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Since its founding in 2002, Still Water has garnered press from over 40 blogs worldwide as well as mainstream venues such as ArtNews, the Los Angeles Times, and Wired.

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You can find more information about Joline at her home page.
100-word bio

Joline’s work explores the overlap of digital narrative and sustainability. She co-directs the Still Water lab, is a faculty advisor on the Terrell House Permaculture Project, and founded LongGreenHouse, a collaboration between the Wabanaki and university communities. Joline is a co-founding partner of the Belfast Cohousing & Ecovillage, a net-zero community whose design won the 2011 Green Project of the Year. Her book At the Edge of Art (2006) investigates how new strategies of empowerment work in communities of new media artists, and how these practices reshape art and real world contexts.

250-word bio

Joline Blais, Associate Professor of New Media at UMaine, is a mother, educator, writer, permaculture practitioner, ecovillage founding partner, competitive rower, avid hiker, and alpine ski coach. She co-directs Still Water, and co-founded LongGreenHouse, a "communiversity" project integrating the Wassokeag K-8 school, UMaine classes, permaculture practices, and Wabanaki Longhouse traditions. Her subsequent work at the Belfast Ecovillage spanned 8 years and involved permaculture design, art projects and workshops, land use governance, restorative justice facilitation, dynamic governance, non-violent communication and transition town training, and initial development of food forest orchards, as well as design, construction and research of a net-zero, solar energy "passive haus."

Her 2006 book At the Edge of Art investigates how new media art puts the power of networks and distributed creativity into the hands of ordinary citizens in a variety of non-art contexts. Her other publications and creative work explore the overlap of digital culture, indigenous culture and permaculture.

Currently she is working on Wild Difference, a project with community partners to prevent the extinction of Wild Maine blueberries and the local culture that support them via a virtual and physical Wild Blueberry Museum. Beginning in 2018, she is helping to develop the Maine Ag Data App, a project to create a mobile interface for 4 season food production in Maine. Her time in the forests, and on and in the water (liquid or frozen) help maintain her own wild connection to her homeland.

You can find more information about Jon at his home page.

Old school new media Jon Ippolito would rather be judged by what he says today than what he's done in the past. A footsoldier in the battle between network and hierarchic culture, Jon Ippolito is an artist, curator, and co-founder of Still Water at the University of Maine. Professor of New Media and Director of the Digital Curation program at the University of Maine. Cofounder of the Variable Media Network and Learning With AI; former Guggenheim curator; co-author of books At the Edge of Art and Re-collection. Jon Ippolito is Professor of New Media and Director of the Digital Curation program at the University of Maine. His current projects--including the Variable Media Network, ThoughtMesh, and his co-authored books At the Edge of Art and Re-collection--aim to expand the art world beyond its traditional preoccupations. One of many footsoldiers in the battle between network and hierarchic culture, Jon Ippolito is an artist, curator, and co-founder of the Still Water lab at the University of Maine. His current projects--including Learning With AI, the Variable Media Network, and his co-authored books At the Edge of Art and Re-collection--aim to expand academia and the art world beyond their traditional preoccupations. Jon Ippolito (three.org/ippolito) has made a career out of pursuing vocations for which he is drastically underqualified. Following short-lived stints as a dancer and astrophysicist, he has co-created online artworks seen at the Walker Art Center and ZKM, curated exhibitions of video art and virtual reality at the Guggenheim, and published a regular column in ArtByte magazine. Although a full professor, he could not match his father's feat of attaining the same rank as a high-school dropout. Jon Ippolito is a new media artist, writer, and curator who builds networks to help creative people battle tech monopolies, academic insularity, and planned obsolescence. Winner of Tiffany, Lannan, American Foundation, and the inaugural Thoma Digital Art award, he co-founded the University of Maine's Digital Curation program, a digital badges platform, and the Learning With AI toolkit for adapting to a post-ChatGPT world. Ippolito has given over 200 presentations, co-authored the books At the Edge of Art and Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, and published 70 chapters and articles in periodicals from Artforum to the Washington Post. The inaugural winner of the Thoma Arts Writing prize, Jon Ippolito has exhibited artwork with collaborative teammates Janet Cohen and Keith Frank at venues such as the Walker Art Center and ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. 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, ThoughtMesh, and the books At the Edge of Art and Re-collection--that aim to expand the art world beyond its traditional confines. Jon Ippolito is an artist, writer, and curator who teaches New Media and Digital Curation at the University of Maine. Winner of Tiffany, Lannan, American Foundation, and Thoma awards, Ippolito is co-founder of the Variable Media Network for preserving new media art, UMaine's Digital Curation and Just-in-Time Learning programs, and Learning With AI, a toolkit for educators and students that makes it easy to filter for AI assignments and resources by discipline or purpose. Ippolito has given over 200 presentations, co-authored the books At the Edge of Art and Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, and published 80 chapters and articles in periodicals from Artforum to the Washington Post. His AI focus is creators—writers, programmers, and media makers—and how the technical, aesthetic, and legal ramifications of generative AI empower and frustrate them. Jon Ippolito (@jonippolito) is a new media artist, writer, and curator whose work has been recognized with awards from the Thoma, Tiffany, Lannan, and American Foundations. At the Guggenheim, he curated the first Internet commissions collected by a museum, curated the first art museum exhibition of virtual reality, and co-curated the 2000 Nam June Paik retrospective. Outspoken about the dangers of technological obsolescence and our shrinking public commons, he has published in periodicals ranging from the Art Journal to the Washington Post and chapters in over 20 anthologies. His books include At the Edge of Art (Thames & Hudson 2006) with Joline Blais and Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory (MIT 2014) with Richard Rinehart. Ippolito is Professor of New Media at the University of Maine, where he directs an all-online graduate Digital Curation program (https://DigitalCuration.UMaine.edu). Jon Ippolito is an artist, writer and curator born in Berkeley, California in 1962 who turned to making art after failing as an astrophysicist. After applying for what he thought was a position as a museum guard, Jon was hired in the curatorial department of the Guggenheim, New York, where in 1993 he curated Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium and subsequent exhibitions that explore the intersection of contemporary art and new media. In 2002 Jon joined the faculty of the University of Maine's New Media Department, where with Joline Blais he co-founded Still Water, a lab devoted to studying and building creative networks. His writing on the cultural and aesthetic implications of new media earned him the inaugural Thoma Arts Writing prize, and has appeared in The Washington Post, Art Journal and in his co-authored books At the Edge of Art and Re-collection. More at jonippolito.net. Jon Ippolito is a new media artist, writer, and curator whose work has been recognized with awards from the Thoma, Tiffany, Lannan, and American Foundations. At the Guggenheim he curated the first art museum exhibition of virtual reality and the 2000 Nam June Paik retrospective with John G. Hanhardt. As Professor of New Media at the University of Maine, Ippolito has founded a peer-to-peer digital badges initiative and a graduate Digital Curation program. At the Still Water lab co-founded with Joline Blais, he helped build social software such as the Variable Media Questionnaire, The Pool, ThoughtMesh, the Cross-Cultural Partnership, and Learning With AI. In over 200 presentations, Ippolito has spoken out on copyright maximalism, academic insularity, and technological obsolescence. He has published articles in periodicals ranging from the Art Journal to the Washington Post and chapters in over 20 books. Ippolito co-authored the book At the Edge of Art (Thames & Hudson 2006) with Blais and Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory (MIT 2014) with Richard Rinehart. Jon Ippolito hopes building networks will help keep digital culture alive and kicking--but he has his hands full in today's climate of unfettered media monopolies, accelerated obsolescence, and looming co-optation by academia. He is the digital doyen of The Variable Media Network, an international consortium of museums and archives that devises medium-independent strategies to preserve new media art. As grand vizier of The Open Art Network and Learning With AI, Ippolito works with digital artists and academics to promote an open architecture for the Internet and digital media. As chief constable of the Still Water lab at the University of Maine, he works with Co-director Joline Blais to enforce an expansive definition of networked art in the academia and the art world, as argued in their 2006 book At the Edge of Art. The recipient of Tiffany, Lannan, and American Foundation awards, he was named in 2015 the inaugural winner of the Thoma Arts Writing prize. Ippolito has exhibited artwork with collaborative teammates Janet Cohen and Keith Frank at the Walker Art Center, ZKM/Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Harvard's Carpenter Center, and the Yale Art and Architecture Gallery. As Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim Museum, he has 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 such as the Art Journal, Artforum, Flash Art, the Washington Post, and in his regular column for ArtByte magazine. He and his work have been cited in a dozen New York Times and a dozen Wired articles, but that didn't stop his tenure committee from asking why he hadn't published in more academic journals. His book Re-collection, co-authored with Richard Rinehart, argues that digital heritage of the last 30 years will be lost to history without a revolutionary approach to preserving culture.

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Jon Ippolito é artista, escritor e curador nascido em Berkeley, Califórnia, em 1962, que acabou fazendo arte depois de falhar como astrofísico. Depois de ter se inscrito para um posto que ele acreditava ser o de guarda do museu, Jon foi contratado pelo departamento de curadorias do Guggenheim, Nova York, onde ele curou Virtual Reality: An Emerging Medium [Realidade Virtual: Um Meio Emergente] e subsequentemente exposições que exploravam a interseção da arte contemporânea e das novas mídias. Em 2002 Jon passou a ocupar a cadeira de professor no departamento de Novas Mídias da Universidade de Maine, onde com a colaboração de Joline Blais fundou o laboratório Still Water, devotado ao estudo e à construção de redes criativas. Seus textos sobre as implicações estéticas e culturais das novas mídias foram publicadas nos jornais The Washington Post, Art Journal e em diversas revistas de arte. Para saber mais three.org/ippolito.

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