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Make a mobile app for your collection in this workshop

Digital Curation, John Bell, Jon, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Open Art Network, Still Water / By jon

Curators hoping to augment their collections with interactive exhibits often forget that today’s visitors walk in the door with powerful digital interfaces already sitting in their pockets. For the 2020 Maine Archives and Museums conference on October 8th, Still Water Co-director Jon Ippolito offers a workshop that walks participants through the creation of a cross-platform …

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Preserving the most ephemeral of media

Digital Curation, Interarchive, Jon, New Media, Still Water, Variable Media / By jon

As more of our work and entertainment moves online, the challenge of preserving websites and social media becomes increasingly urgent. In an interactive discussion on Friday 17 April at 1pm EDT entitled “Web Archiving for Everyone,” the latest guest speaker in UMaine’s Digital Curation program presents new tools and techniques for saving Internet culture for …

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Code, recipes, and spells: DIY DNA extraction at Colgate

EdgeOfArt, Joline, Jon, LongGreenHouse, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Still Water, Still Water Permaculture Guild / By jon

New Media alumna Margaretha Haughwout invited Still Water co-directors Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito to explore the connections between different types of code and how they can be open-sourced, digitally and biologically, in a series of talks and workshops at Colgate University in November 2018.

Students champion farmers at America East Hackathon

EcoVillage, Joline, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Still Water, Still Water Permaculture Guild / By jon

Still Water Co-director Joline Blais was a coordinator for the 2019 America East Hackathon, which focused on developing inexpensive apps and systems to sustain local farmers.

Yale keynote asks whether art can be permanent in the digital age

Connected Knowledge, Craig, Digital Curation, John Bell, Joline, Jon, New Media, Open Art Network, Still Water, Still Water West, Variable Media, Wabanaki / By jon

At Yale’s May 11th symposium “Is This Permanence?”, Still Water’s John Bell and Jon Ippolito help curators and historians plan for a digital future in which “archival material” could be a contradiction in terms.

“Right To Unmake” CAA panel examines Lego-like creativity

Craig, EdgeOfArt, Innovators, John Bell, Jon, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Open Art Network, Still Water, Still Water West, Thoughtmesh, Variable Media / By jon

While the maker movement continues to gather publicity, one of its most critical dynamics seldom makes the headlines: the right to unmake. Now the College Art Association has published a call for presentations on unmaking and “Lego-like” creativity for its next annual conference in Los Angeles in February 2018.

Is reinterpretation the new emulation?

Digital Curation, Interarchive, Jon, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Open Art Network, Still Water, Variable Media / By jon

Reinterpretation as a preservation strategy has been called “radical” and “dangerous,” yet this unconventional approach has seen a surge of interest in preservation communities in the past year. In a departure from conventional wisdom about conservation, a group of European preservation experts recently invited Still Water’s Jon Ippolito to reassess this controversial technique as a …

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Grant promotes interdisciplinary approach to sustainability

Connected Knowledge, EcoVillage, Joline, LongGreenHouse, New Media, Still Water, Still Water Permaculture Guild, Wabanaki, Wassookeag / By jon

How can universities contribute to a healthy planet? One way is to partner with local organizations, as explored in a grant won by the University of Maine to become a Campus for Environmental Stewardship, with Still Water Co-director Joline Blais one of the team leaders.

Reinterpreting the past with 3D scans and DNA

Digital Curation, Interarchive, Jon, Maine Intellectual Commons, New Media, Open Art Network, Still Water, Variable Media / By jon

Interpreting the past has long been the province of historians, but reinterpreting it has recently become a concern of conservators. This most powerful, and most controversial, of preservation strategies can demand techniques not found in the traditional conservation lab, from 3d scanning to DNA computing. Several international conferences from Mexico City to Amsterdam recently spotlighted …

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Joline Blaisâ€™ ESTIA keynote emphasizes grounded collaborations

Connected Knowledge, EcoVillage, general, Joline, LongGreenHouse, New Media, RequestForCeremony, Still Water, Still Water Permaculture Guild, Wabanaki, Wassookeag / By jon

At the 2016 ESTIA conference, Still Water co-director and New Media professor Joline Blais used her keynote address to acknowledge a number of the most important practitioners who have contributed to her creative projects over the past decade.