Which is the oldest human record?
In his keynote presentation to the National Symposium of Brazilian Cyberculture, Jon Ippolito argues it is lurking in the Amazon rainforest.
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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
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
Still Water co-director Joline Blais trades a 45-minute car commute for an hour and a quarter on an electric bike.
Tags: athletics, bicycle, energy, GreenHouse, hardware, life, New Media, orono, Still Water, sustainability, transportation
Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito presented models of open governance on November 12 at U-Me’s Promise and Problems of Transparency conference. Organized by Desiree Butterfield-Nagy, the event featured a “hyperblog” organized by Blais and Ippolito with help from Still Water Senior Researcher Craig Dietrich.
Tags: Belfast, cohousing, governance, GreenHouse, law, New Media, orono, presentation, sharing, Still Water, sustainability, University of Maine
This past year saw several prominent museums open their doors to public participation in ways they had never before, such as inviting visitors to submit works for exhibition or help determine curatorial selections. At the kickoff event for the Walker Art Center’s Open Field program on 3 June, Jon Ippolito contrasts three different models for the commons such institutions can choose from–a market, a zoo, or a tribe.
Tags: art, commons, Facebook, LongHouse, museum, New Media, presentation, preservation, sharing, Still Water, The Pool, variable media, Wabanaki
Academics are taking their own sweet time adapting to a networked world, at least to judge from two reports that surfaced on the iDC discussion list last week. To judge from Neil Selwyn’s “The Educational Significance of Social Media” and to the UC Berkeley study “Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication,” there are still plenty of professors happily justifying their obsession with inbred subdisciplinary journals while Fox and Facebook steamroll over public discourse.
Tags: defect, education, network, New Media, publication, sharing, software, Thoughtmesh, University of Maine
Waterfall Arts presents Still Water Co-Director Joline Blais talking about her work in ecology, the New Commons, and cross-cultural networking on Monday 26 April at 7pm.
Tags: art, Belfast, GreenHouse, LongHouse, network, New Media, presentation, sharing, Still Water, sustainability
This year’s crop of New Media Majors from the graduating class have created more than just a couple dozen outstanding capstone projects. By inventing startup companies based on cradle-to-cradle design and other local economies, many have envisioned a future for themselves in which earning a living is compatible with living sustainably. And some have businesses that are already taking off.
Tags: capstone, education, New Media, orono, presentation, University of Maine
Still Water Senior Researchers John Bell and Craig Dietrich join Nicole Starosielski, Vanessa Vobis, and Jon Ippolito in the online presentation “Avoiding a Cultural Bottleneck: Networked, Distributed, and Agile Collaborations” as part of the HASTAC 2010: Grand Challenges and Global Innovations Conference. The projects presented include the Metaserver and other projects of Forging the Future.
Tags: Forging the Future, network, New Media, presentation, preservation, sharing, software, Still Water, variable media
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