News about projects of the Still Water lab at the University of Maine. UMaine offers new fast-track training in digital curation. Whether red or blue, you need net neutrality.

Digital humanities scholars examine the impact of computing and network technologies for research and publication on the creative arts and letters. The University of Maine has been host to numerous digital humanities initiatives contributed by faculty and students from a variety of departments. UMaine humanists from disciplines such as art, history, and literature have applied techniques from data mining to 3-D printing to uncover insights about the past as well as possibilities for the future.

At the Edge of Art. Three Threats to the Survival of New Media. Can Museums Evolve As Fast As Their Assets? The Politics of Perspective.

Ong, SJ, Center for Languge, Media, and Culture. Interests include the history and theory of composition studies and rhetoric; orality-literacy studies and the media ecology of oral, manuscript, print, and digital culture; medieval literature and language; and rhetorical, social, and cognitive approaches to memory. What unifies these diverse subjects is my overarching interest in an historicist and comparative analysis of traditions.

Art, New Media, and Social Memory. By Richard Rinehart and Jon Ippolito. This book explains our options. Read it if you want to prevail. This book will arrive like a bombshell in the twin citadels of art museums and conservation departments.

At the Edge of Art. In the Presence of the Sacred. Craig Dietrich and Vanessa Vobis. A research arm of the New Media Department of the University of Maine at Orono, Still Water is dedicated to studying and building creative networks.