I am a freshman at Umaine. Throughout my high school career I have held a fascination with making 'things'. This is widely why I have picked New Media as a major. I have extensive past film experience and am Adobe Premier Pro certified.
Anne Collins Goodyear (Co-director, Bowdoin Art Museum) is former curator at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. As president of the College Art Association she presided over its first THATCamp in 2013.
Ari Epstein (Terrascope, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT) devises innovative settings for project-based, team-oriented education, from youth radio to exhibition design.
Nicole Starosielski (Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU) focuses on the global distribution of digital media, most recently on how transoceanic cables from telegraph to Internet have affected the geopolitics of islands and coasts. Her new media project Surfacing inspired the conference's title.
Andrew Stauffer (Department of English, University of Virginia) is renowned as a digital historian of 19th-century literature and for his leadership of NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship).
Mary Erica Zimmer (PhD candidate at the Editorial Institute, Boston University) is writing a dissertation on Geoffrey Hill and working on interactive early modern maps.
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