Director, Intermedia Program
owen.smith@umit.maine.edu
http://www.owenfsmith.com
207.581.4389

Dr. Owen F. Smith is the Director of the Intermedia MFA Program at the University of Maine. He is also the  Alston D. and Ada Lee Correll Chair in New Media in the Department of New Media and the Director of the IMRC Center. 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/owensmith/index.html
http://www.altarts.org/ofsproof/enrty1.html
http://www.altarts.org/tstcn/index.html

N.B. Aldrich

Assistant Professor of Intermedia
nate.aldrich@umit.maine.edu
http://www.nbaldrich.com/

N.B.Aldrich is a new media artist and educator residing in Penobscot, Maine, USA, who creates installation, video, performance and acousmatic art. Prior to earning an MFA in Electronic Music composition, he spent ten years as a theatre director and artistic director. Working as a sound designer and composer for theatre and dance performances over the past twenty five years, he has challenged the traditional complementary role of audio as a design element by constructing large-scale works that operate as thematic partners with text and/or movement.

The current work is largely rooted in speculation about observed systems of organization, whether biological, physical, sociological or cognitive. This speculation provides a platform from which to question how the world works and conceive, if not an answer, at least a model for understanding; a chance to contemplate how some of the logic of the Information Age plays out. He has shown work internationally at such venues as Artists Space, the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, the Festival de Arte Sonore, the Singapore National Museum, Dance Theatre Workshop and the Hipersonica Festival, among many others.

He has taught Music, Sound Design, Electronic Music, Electronic Art & Media History 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 and the Intermedia MFA Program at the University of Maine at Orono. He has written about Sound Art and sound artists such as Chris Mann, Stephen Vitiello,Alvin Lucier and Annea Lockwood.

For more information visit his website.

Iain Kerr

Associate for Critical Engagement

iain6579@gmail.com

cell: 207.332.6097

skype: iainakerr

ichat: iain6579

Iain Kerr is an itinerant worker and amateur whose engagements have taken him into and across the fields of philosophy, architecture, biology, art, clothing design, labor, food ways, situated technologies and geography. Iain is a founding member of the trans-disciplinary collective spurse, as well as its architectural off-shoot: spurse design, and the corporation: That Word Which Means Smuggling Across Borders, Incorporated (with J. Morgan Puett). He has also collaborated with the artists: William PopeL., Mark Dion, Cesare Pietriosti, J. Morgan Puett and Bartow+Metzgar. Iain lectures widely (including Harvard University, Columbia University, SUNY Oswego, James Madison University, CCA, RISDI and the University of Venice). Individually and collectively his work has been exhibited internationally (Santa Barbara, Kansas City, Indianapolis, New York, Montreal, Venice, Rochester, Chinon, Brataslava and elsewhere).

For more information visit his website