What ties happiness, women’s empowerment, and sustainable living together? A UMaine permaculture course created by New Media faculty explored this question with Jim Merkel, director of the award-winning documentary Saving Walden’s World. On December 3rd, the Fernald Center hosted a packed screening of Merkel’s film, which highlights the connection between happiness, land stewardship, and women-led […]
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This semester 50 students in the Intro to New Media course embarked on a four-month experiment comparing AI and traditional digital methods across eight creative tasks ranging from writing essays to coding game avatars.
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Entangled Ecologies, a NEH-funded augmented reality project by New Media’s Joline Blais and Dartmouth’s John Bell, enriches any visit to New Hampshire’s Shaker Forest with a rich blend of historical and ecological research.
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New Media alumnus John Bell has won a Mellon grant to reveal how acting styles have progressed through AI analysis of classic films and TV, while some of his fellow alumni have gained attention for their novel approaches to creating imagery.
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Cherished for its myriad health benefits and cultivated by both Native and Maine farmers, the wild blueberry is an unequaled superfood. A team led by Joline Blais, New Media professor and president of the Wild Blueberry Heritage Center, has launched a first-of-its-kind museum to celebrate this distinct fruit and its growers.
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How will education adapt to a landscape transformed by generative AI, where ChatGPT can write a term paper or coding assignment in a matter of seconds and Midjourney can create digital images from a phrase like “vintage photo of Amazon rainforest” or “self-portrait in the style of van Gogh”?
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In 2022 New Media faculty probed the strengths and weaknesses of NFTs and TikTok, two of the biggest digital trends in recent years. Their research was cited in Wired, Forbes, and The New York Observer and presented in conferences in New York, London, Instanbul, and Shanghai.
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