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2_MAY_2013, Innovative Media Research and Commercialization center 6-8pm. Get out of that chair and immerse yourself! For the first time, this year's annual exhibition of standout New Media projects takes place in our spanking-new IMRC building. Discover how our seniors are already taking advantage of this cutting-edge facility, and learn how mobile apps, immersive projections, and social networks are drawing participants into new connections with nature and real-world communities.
MARCH_2013. The New Media and Intermedia programs will soon have a new faculty member, thanks to a tenure-track position approved by the University of Maine this spring. The good news comes at a time when a number of exciting developments are coming to fruition for the department.
OCTOBER_2012. New Media, Art, and Intermedia students will soon take advantage of a new facility full of cutting-edge tools--quite literally. The new Innovative Media Research and Commercialization Center, or IMRC, features studios for traditional arts as well as a 3d fabrication studio, electronics lab, and high performance computer cluster.
THURSDAY_26_APRIL_2012, Collins Center for the Arts, 7-9pm. New media crawl out of the screen and onto your skin at the 2012 New Media Night, which features light graffiti, tattoo photography, virtual beauty, and digital jewelry. Exhibits on view demonstrate what happens when students mix digital media with live birds, schoolroom lunches, and the 2012 presidential election.
APRIL_2012. 2012 sees the New Media department with a shiny new upgrade to its curriculum, which aims to encourage every student to develop both creative and technical skills. The new curriculum also arms students with an exciting suite of technologies that is increasingly making its way into everything from Web to mobile to game design.
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.
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