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The 2012 Oxford Kinetics Festival: April Fools’ Day filled with Rube Goldberg machines, monster bicycles, kinetic art, water bottle rockets, lots of chicken dance, a nine foot teeter totter on wheels, Happen Inc’s ToyLab, weather balloon rides for toys, prizes and more! With your help we’ll be even bigger and better in April 2013!
http://www.OxfordKineticsFestival.org
The Kenyan government has announced a new initiative to make one of Africa’s most prominent political and financial capitals, Nairobi, a new center for computer game development. Miami University is about to embark on that journey with them, as part of a new opportunity to study and design games abroad.
The move is well-timed, as Africa [...]
[ November 7, 2011 10:00 am to November 8, 2011 6:00 pm. ] Starcom Worldwide, the media division of Publicis, will be on campus for presentations and an information session on November 7th and 8th.
We will be presenting a Media 101 presentation to relevant classes and organizations. This will include an overview of the media profession, and the function of a media expert. The media 101 presentation is [...]
The developing discourse around visual studies, visual culture, and image literacy assumes the primacy of the image in an increasingly multi-modal, multi-media experience of our daily technological experience. The scopic regimes of modernity entrained the twentieth century to assume the primacy of vision, rendering the haptic, olfactory, and auditory modes mere marginalia as the critical interrogation of the [...]
Richard Elaver
Bio-digital Design
7pm, Thursday, Sept 22
Room 100, Art Building
Growing objects
Starting with computation and natural mutation as sources for design development, my work integrates mathematical structures that replicate variance in nature. Each form is built through an unfolding expression of potential, revealing semi-determinant authorship through similarities and deviations, allowing the affordances of unpredictability to be a [...]
Modular Design Workshop
Taking complexity apart…
Friday – Sunday : September 23 – 25, 2011
Spend 48 hrs turning ideas into objects. Experiment with laser cutters,
Computer Controlled Fabrication Equipment and 3D Printers. In small
teams, meet the challenge of a design problem through making.
One weekend, intense teamwork, rapid design prototyping.
Register now, space is limited! tonskij@muohio.edu
Workshop Leaders:
Richard Elaver
Technology [...]
ENG/IMS 407, Interactive Business Communication, Spring 2012
This new course will focus on the question, How are interactive technologies, social media, virtual workspaces, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google +, etc., changing business communication? Students will conduct research on this question, but will also produce business communication using interactive and digital technologies. Students will gain knowledge and experience [...]
We are proud to announce the AIMS Digital Innovation Campus will open in January of 2012. This campus, modeled after Miami University’s Luxembourg Campus, will offer a semester-long immersive experience for Miami students in the Bay Area. AIMS plans to bring a cohort of students (initially 20-30, but ultimately more) to live, work, study, play, [...]
The Miami Design Collaborative, which officially started in January 2009, has been assigned it’s first official home on the campus of Miami University. Thanks to the generosity of the School of Fine Arts and Dean Jim Lentini, we’ll have space in Hiestand Hall, in collaboration with the Hiestand Galleries. The brainstorming/conferencing room will be a [...]