The University of Maine is poised to launch an innovative graduate program in digital curation, beginning September 2012. The online, 18-credit curriculum aims to train anyone who works with digitized or born-digital items to make them accessible and meaningful to present and future generations.
Tags: class, digital humanities, distance learning, education, graduate, memory, orono, preservation, University of Maine, variable media
For the past several years, Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais has been working with two dozen other families to found Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage. Now the prototype home for this self-developed, self-financed community on the coast of Maine has been declared 2011 Project of the Year by the US Green Building Council.
Tags: architecture, Belfast, cohousing, ecovillage, GreenHouse, press, recognition, sharing, Still Water, sustainability
Still Water’s co-directors are in the news this month in articles about an online song-and-story sampler and crowdfunding for indie movie projects.
Tags: economics, Lewiston, memory, movie, network, New Media, orono, press, sharing, Still Water, University of Maine
Richard Rinehart, co-author with Still Water’s Jon Ippolito of the forthcoming MIT book New Media and Social Memory, presents conclusions from the book at the POCOS/HATII symposium on Software Art in Glasgow on 11 October.
Tags: art, europe, New Media and Social Memory, presentation, preservation, publication, software, Still Water, variable media
To coincide with Digital Humanities Week 2011, Joline Blais joins permaculture experts Julia and Charles Yelton, social media hackademic Craig Dietrich, Rural Maine Partners’ Claudia Lowd, and members of the Wabanaki community in hosting “Social Media and Sustainability” at LongGreenHouse, a clearinghouse for sustainable culture on the edge of the U-Me campus.
Tags: education, gardening, GreenHouse, LongHouse, orono, permaculture, presentation, sharing, Still Water, sustainability, University of Maine, Wabanaki, Wassookeag
Photo archivists and Twitter sociologists, guerilla gardeners and best-selling Kindle authors descend on Orono, Maine for the 2011 Digital Humanities Week.
Tags: digital humanities, education, network, New Media, orono, presentation, preservation, sharing, software, Still Water, University of Maine, variable media
For the last several years, Still Water Co-Directors Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito have been working with 20 other families to found an ecovillage on the coast of Maine. Now Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage has won the National Resource Council of Maine’s 2011 People’s Choice Award “for exceptional efforts and tireless work to establish a model environmentally sustainable, affordable, multi-generational cohousing community.”
Tags: award, Belfast, ecovillage, GreenHouse, Still Water, sustainability
Still Water‘s archival tools were featured in a keynote at the Compatible Data conference organized by Micki McGee at Fordham University in New York on 24 September. This conference gathered data mavens from the New York Public Library, Columbia and Brown universities, and other prominent collections with the goal of finding a metadata Esperanto in the current Tower of Babel of competing standards.
Tags: Forging the Future, Metaserver, network, New York City, presentation, Scalar, sharing, software, Still Water, Thoughtmesh, variable media
Drawing on the forthcoming book New Media and Social Memory co-authored with Richard Rinehart, Jon Ippolito speaks on “Wind, Rain, and Ambient Preservation” at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul.
Tags: art, Asia, memory, New Media and Social Memory, presentation, preservation, Still Water, variable media
Ben Fino-Radin of Rhizome has published a plan to keep the organization’s venerable collection of digital art alive in the foreseeable future. The scheme builds on previous research by Richard Rinehart and Still Water’s Forging the Future coalition, of which Rhizome was a founding partner.
Tags: art, Forging the Future, preservation, publication, Rhizome, Still Water, sustainability, variable media
