The program’s internationally accomplished faculty are actively engaged in a range of creative disciplines and areas that include art and cultural theory, art history and aesthetics, media theory, film and video, sound, music, performance, theater, digital media, artists’ books and multiples, print media, photography, painting, sculpture, new media, writing, poetry, visual rhetoric and perceptual psychology. All of the Intermedia faculty hold appointments in other disciplines as well as being actively involved in research, development and professional work in multiple areas of inquiry.
Intermedia MFA Program
Owen Smith
Director, Intermedia Program
Professor of Art
owen.smith@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3248
Works by Owen Smith
Dr. Owen F. Smith is the Director of the Intermedia MFA Program at the University of Maine. He is also a professor of Art History and Digital Art in the Department of Art and the Chair of the Department of New Media. He received his BA in Art History and Russian Studies, his MA in Anthropology and his PhD in Art History from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a specialist in Modern and Contemporary art, particularly what he calls Alternative Art Forms. He has lectured widely in the US and Europe on art in the 20th Century. His seminal book on the history of fluxus, Fluxus: a History of an Attitude, was published by San Diego State University Press. Owen Smith is also a practicing artist who works in digital art and new media forms and has exhibited his work in over 80 national and international exhibitions over the last ten years. Some of his net art works can be seen online at:
http://www.altarts.org/ofsproof/enrty1.html http://www.altarts.org/tstcn/index.html http://www.altarts.org/imagesite/pixelpage/intry.html http://www.altarts.org/owensmith/index.html
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N.B. Aldrich
N.B. Aldrich is a new media artist residing in Brooks, Maine, who creates installation, video, performance and acousmatic art. He is a founding member of MAP Intermedia Performance Collaboration.
Artistically, he focuses on collecting, refining and redistributing information, both aesthetic and practical, across varying mediums. He has had work shown nationally and internationally at such venues as Engine 27 in NYC, Sonic Odyssey in LA and the Festival de Arte Sonore in Barcelona, Spain.
He has interviewed and written about Sound Art and sound artists such as Chris Mann and Stephen Vitiello and has taught Music, Electronic Music, Electronic Art and Installation Art courses at Bennington College, Rockport College and the University of New Hampshire and is currently on the faculty of the New Media Department at the University of Maine at Orono.
To learn more about N.B. Aldrich, go here
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Leon Johnson
leon@leonjohnson.org
Leon Johnson conceives, researches, designs and produces intermedia communications and events. These events include performances and interactive spectacles in traditional and non-traditional sites. His delivery systems include installation, performance, video, photography, digital and traditional print systems, book arts, painting and discrete objects.
His Recent performances have included "Empire Postcards: My Colonial Father[s]" in England and Toronto, a UK tour of "Faust/Faustus: A Duet For Devils" and "reMEMBERING WILDE" an intermedia performance featuring an original score by Jeffrey Stolet. His short film, FAUST/FAUSTUS IN DEPTFORD was selected for the KunstFilmBienale in Cologne, Germany and the RaindanceFilm Festival in London.
He has received an Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Williams Fellowship for undergraduate teaching and for fostering interdisciplinary collaboration within classrooms and between departments. He is also the Director In Residence of The Berwick Institute, Boston.
For more information visit his website
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Michael Grillo
Associate Professor of Art History michael.grillo@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3252
Curriculum Vitae for Michael Grillo
Works by Michael Grillo
Dr. Michael Grillo is Associate Professor of History of Art in the Department of Art, and the Director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor. His signature work with Italian fourteenth-century images investigates how they operate as primary sources that visually articulate ideas inexpressible in any other media, including written or oral speech.
Dr. Grillo received his PhD from Cornell University with a dissertation on Medieval History of Art. He continued this work with his 1997 book, "Symbolic Structures: The Role of Composition in Signalling Meaning in Italian Late Medieval Painting." He offers seminars on Fifteenth-Century Ways of Knowing, Renaissance New Media, and Theory and Practice in Photography, and lectures on Photography, Film Studies, and New Media. He is also a practicing photographer, and seeks to explore how aesthetic theories play out directly in application in our world, particularly how photography operates as a social process.
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Jefferson Goolsby
Assistant Professor of Studio Art jeff.goolsby@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3250
Jefferson Goolsby is a multi-channel video and sound artist whose intermedia work explores alternative visual, sonic, and narrative forms. His sound and image compositions incorporate analog and digital processes as well as performance and interactive technologies. His current research involves the construction of massive database systems for arts production.
His work has been presented nationally and internationally, including the Center for Maine Contemporary Arts Biennial (Rockport, Maine), the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, Oregon), the Portland International Experimental Film Festival (Oregon), Tulane University (New Orleans), Ming Chuan University (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Yi University (Taipei, Taiwan). His paper The Distribution Revolution: A Global Recalibration of Media Production, Ownership, and Economics was presented at the 2008 International Society of Electronic Arts (ISEA) conference in Singapore. His paper The Data Palette: The End of Content Generation in Video and Sound Art Practice will be presented at ISEA 2009 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He received his M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from California State University, Chico (2002) and his M.F.A. in Digital Arts from the University of Oregon (2006).
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Susan Groce
Professor of Art, Department Chair susan.groce@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3246
Curriculum Vitae for Susan Groce
Works by Susan Groce
Susan Groce received her MFA from the University of Michigan and B.F.A. from the University of Arizona. She works in large scale Mixed Media Drawing, and Printmaking (Intaglio and Lithography). Her research focus is on emerging technologies, and non-toxic materials and processes. She has worked at Atelier 17, Paris; the Edinburgh Printmakers, Scotland; Open Bite Print Workshop, Australia and the MacDowell Colony, NH. She is an Artist Mentor for the MFA program at Vermont College, and has been an Artist in Residence, Visiting Artist, Guest Lecturer and Visiting Researcher at over 40 Art Schools, programs and Universities in Australia, Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada and The USA.
Her prints and drawings have been in over 160 solo, invitational and juried International, National, and Regional exhibitions and is included in private, public and corporate collections in the USA, The UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Singapore. Susan served 6 years on the Visual Arts Panel of the Maine Arts Commission, 2 of those years as Chair, and has received a variety of research grants and awards in the arts, inclusive of the University of Maine System Trustee Professorship. which is designated to provide research support to recognize, reward, and retain exceptional scholars, for her research project The Interface Between Digital, Non-Toxic, and Traditional Print Technologies.
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Laurie E. Hicks
Professor of Art
laurie.hicks@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3247
Curriculum Vitae for Laurie E. Hicks
Works by Laurie E. Hicks
Laurie E. Hicks is a professor of art and art education in the Department of Art at the University of Maine. Her research and publications focus on issues pertaining to feminism, cultural theory and environmental design. Most recently her publications have explored the concept of play and its contribution to our understanding of a socially responsible art education; contemporary body modification as a process of liberation; and the relationship of visual and material culture to our memory of place. Professor Hicks’ most recent artistic work, "Icelandic Particulars," links her scholarly interest in our memory of place with photographic representations of experiences of place.
As a faculty member, she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in art education theory and practice, as well as courses on contemporary issues in art education, environmental design, art history, and museum education. She also teaches an art history course on art and human experience. In addition to her research and teaching efforts, Professor Hicks has served as the chair of the University of Maine’s Department of Art and interim chair of Theatre and Dance. She also served as President of the Women’s Caucus of the National Art Education Association, is a member of the National Council on Policy Studies in Art Education and was the founding editor of the Journal of Gender Issues in Art and Education. In 1999, Professor Hicks received the national Mary J. Rouse Award for Outstanding Contributions to Art Education.
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Michael H. Lewis
Professor of Art
michael.lewis@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3279
(1966). B.S., 1963, State University of New York at New Paltz; M.A., 1964, Michigan State University; M.F.A., 1976, State University of New York at New Paltz; Painting, Drawing.
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James Linehan
Professor of Art
james.linehan@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3246
Extended Biography for James Linehan
Works by James Linehan
James Linehan, Professor of Art, is a painter who teaches courses in painting, drawing and design. After receiving a B.F.A. in Painting at Arizona State University in 1974, he continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he earned an M.A. in painting in 1976 and an M.F.A. in 1978. Prior to moving to Maine in 1983 he taught for five years at St. Andrews College in North Carolina.
Linehan is represented by Aucocisco Gallery in Portland, Maine; Gallery 357 in Rockland, Maine; Vose Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; and Sherry French Gallery, New York, N.Y. His work has been included in over one hundred group shows and twenty solo shows in the past fifteen years. He has completed twenty public commissions, including fifteen for the Maine Arts Commission Percent For Art Project, and is represented in thirty public and corporate collections.
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Andy (Andrea) L. Mauery
Associate Professor of Art
andy.mauery@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3249
(2000) B.F.A., 1991, Indiana University of Pennsylvania; M.F.A., 1993, West Virginia University; Foundations, Design, Sculpture.
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Alan Stubbs
Professor of Philosophy
alan.stubbs@umit.maine.edu
Works by Alan Stubbs
Dr. Stubb's primary interest is photography. He is interested in all forms of photography-- black & white and color; film and digital; and different processes such as platinum printing and zone-plate photography. He works with different subject matter including portraits, interiors, landscapes, and abstractions and light. Currently many of his efforts involve explorations in digital inkjet processes. He has taught numerous courses on photography and on digital imaging. He has used Photoshop for over a dozen years. He has also taught courses that focus on black and white process and courses on color photography.
Dr. Stubbs has a Ph.D. in psychology and his area is the scientific study of perception. There is a close link between this area and photography and in addition the work in perception has so many connections to many areas of art.
See some illusions and other visual effects at his PerceptualStuff web site.
Joline Blais
joline.blais@umit.maine.edu
207.581.4486
http://three.org/blais/
Joline Blais is an Assistant Professor of New Media at UMaine and co-founder of Still Water, a research lab devoted to studying and nourishing network culture. She previously directed Digital Media Studies at NY Polytechnic University and introduced media studies in SCPS at NYU.
Blais' research and creative work explores sustainable communities and new narrative and poetic forms, and includes the 2006 book At the Edge of Art, which examines ways that digital technologies have reshaped art.
She is currently exploring the connections between electronic and indigenous networks in projects such as In the Presence of the Sacred, which links new technologies to indigenous storytelling and ritual, Babel/Babble, poetry generated from infant speech, and the Cross-Cultural Partnership, a legal framework for sharing connected knowledge in a way that is responsible and sustainable.
Raphael DiLuzio
raphael.diluzio@umit.maine.edu
207.581.4425
http://homepage.mac.com/raphaeldiluzio
Professor DiLuzio is a practicing artist and Assistant Professor of New Media and Art at the University of Maine in Orono. As an artist he works both traditionally and digitally, exhibiting work around the world. His on going creative work and research investigates the overlap of poetic and narrative structures with visual language. He teach courses in Art and New Media that explore digital video and Time-based media as it applies to installation, interactive environments, live digital performance and traditional cinematic explorations. Additionally, he has taught digital poetics in Italy in a program he developed at the Academy of Belle Arts in San Martino. He am the principal investigator in the "TIME-BASED" studies initiatives in the New Media Department as well as the founder of the Apple Certified Training Center in Belfast Maine. Currently He working to develop an interdisciplinary (digital) filmmaking and time-based performance at the University of Maine.
Jon Ippolito
jon.ippolito@umit.maine.edu
207.581.4477
http://three.org/
A footsoldier in the battle between network and hierarchic culture, Jon Ippolito is an artist, former Guggenheim curator, and co-founder of the Still Water, a research arm of the New Media Department at the University of Maine. He's a sans-serif kind of guy.
The recipient of Tiffany, Lannan, and American Foundation awards, Jon Ippolito has exhibited artwork with collaborative teammates Janet Cohen and Keith Frank at the Walker Art Center, ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, and WNET's ReelNewYork Web site. As Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, he curated Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium and, with John G. Hanhardt, The Worlds of Nam June Paik. Ippolito's critical writing has appeared in periodicals ranging from Flash Art and the Art Journal to the Washington Post. At the Still Water lab co-founded with Joline Blais, Ippolito has worked on three projects--the Variable Media Network, the Open Art Network, and a book co-authored with Joline Blais called At the Edge of Art--that aim to expand the art world beyond its traditional confines.
Bill Kuykendall
bill.kuykendall@umit.maine.edu
207.581.4403
Bill Kuykendall currently serves as Senior Lecturer in New Media and Cooperating Professor of Communication and Journalism at the University of Maine and as Associate Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Missouri. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Libra Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of New Media at the University of Maine.
Kuykendall holds an MA in Mass Communications from the University of Minnesota and a BA in Zoology from West Virginia University. Before joining UMaine, he taught photojournalism and newspaper management and directed the annual Pictures of the Year contest and Missouri Photo Workshop at the Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia. He helped found and lead photojournalism workshops in Bulgaria in 1991 and in Bulgaria and Hungary in 1992 and served on the University of Miami Somosfoto Workshop in Quito, Ecuador in 2005.
Kuykendall has served as photo director of the Seattle Times, freelance photographer, consultant, magazine editor, and print and multimedia designer. He is a recipient of the Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year award and Robin F. Garland Teacher of the Year awards from the National Press Photographers Association and the Gold Quill award from the International Association of Business Communicators.
Kuykendall serves as production photographer for the Penobscot Theatre Company of Bangor, does documentary photography on a variety of topics, and conducts community new media workshops for the City of Bangor and selected islands in the Gulf of Maine.
Mike Scott
mike.scott@umit.maine.edu
207.581.4359
http://newmedia.umaine.edu/
Mike Scott specializes in the Interactivity Sequence of New Media and is the director of New Media and Internet Technology Lab research and development and the Access Grid project.
New Media and Internet Technology Lab (ASAP Media Service (Director)
ASAP is an ongoing experiment in education where students are provided an environment and the incentive to complete projects that will stretch their creativity and explore their full range of abilities. In this environment, technology is considered a tool which students learn by using. They complete multimedia projects that combine traditional mediums through computer technology and communicate information in new and innovative ways. At ASAP, the value and importance of the process must remain the highest priority. ASAP maintains that any final product (an interactive kiosk, educational CD-ROM, WWW site, digital video, or traditional publication) must be representative of the development of creative thought, technical understanding and the dynamic collaboration which created it. If the product is a result of these learning processes, then ASAP has succeeded in its mission.
Access Grid
The Access Grid website (http://www.accessgrid.org/) defines the Access Grid project as: An ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid.
Elizabeth Wiemann
beth.wiemann@umit.maine.edu
Beth Wiemann was raised in Burlington, VT, studied composition and clarinet at Oberlin College and received her PhD in theory and composition from Princeton University. Her works have been performed in New York, Boston, Houston, San Francisco, Washington DC, the Dartington Festival (UK), the "Spring in Havana 2000 Festival (Cuba), and elsewhere by the ensembles Continuum, Parnassus, Earplay, ALEA III, singers Paul Hillier, Susan Narucki, D’Anna Fortunato and others. Her compositions have won awards from the Opera Vista Chamber Opera Competition, the Orvis Foundation, Copland House, the Colorado New Music Festival, American Women Composers, and Marimolin as well as various arts councils. A founding member of Griffin Music Ensemble, a contemporary music group in Boston, she premiered many clarinet works and conducted composer-in-the-schools workshops in the Boston and Worcester public schools. After teaching at the College of the Holy Cross and Salisbury State University, she now teaches at the University of Maine. In addition to clarinet instruction, her work at UMaine includes teaching Orchestration, Tonal Counterpoint, Twentieth Century Musical Techniques, Composition, and Graduate -level theory seminars. A CD of Wiemann's music, Why Performers Wear Black, was released on Albany Records in 2004. Songs of hers appear currently on the Capstone, innova and Americus record labels.
Wiemann's personal website can be found here.
Kirsten Jacobson
Assistant Professor of Philosophy kirsten.jacobson@umit.maine.edu
B.A.,St. John's College (Santa Fe, NM).
Ph.D., Penn State University.
Professor Jacobson specializes in 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy. Her research interests include the study of spatiality and the interpersonal significance of space, the nature of home and dwelling, and, more generally, the philosophical significance and status of the phenomenological method. She teaches courses in Continental Philosophy and the Philosophy of Art.
Dr. Tom Mikotowicz
Professor of Theatre
tom.mikotowicz@umit.maine.edu
Tom Mikotowicz teaches directing, playwriting, history, and theory. A professor of theatre, he received his doctorate from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. As a director, Professor Mikotowicz has staged more than 150 productions in professional, educational, and community theatres throughout the country. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC) and his eclectic productions include: Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, Euripedes’ The Women of Troy, Gogol’s Marriage, Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, Sondheim’s Into the Woods, Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Bette and Boo, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, Chicago, and most recently, Wintertime..
Mikotowicz has also written and directed several industrial videos. Dr. Mikotowicz has published extensively, with his writings appearing both in the United States and Europe. He has written the books Oliver Smith and Theatrical Designers, and has contributed to several others. He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals and serves as an associate editor for the New England Theatre Journal. Most recently, he co-edited a new performance theory book for McFarland Publishers called Performing the Force: The Immersion into Science-Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Environments.
Marcia Joy Douglas
Assoc. Professor of Theatre & Chair, Theatre/Dance Division
marcia.douglas@umit.maine.edu
Marcia Douglas is a director, actor, educator, and choreographer. She joined the faculty of UMaine in 1999 and teaches acting, improvisation, movement, and voice. She has an MA in Directing from the University of Washington and an MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University in Dallas. In addition to directing, choreographing, and acting in many productions, she has also taught workshops and performed her one woman improvisational show nationally and internationally.
Dr. Ann Ross
Faculty - Dance
ann.ross@umit.maine.edu
Dr. Ann Ross received her M.A. from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. from Union Institute. Dr. Ross taught at the Foothills Camp in Farmington; choreographed and danced in Possessed, a musical held at the Chocolate Church in Bath; and taught an Arts Institute at the University of Maine. She was an artist in residence for Wiscasset High School and is a consultant to integrate dance education into schools on a state-wide basis.
An active advocate for dance in education, Dr. Ross has given presentations at conferences throughout New England and has developed with other teachers a dance curriculum for K-12 education and certification requirements for teaching dance in public schools. She is currently a Touring Artist with the Maine Arts Commission.
Steve Evans
Associate Professor of English
Steven.Evans@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3809
Born in southern New Jersey in 1965, Dr. Evans moved to California with his family in the mid-1970s, living in Vista, Huntington Beach, and Hillcrest before returning east in 1989 with his partner the poet Jennifer Moxley. He received my BA from the University of California at San Diego in 1988 and my PhD from Brown in 2000.
He joined the English Department faculty at the University of Maine as an assistant professor in 1999 and received tenure in 2005. He has coordinated the New Writing Series since 1999 and also served as coordinator for the undergraduate studies program in English from fall of 2004 to spring of 2006. Currently Dr. Evans is Graduate Coordinator for the Department of English. Dr. Evans' research and teaching focuses on contemporary poetry and poetics, critical theory, modernism, and the avant-garde.
Jennifer Moxley
Assistant Professor
jennifer.moxley@umit.maine.edu
207.581.3808
Jennifer Moxley's primary areas of creative work and study include creative writing; lyric poetry (history & practice); personal narrative (memoir & autobiography); experimental writing; poetry translation; small magazine/press editing and design; 20th c. American poetry. Secondary areas include French Symbolism, Russian Futurism, 19th c. British poetry, Gay and Lesbian literature, and American women’s literature.
Laura Lindenfeld
Assistant Professor
Laura_Lindenfeld@umit.maine.edu
207.581.1843
Nathan Stormer
Associate Professor
nathan@maine.edu
207.581.1938
Conceptually, Dr. Stormer is interested in the interrelation of the body and discourse and in rhetorical theories of culture, particularly the intersections of social space, cultural memory, and performativity. Critically, he studies the history of medical anti-abortion discourse in the United States. In addition to journal articles on the subject, he has published the first of a projected three-volume history that traces the evolution of medical anti-abortion discourse from the nineteenth century to today. The initial volume is Articulating Life's Memory: U.S. Medical Rhetoric about Abortion in the Nineteenth Century. Also, he is currently working on essays for a volume that renovates the classical five canon of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, memory, style, delivery) by translating them from a rhetorical skill set into a heuristic for analyzing different historical formations of rhetorical practice (invention, articulation, memory, aesthetics, and performativity), tentative title Working Papers on Rhetoric: A Will to Matter.