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14 Dec 2012 NAMACAdmin

Give and Take: Eyebeam Art + Technology Center Reflects on Hurricane Sandy's Toll

Blog Author: 
Roddy Schrock

Eybeam Art and Technology Center in Chelsea was hit particularly hard by Hurricane Sandy. In this blog post, Eyebeam's Associate Director, Roddy Shrock, reflects on what the Superstorm taught this innovative, new media space about the delicacies of balancing visions of the future, with efforts to preserve the past.

13 Oct 2010 NAMACAdmin

Where the Old and the New Collide: FutureMedia Fest 2010

Author: 
Nettrice R. Gaskins

Storytelling is at the forefront of every stage of content creation and it is the theme of my second NAMAC blog 'travelogue'. Here I begin exactly one day after the SIEGE 2010 Expo concluded when the FutureMedia Fest kicks off at Georgia Tech. I offer my personal experience with computer-based media as a backstory.

13 Oct 2010 Dewey Schott

Guggenheim Foundation and BMW Group Announce New Global Initiative

Guggenheim logoThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Museum and the BMW Group have announced the launch of a global initiative designed to engage the next generation of architecture, art, science, design, technology, and education leaders in addressing challenges likely to face cities of the future.

07 Oct 2010 NAMACAdmin

Where the Old and New Collide: The SIEGE 2010 Expo

Author: 
Nettrice R. Gaskins

My NAMAC 'travelogue' series begins with my love of scavenger hunts, you know, those games in which the participants must gather, or perform tasks or take photographs of specific items. The aim of the scavenger hunt is usually to be the first to complete the game, or complete it in the most creative manner.  With the advent and growth of the web and other emerging technologies scavenger hunts have been revived and are evolving with the help of new media forms such as augmented reality gaming which I will explain later in this post.

29 Jul 2007 NAMACStaff

Showing Leadership in the Participatory Media Culture

Author: 
Jeremy O'Neal

Three years have passed since NAMAC published Deep Focus: A Report on the Future of Independent Media, and every day the media landscape looks more like the one it predicted.

08 Jun 2007 NAMACStaff

Digital Directions: Conversion Planning for the Media Arts

Author: 
Helen De Michiel

It's coming, it's here. The digitization of our media world. Sorting through the techno-booster hype to neo-luddite hand-wringing is like dealing with earthquake preparedness here in the Bay Area. We're told that the Next Big One will strike within the next thirty years, but we can't know when or how close to home. Clearly inevitable, but hard to think about coherently on a daily basis. There is a certain amount of denial at work too, but we try to prepare the best we can, both practically and intuitively. The digitization of our media world is similar.

Twists and Turns of Ingenuity

Submitted by NAMACStaff on December 14, 2005 - 10:00pm
Author: 
Chris Burnett
The NAMAC Conference’s Ingenuity track appeared in high-relief against the Conference’s overall theme of freedom, creativity, and risk in the media arts. These values are certainly within the domain of emerging media, but because new media often take freedom and risk as givens, the initial spirit of adventure may become worn. Mindful of not taking risk for granted, the Ingenuity track presentations had the double duty of presenting fresh ideas and approaches in new media while sparking innovation within strongly held aesthetic convictions and social commitments. After all, what is risk if there is little or nothing of substance to gain or lose?
22 Aug 2001 NAMACStaff

Low Walls: Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute Arts Department

Author: 
Patricia R. Zimmermann
“We’ve tried to foster mavericks,” explains Neil Rolnick, electronic composer and chair of the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in upstate Troy, New York, near the Hudson River. Rewiring virtually everything into new forms permeates hiring decisions, faculty discussions, alumni memories, and administrators’ visions in the department, which seems to harbor pragmatic tinkerers rather than neurotic blowhards. It is an extremely refreshing change from most of the academy. The continual redesign of curricula and degree programs—which typically proceeds glacially at most academic institutions—marks this collective combustion across disciplines in the Arts Department. Everyone I interviewed explained how technological convergence has served as a model for the convergence of arts, ideas, and disciplines.

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