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tudents alexandre berthier ersellia ferron and karl otto von oertzen at the first code and creativity conference still water lab a node not a center in fall of 2003 joline blais and jon ippolito opened the still water lab on the fourth floor of the university of maine s chadbourne hall outfitted with 17 inch powerbooks linux and windows desktop computers and 42 inch flat screens the lab is meant as a flexible multi purpose space for ongoing new media projects open to community observation or participation the lab is a hub for ultra high bandwidth internet 2 multicasts and networked performances above francis hwang of rhizome org owen smith of u me new media and kevin mcgarry of rhizome org discuss future collaborations in the still water lab for more information about still water co founders joline blais and jon ippolito or for a press kit and images about the still water itself please visit http newmedia umaine edu stillwater press html or feel free to contact us directly above jon ippolito and joline blais at the mediateca caixaforum art and multimedia conference barcelona 2002 photo courtesy fundacion la caixa choose an ongoing project from the links at left ripple connecting creators and communities for the public good the ripple initiative aims to listen and respond to community need with practical tools from digital designs to websites to mobile apps firms dedicated to helping local ecosystems to thrive are especially encouraged to apply we see this as a fulfillment of the university of maine s obligation as a land and sea grant university to serve the earth and its people nonprofits and businesses working for public causes will be able to apply for support from faculty and students in new media and other programs for their part students who participate in ripple earn hands on experience working with clients for the public good and make connections that can be valuable for their future careers more finding scholarly writing online used to be a shot in the dark an academic paper on cezanne s figure paintings for example is unlikely to rank high on a google search for nude bathers now still water has launched a new tool designed to overturn this lottery approach by meshing the thoughts of writers from across the web called thoughtmesh this software creates clouds of smart keywords that connect excerpts of essays published on different web sites more thoughtmesh is a project by vector s craig dietrich and still water co director jon ippolito with help from still water research fellow john bell an architecture for online collaboration the pool is a collaborative online environment for creating art code and texts in place of the single artist single artwork paradigm favored by the overwhelming majority of documentation systems the pool stimulates collaboration in a variety of forms including multi author asynchronous and cross medium projects the pool s structure emphasizes distributed learning and authorship contributors can propose a concept for others to implement or respond to invitations to explore debug or remix existing works thanks to an innovative graphical interface when pool surfers review artworks programs and texts the ratings they give these works ensure that the best of them will be most visible to future surfers even in its beta version the pool made the top headline in wired magazine s online news site in 2003 soon afterward the wired profile was blogged by over 40 online commentators becoming the fourth most commonly cited article in blogs worldwide as of late december 2003 visit site variable media network rescuing our digital heritage founded in 2002 the variable media network is a consortium of museums and archives dedicated to preserving endangered artworks according to the artists preferences as to how their works might be translated to new mediums once their current ones become obsolete the variable media network s paradigm and projects have been featured in the new york times the los angeles times artnews wired and the chronicle of higher education the network has produced the exhibition seeing double emulation in theory and practice the publication permanence through change and the conferences preserving the immaterial and echoes of art visit site dp_art dp_network dp_time dp_transformation still water has received a 300 000 neh grant for its work as lead organization of forging the future new tools for variable media preservation this consortium of museums and heritage organizations is devising and building tools to safeguard digital culture from the ravages of time the tools produced by forging the future are based on the variable media paradigm which concentrates on the behaviors rather than solely the material of contemporary artifacts made in ephemeral mediums the variable media paradigm asks creators themselves rather than just technicians and conservators to imagine ways to outwit the obsolescence that often besets technological and other ephemeral art forms there are three practical and complementary tools that will be developed in this project the variable media questionnaire vmq contains metadata necessary to migrate re create and preserve variable media objects the digital asset management database damd manages digital objects or documentation files and related metadata and the franklin furnace database ffdb is for cataloging physical archives of arts organizations more how can the free access to information required for a democratic society be reconciled with the privacy rights of electronic citizens still water s cross cultural partnership brings together people from different networks both indigenous and electronic for the purpose of envisioning a legal and cultural framework for sharing connected knowledge in a way that is responsible and sustainable meant to be tailored to each circumstance the framework encourages partners to define and abide by practices that emphasize kinship rather than competition participation rather than passivity genealogy rather than genius more the we take care of our land campaign organized by one of the contributors to the cross cultural partnership aims to safeguard pristine passamaquoddy bay from industrial encroachment contribute today digital curation program still water is collaborating with faculty from art computer science fogler library the hudson museum and other university of maine departments to offer a two year graduate certificate taught online beginning in september 2012 intended for people working in museums archives artist studios government offices and anywhere that people need to manage digital files the program walks students through the phases of managing digitized or born digital artifacts including acquisition representation access and preservation for a photo archivist for example these courses would answer questions like how to scan analog photos into a database how to add metadata to make them searchable online and how to cope with the rapid obsolescence of the software and hardware used to catalogue them although the certificate is designed to be completed in two years part time students may choose to spread the 18 credits 6 courses over a longer period to make things easier for students currently working in collecting institutions we have designed the final course as an internship that may take place in the student s own workplace more on the digital curation program choose a recent project from the links at left belfast cohousing ecovillage net zero energy homes food growing in your backyard and consensus governance belfast cohousing ecovillage is a sustainable community on the coast of maine that has been called the future of housing still water co directors joline blais and jon ippolito are founding members of the ecovillage along with 20 other families dedicated to this self developed and self financed neighborhood its home design by g bullet o logic won the 2011 leed project of the year apart from net zero energy homes the project features a book of commons ensuring that all residents share in a large common house food growing in their backyard and governance by consensus blais conducted an analysis of energy production and cost savings for the community that revealed a family of four could save over 100 000 in 20 years by living in cohousing the project has been the subject of numerous television newspaper and radio stories visit site longgreenhouse growing friendships between indigenous culture and permaculture longgreenhouse is a collaboration of still water estia anikwom and wassokeag our goal is to create living learning centers for sustainability combining digital culture permaculture and indigenous culture based on the wabanaki longhouse model and permaculture design principles this living learning center features a multi age school wassookeag college student interns and a team of hands on advisors longgreenhouse will produce its own food in sustainable gardens food forests aquaculture and a four season greenhouse and aim at total recycling of all organic matter and zero waste the house will be retro fit with passive solar heat and active solar hot water rainwater collecting grey water management and stream revitalization peace initiatives will focus on relations to all local living beings including indigenous life forms and indigenous peoples as well as exploring strategies for becoming indigenous visit site rfc request for ceremony rfc request for ceremony is a call for individuals to re connect to the land around them by inventing ceremonies to accompany moments from their daily lives in a deliberate echo of the requests for comments that generated the protocols now governing today s internet rfc takes the form of an online community repository in keeping with the project s focus on the earthly rather than the ethereal still water s repository includes categories such as home and healing rather than telnet and tcp contributions to rfc to date include a ceremony devised by gradeschool kids for healing pruned trees a birthday walk conducted by a montessori teacher and a tattoo ritual by a college student intent on warding off stereotypical body images rfc is featured work in the exhibition nature version 2 0 ecological modernities and digital environmentalism at colgate university from january 21 to february 16 2008 and at the conference subversion conversion development public interests in ict at cambridge university from 24 26 april 2008 rfc is produced as part of still water s longgreenhouse initiative devoted to fostering ties between sustainable and indigenous cultures more on rfc open art network empowering artists through access founded in 2003 the open art network is the first project to originate at still water itself the open art network aims to empower artists working in digital formats by devising and promoting standards that encourage an open architecture for the internet and digital media funded by a generous grant from the rockefeller foundation the open art network already includes projects by a half dozen artists including jodi mark napier and mark daggett with more projects in the pipeline the open art network is also taking the lead in developing a new form of open license that mandates access to the source media for digital art visit site connected knowledge 2007 participants from more than a dozen indigenous and developed nations converged on the banff new media institute from 25 29 july 2007 for the second connected knowledge conference organized by still water this summit focused on the connections between electronic and indigenous networks and featured working groups devoted to education and gaming archiving native heritage new legal paradigms for responsible sharing and glocal trust networks more still water research fellow gkisedtanamoogk at lake louise during the connected knowledge 2007 summit connected knowledge 2006 in november 2006 still water organized a summit at lucerne in maine with wabanaki elders legal scholars anthropologists and network activists to devise an ethical framework for sharing knowledge and heritage across cultures the result was the cross cultural partnership and the first of the connected knowledge conferences more participants in connected knowledge 2006 new from thames hudson 2006 far from the studios and galleries that sheltered art in past centuries creative people sitting at computer keyboards are tearing apart and rebuilding their society s vision of itself though they may call themselves scientists activists or hackers rather than poets or performers today s electronic visionaries are redefining art for the internet age this book by still water co founders joline blais and jon ippolito charts art s recent eruption in fields as diverse as artificial life computer games and community activism revealing a seismic shift in the role it plays in society no longer content to sit on a pedestal or auction block these works infiltrate stock markets sway court cases and network bedrooms reaching across the globe to expand the edge of art more marcel many voices one conversation still water along with the university of maine s collaborative media lab has played a strong role in the development of marcel an ultrahigh bandwidth network dedicated to uniting artists and scientists in cross cultural and cross discipline presentations performances and conversations still water has coordinated marcel teleconferences on network collaboration digital video archiving and the future of code more april 5 8 2005 this fourth installment in the code and creativity series features visiting artists whose projects shift across scales of time or space works discussed include sculptures that amplify the sound of sap rising in a tree or seismic tremors from deep in the earth net art updates of 40 year old paintings and a year long performance reborn on a computer screen organized by still water and the new media program the week s events include artist talks hands on technical workshops and a panel discussion more above mtaa 1 year performance video installation version 2005 in the presence of the sacred in the presence of the sacred will explore interactive storytelling ceremonies between native american and local storytellers using access grid hi bandwidth videoconferencing technology the passamaquoddy word kehsatokot signifies length of a braid or story from their tradition of telling stories as they braid the ceremonial sweetgrass this braiding kestakenikan will be the model for both the technique of storytelling and the content of the stories a story braid is a live interweaving of stories in which each storyteller adds her strand but in a way that respects and honors the other strands in the end an interactively produced story emerges that becomes greater than the sum of its strands more still water is collaborating with legal experts from a number of maine programs to launch an ambitious program for overhauling the way 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