DMI Newsletter
The Dynamic Media Institute offers a creative and intellectually stimulating environment wherein graduate students focus on the role and possible new uses of dynamic media in communication design. Each student’s unique vision and passion for design develops into an original body of idea and fresh practice.
Symposium Class Explores Unconventional Approaches to Dynamic Media in Communication Design
DMI unveiled a new graduate course, Design Symposium, in Spring 2006. Students explored possible new uses of dynamic media in communication design while working with multiple resident and visiting faculty.
DMI Professors Organizing AIGA New Media Education ConferenceDMI professors Brian Lucid and Joe Quackenbush are organizing an AIGA National Education Conference entitled Design Education in the Age of New Media. Slated for the spring of 2008, the conference will investigate the challenges new media poses to educational programs around the world. |
DMI Semester Reviews Scheduled for December 14 and 15Fall semester reviews for DMI graduate students are scheduled for December 14 and 15. Second year students will present their semester thesis findings, while first year students will present work completed in studio and seminar courses. |
Spring 2006 Thesis Presentations
DMI celebrated five graduate thesis presentation in the spring of 2006 including:
Kate Nazemi :: Through Hand, Through Mind
Multi-Sensory Approaches to Form, Interaction And Language Through Objects and Dynamic Media
Karolina Novitska :: forWordPlay
Experiential Learning of a Foreign Language via Interactive Play
Lauren Bessen :: Visualizing Visuality
Interactive Tools for Visual Literacy
Mei-Fen Tsai :: Intimacy in Dynamic Media
Elizabeth Lawrence :: Ancient Divination
Parallels New Media Cartomancy in an Interactive Context
In this newsletter, we feature Elizabeth Lawrence’s thesis: Ancient Divination Parallels New Media: Cartomancy in an Interactive Context
DMI’s The Language of Dynamic Media Exhibition Catalog Now Available
DMI is pleased to release the catalog for its recent exhibit: The Language of Dynamic Media: Works from the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art. Curated by DMI’s Program Coordinator and Professor of Communication Design, Jan Kubasiewicz, the exhibit was organized with extensive help from its alumni, current students, and faculty.
The exhibition catalog features a wide range of work developed by students between 2000 and 2005 including interactive learning tools, studies in participatory narratives, motion and sound studies, physical interfaces, and multimedia installations.
Faculty and staff from accredited colleges and universities are eligible for review copies of The Language of Dynamic Media exhibition catalog.
For more information about the Dynamic Media Institute e-mail us at contact@dmiboston.org or call Joe Quackenbush at 617.879.7682.
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