New Media teleconferences
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This page offers information on selected teleconferences offered by the University of Maine's New Media program.
How Green is Your Prompt?Ben Brumfield, Jon Ippolito, and Greg Nelson break down the science of comparing AI’s electricity and water use to everything from watching movies and scrolling TikTok to digitizing images, Zoom meetings, and uploading videos—while highlighting the difference between global and local impacts.
Honey, AI Shrunk the ArchiveDrawing on insights from the science of thermodynamics and software compression, New Media professor Jon Ippolito demonstrates how AI's mechanistic properties explain the dramatic impact it could have on the world's cultural heritage.
Bots, Ballots, and YouNew Media professor Jon Ippolito leads a workshop for the 2024 Maine Town Meeting with Michael Socolow on the impact AI could have on future elections.
Digital Curation in the Shadow of AIThis presentation features digital trailblazer and Whitney Curator of Digital Art Christiane Paul on how artists explore the boundaries and blindspots of artificial intelligence.
AI's Impact on 3d Games and Virtual EnvironmentsDartmouth XR guru and New Media alumnus John Bell explains how generative AI is revolutionizing immersive media, from animation to games to augmented and virtual reality. This talk includes cutting-edge demos that reveal the technical possibilities and ethical risks of these transformed 3d applications.
Q&A on AI-Generated MediaIn this question-and-answer session with AI artist and critic Eryk Salvaggio, New Media students seek up-to-date answers on pressing aesthetic, legal, and technological issues regarding AI-generated media.
Harnessing AI for Education: When Is It Appropriate?This presentation from UMaine AI features New Media professor Jon Ippolito and Husson professor and IEEE chair Julia Upton.
Making Images with AIThis New Media workshop demos a handful of these tools and entertains a discussion about how they might change art education as well as work prospects for creative professionals.
The Generative WorkplaceThis New Media workshop offers reports from working professionals on ways that ChatGPT and Midjourney are having an impact today on business, software, and art.
AI in the ClassroomThis New Media workshop from 4 April 2023 showed how generative AI like ChatGPT works and why it raises so many pedagogical and ethical questions. The presenters also introduced UMaine's Learning With AI initiative, including resources and a toolkit to help teachers and learners transition to this brave new world.
New Media Careers in 2022This New Media workshop features alumni working in the tech industry sharing possible career paths for graduates with a new media degree as well as advice for navigating life after graduation.
NFTs: Myth and RealityThis workshop helps make sense of the craze over Non-Fungible Tokens—crypto-tokens that have helped some digital artists sell their work for thousands and even millions of dollars.
Discover New Media Careers (2021)This New Media workshop from 28 January 2021 featured alumni working in the tech industry sharing possible career paths for graduates with a new media degree as well as advice for navigating life after graduation.
Code a Responsive WebsiteThis workshop on 6 December 2021 focused on creating a web page that looks good on desktop and mobile devices. Now that 70% of web browsing is mobile, it's critical that websites work on phone-sized screens as well as 4K monitors.
This hands-on webinar walks participants through applying a powerful open standard called CSS grid that makes it easy to build responsive web pages. The beauty of CSS grid is that it allows designers to code visually, arranging descriptive words to build complex layouts that scale gracefully between large and small screens.
Code a Mobile AppThis New Media workshop from 8 December 2020 walks participants through the creation of a cross-platform app in the form of a scavenger hunt. This app could be used to motivate students to find items of interest in a physical location (a nearby park) or online site (a museum website).
How to network for a jobNew Media alumnus and user experience designer Hong Yi Dong offers simple tips you can apply to network for a job after you graduate.