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NOVEMBER_2011. New Media students under the tutelage of Bill Kuykendall and Joline Blais have won three of the coveted Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Fellowships for 2011-12 at the University of Maine. The projects honored include a narrative based on the Birdsacre Wildlife Sanctuary, a memory network for Swan's Island, and an alternative reality game for gardeners called GIY (Grow It Yourself).
SEPTEMBER_26-29, 2011. Can a self-published author of a Kindle novel make it to the New York Times bestseller list? Can a small-town archive in Lubec or Lincoln share their history online without in-house digital staff of their own? Can Twitter unseat despots in Libya and galvanize guerilla gardeners in Los Angeles? Digital Humanities Week 2011 answers these questions and more for students and academics wondering how their workplace and backyards might be changed by new media.
SEPTEMBER_2011. Larry Latour has a penchant for bringing big ideas in computing to learners of all ages. This newly appointed chair of the University of Maine New Media Department has worked with the MIT Media Lab and Santa Fe Institute to teach heady concepts like software re-use and complexity theory to everyone from graduate students to elementary school kids. An accomplished folk musician, Latour has already demonstrated his enthusiasm for working with New Media faculty and students.
SEPTEMBER_2011. You'll never know whether you see the Mona Lisa differently than your roommate sees it. But you can be sure you'll each see the Variable Museum differently, because this work in Augmented Reality is built that way. The Variable Museum is one of a number of intermedia pieces on view in Lord Hall for Without Borders VIII: Breaking Ground, whose closing reception takes place on Thursday 15 September from 5:30 to 7:30pm.
APRIL_19_2011. Two New Media projects that won first and second place at the 2011 Undergraduate Research and Academic Showcase will be on view at this year's Capstone Night. The event features twenty innovative senior projects focusing on everything from iPads to indie music to ice-fishing.
SEPTEMBER_2010. Percussive performers and historical predecessors join the newest crop of MFAs in Without Borders VII, an exhibition celebrating all things intermedia.
"Open Your Eyes," the theme of the 2010 New Media Capstone Night, features innovative computer games, new business models, augmented reality, and more. Held in Lord Hall from 4 to 6pm on Wednesday 28 April (Maine Day), this event showcases 35 senior projects that reveal or transform what we take in with our eyes, ears, and even taste buds.
7_DECEMBER_2009. Perhaps you've seen them: maple leaves scattered through the Union imprinted with a url; students walking by the library freezing in their tracks; a "Divorce Photographer" who preserves that special moment in which a couple decides to call it quits. On Monday 7 Dec from 5-7pm, a Contagious Idea Expo demonstrates techniques for propagating ideas virally, and unveils a new social network, NMDnet, designed to supercharge the circulation of ideas among the U-Me New Media community.
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