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Joline Blais

"Talking drums can't be heard farther than you can walk."

Joline Blais
New Media Program
5713 Chadbourne Hall
The University of Maine
Orono, ME 04469-5713
tel 207 581-4486
fax 207 581-4357

joline.blaisATumit.maine.edu

http://www.still-water.net/

Courses:

NMD 203 Creative Hypertext
NMD 303 Digital Storytelling
NMD 206 Project Design Lab
IMD 520 LifeArt

B I O

Joline Blais, Associate Professor of New Media at UMaine, co-directs Still Water, and co-founded LongGreenHouse. Her book At the Edge of Art (2006) investigates how new media art puts the power of networks and distributed creativity into the hands of ordinary citizens in a variety of non-art contexts.

Blais' publications and creative work explore the overlap of digital culture, indigenous culture and permaculture. LongGreenHouse (2007-2011) weaves the Wabanaki Longhouse, permaculture gardens, and networked collaboration into a hybrid "communiversity." This cross-cultural braid articulates tribal and networked alternatives to our hierarchic (and failing) economic and political structures, and seeds the re-emergence of the 'commons' in multi-age learning
communities. She has been expanding this work from the university
to community contexts as a partner and member Belfast Cohousing and Ecovillage, and as a member of Orono and Belfast Transition Town Initiatives.

Blais' Fair eTalesand her courses in creative hypertext and digital narrative explore alternative narrative structures.