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17_APRIL_2008. Have you ever...
This semester, new media professor Raphael Diluzio brings visiting artists from around the world via the web, iChat, and iTunes;--an exploration in time-based design through iPodU (iPod University). Each week students meet via video chat and lectures is recorded and uploaded for everyone on iTunes to see. Innovating education through portable lectures creates new dynamics in the new media world as well as a shift in educational paradigms.
1_APRIL_2008. What could be more appealing to a Harry Potter fan than cozying up with The Deathly Hallows? If the 300,000 users of Tim Spalding's LibraryThing are any indication, book fans are just as enamored of discovering other readers and their favorite books. Spalding gives U-Me faculty and students a look under the cover at his quickly growing online community.
MARCH_24-26_2008. Today's headlines seem to jump from the nanoscale of stem cells and gene sequencing to the global scale of international politics and climate change. Here to bridge that gap are intermedia researchers Craig Dietrich and Vanessa Vobis, whose innovative projects help connect the dots between local environments and global imperatives--from dust mites to presidential candidates, from Aboriginal images to the World Cup.
SPRING_2008. Three genre defying artists come to UMaine to lecture about art, alternative distribution, and crossing boundaries between traditional media.
FEBRUARY_2008. Last fall Permaculture students at Still Water's LongGreenHouse erected a greenhouse, coldframe, and swaled gardens. This term faculty and students are working with Native elders to explore the role ceremony plays in connecting people to the land. The results will be showcased in exhibitions and conferences at Colgate and Cambridge Universities that look at how indigenous hands can twist digital tools.
12_FEBRUARY_2008. Before jodi, there was Giotto. U-Me historian Michael Grillo believes the digital era has no lock on the creative misuse of technology, and his Renaissance New Media class sets out to prove it. Matt Leavitt interviews Grillo to find out why the influence of digital media on today's artists has a precedent in the influence of optics on fifteenth-century painting.
Australian curator Sarah Last and English audio artist Dave Burraston are no strangers to working outside the box. Last helped artist Alan Lamb string wire a quarter-mile across the Australian desert to create resonant frequencies you can hear without amplification. Burraston generates music based on fractals and artificial life algorithms. Beginning Friday 9 November, Last and Burraston present their work and meet with students as part of their 2007 Still Water Research Fellowship.
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