News and Announcements

DMI invites you read a selection of essays from the fall 2009 Design Seminar 1 class taught by Associate Professor Joe Quackenbush.  read more »

• Alison Kotin, "Telling Stories: Digital Personae and Self-Discovery 1998-2000"
• Andrew Ellis, "The Obsserver and the Observed"
  

DMI is pleased to announce its spring 2010 Media Tech Tonic lecture series. All lectures are free and open to the public.  read more »

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DMI welcomes Joseph Auner, Chair and Professor of Music at Tufts University, for its third lecture in the fall 2009 Media Tech Tonic Lecture Series on Wednesday, December 2 at 6:30 with "Losing Your Voice: Sampled Speech and Song from the Uncanny to the Unremarkable."  read more »

DMI invites you to visit its new channel on Vimeo, the video hosting network, at http://vimeo.com/channels/dmi.  read more »

In October, professor Jan Kubasiewicz, DMI Coordinator, was invited to present a lecture titled "Design for Communication and Interaction: The Core Concepts of Dynamic Media and Its Pedagogy" at the International Conference on Interaction Design (ICID) in Beijing. Organized by Tsinghua University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Hong-Kong Polytechnic University the ICID conference was the first such event in China focused exclusively on the discipline of interaction design, and gathering designers and educators from America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.  read more »

DMI welcomes Dr. Margaret Livingstone, Professor of Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, for its second lecture in the fall 2009 Media Tech Tonic Lecture Series on Thursday, November 12 at 6:30 with "What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain".  read more »

This past July associate professor Brian Lucid was invited to present "Onomatopeoia" at TypeCon 2009, the annual gathering of the Society of Typographic Aficionados in Atlanta, GA.

This case study presentation serves to display a collection of short typographic movies -- created by sophomore-level typography students -- that explore the visual representation of musical structure and the dynamic relationship between typography and the spoken word.  read more »

The Dynamic Media Institute congratulates Mahesh Gudapakkam, Dan Johnston, Mingxi Li, Colin Owens, and Agata Stadnick on the successful completion of their MFA. The five presented their final work and thesis documents to the DMI review board in May. Best of luck to our new graduates! Learn more about each project by clicking on the title below.

Mahesh Godapakkam
A Learner-Centered Approach to Teaching Programming

Dan Johnston  read more »

DMI alumni Colin Owens (MFA, 2009) and current student David Tames (MFA, 2011) have generously offered their expertise as instructors in two courses this summer.  read more »

DMI Coordinator and Professor of Design, Jan Kubasiewicz, is enjoying a busy summer.  read more »

The Dynamic Media Institute, graduate design program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, invites you to its free 2009 annual lecture by Hugh Dubberly.  read more »

The event comprised lectures, exhibitions and workshops by an international group of graphic designers, product designers, artists and scientists on the topics of design for human diversity and social inclusion.  read more »

DMI faculty and conference chairpersons Brian Lucid and Joe Quackenbush are pleased to announce plans for the AIGA Design Educator conference Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media.  read more »

Carolin Horn's 2007 thesis project Anymails was recently profiled in an article by Wired News. More information about Carolyn's email visualization system is available on her Anymails website.

The Dynamic Media Institute, graduate design program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, invites you to a free lecture by David Small.  read more »