, while the website provided expanded information aimed at stimulating personal questions about how interaction with these devices has influenced each of our lives. The project’s book won the Innovation in Print Design award from the American Alliance of Museums.

Kimon’s was also co-curator of the digital exhibition The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads. This digital global art history project investigated the story of the Sogdians, a Central Asian people from the Middle Ages who helped solidify what we today call the Silk Roads. In the exhibition, interactive maps, 3-D models of metalwork objects, photographs of archaeological sites, and international scholarship reveal new details about these forgotten people.

Leadership

Co-founder, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Co-founder, New York City Digital Humanities
Co-director, International DH Research Center at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia,
Co-director, OutHistory, org
Director of Digital, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
Associate Director, XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s Program, NYU

Collaborations

Organizations

Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York Public Library
State Hermitage in St. Petersburg
University of Leicester
NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Zayed University, UAE

Agencies

Google Arts & Culture
Bloomberg Connects
Smarthistory
CHIPS
Sound Made Public
SandenWolff

Bard Granduate Center