http://newmedia.umaine.edu/ New Media Department at the University of Maine. University of Maine. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=906 JULY_2008. More people than ever will be able to access and contribute to academic research and development, thanks to tools built by Still Water faculty and Fellows to help creative thinkers share their work. Recently showcased at Harvard's Berkman Center, in the Chronicle of Higher Education, and soon to appear in Leonardo magazine, these new networks may change the way creative and scholarly research is recognized by universities across the world. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=905 JUNE_2008. Over forty authors from the National Poetry Foundation's conference on poetry of the seventies have published their work using a new Still Water tool that reveals connections among different peoples' writing. Who knew that "1973" and "John Ashbery" were on so many poets' minds? ThoughtMesh did. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=903 Seriously, Funny, the fifth iteration of the annual series, Without Borders involving UMaine Intermedia MFA graduate students as well as artists from around the country presents a wide range of work that is a unique melding of culture, art, and technology. The show opens August 22nd and runs through September 26th. An opening reception for artists and the public, and a performance by artist and musician Jeremy Boyle is scheduled Friday, September 12th, from 5-7 p.m. at the Lord Hall Gallery. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=902 17_APRIL_2008. Have you ever... Navigated an animation with your palm? Steered an underwater robot from the Web? Pedaled a guitar's stomp box without your foot? If you were at the 2008 New Media Capstone Night in DPC, you might have done all this and more. On display were the culminating projects of the latest class of graduating New Media majors, from child-based recycling initiatives to audience-produced films to spiritual social networks. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=901 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. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=900 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. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=899 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. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=895 SPRING_2008. Three genre defying artists come to UMaine to lecture about art, alternative distribution, and crossing boundaries between traditional media. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=892 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. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=890 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. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=889 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. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=874 16_OCTOBER_2007. Finding scholarly writing online used to be a shot in the dark; an academic paper on Cezanne's figure paintings, for example, is unlikely to rank high on a Google search for "nude bathers." Last week, however, Still Water launched a new tool designed to overturn this "lottery" approach by meshing the thoughts of writers from across the Web. Called ThoughtMesh, this software creates clouds of smart keywords that connect excerpts of essays published on different Web sites. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=873 SEPTEMBER_2007. Your average Maine gardener might not plan to harvest lettuce in January, but then Julia and Charles Yelton aren't your average Maine gardeners. The ecological movement they have helped to disseminate, Permaculture, teaches techniques for capturing sunlight, redirecting streams, and reusing all the by-products of human households to sustain life in all its forms. The Yeltons have been named 2007 Still Water Fellows, and they have already begun re-envisioning the campus landscape according to Permaculture principles. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=864 WEDNESDAY_12_SEPTEMBER_2007. Art World ubergeek Cory Arcangel, a contributor to the exhibition Without Borders IV, discusses his work with U-Me faculty and students in a videoconference at 1pm in 200 Lord Hall. Best known for an eclectic aesthetic encompassing everything from Domino's Pizza to Rock 'n Roll to hacked Nintendo cartridges, Arcangel reaches deep into the grab-bag of pop culture and pulls out diamonds in the raw. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/feature.php?id=863 UMaine Contemporary Art Exhibition ‘Without Borders’ Opens "Without Borders IV: Play, Fast Forward, Rewind," the fourth in a series of annual exhibits involving UMaine art and new media students, and currently on display at the Lord Hall art gallery, presents a wide range of work that is a unique melding of culture, art and technology. The show runs Aug. 17 through Sept. 28....