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- Co-create with nature in new Life Art class (Oct 2009)
- NMD295 Design Patterns for New Media in Spr 2010 (Oct 2009)
- Need advising help? Check out these links! (Mar 2009)
- NMD430 Contagious Media in Fall 2009 (Mar 2009)
- NMD 430 Indigenous Media in Spr 2009 (Oct 2008)
- JavaScript your world with NMD305! (Oct 2008)
- How to get a Degree Audit (Apr 2006)
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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.
Italian curator Laura Barreca contrasts the long view of traditional art history and conservation with the brief lifespan of contemporary artistic media, asking how works in ephemeral media should be preserved for the future in the light of controversies such as the restoration of the Sistine Chapel.
OCTOBER_2009. The Pool, an online collaborative environment created by Still Water, has earned a headline story in Wired magazine, a feature in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and a demonstration at Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society. This term The Pool has become even more crowded, as students from the University of California at Santa Cruz join U-Me classes in using this unusual software to bounce ideas off each other and receive feedback across the two campuses.
SEPTEMBER_2009. Conjunction, the latest "Without Borders" exhibition explores the potential of cross-artist pollination by showcasing collaborations between creators on and off campus. The reception takes place this Thursday 9 September from 5:30 to 7pm.
JUNE_2009. The New Media Department of the University of Maine is the lead applicant on a 3.69 million dollar bond just approved to construct a new media incubator that will unite innovation, communication, and media in a single building.
8_MAY_2009. Artist, scholar, and director of the New Media Department Owen Smith has been awarded the Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award, one of the University of Maine's top honors.
MAY_2009. What if you could pick breakfast on the way to class? LongGreenHouse sponsors a Green Design charette that re-imagines the University of Maine campus as an edible food forest. Rugby fields never tasted so good.
29_APRIL_2009. From "Franimation" to "Project Fog," from teenage tattoos to Passamaquoddy parables, from expressive dance to virtual performers--all are on view at this year's Capstone Night.