By Dr. Geoff Bell, Associate Professor, MS Shanghai China campus Recently I brought my MS in Emergent Media students to a Hackerspace in Shanghai called XinCheJian (translates to “new workshop”). Their website describes it as follows: “Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places all around the world, where people can meet and have fun on their projects. […]
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By Erin Barnaby, MFA candidate ’14 Four MFA in Emergent Media students – Jessica Martin, Becky Colley, Jeffrey Turner, and Erin Barnaby – along with fifth member Emily McManamy, participated in the 24-hour Storyhack Vermont competition on October 19th. The competition began at 10am on Saturday morning when we met at 242 Main Street to […]
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This snippet is re-posted from the EMC’s “Games Take on Violence Against Women” blog, chronicling the milestones and international journeys of the BREAKAWAY electronic game project. Read the full post here. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— We are breathing fresh air into this blog these next two weeks. It has been quiet not because important work spreading BREAKAWAY wasn’t […]
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Get to know the students that are the driving force of the Emergent Media Center. Student Spotlight features one of our current students, highlights what they’re doing here, and some fun facts about them. Meet Alex Beauchesne. Alex is in his junior year and studies Game Programming. He hails from Dalton, MA. What brought you […]
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It seemed fitting over here on our new blog to get straight to the heart of what we do. Emergent media. What is it? Where is it? Who does it impact? What does it “look” like? Where is it going?
This video was produced in late 2011 by three MFA in Emergent Media students in their first semester in the program. Ross Gracia, Alex Daly, and Jessica Lynch have since successfully graduated from the program, but their short film still wonderfully encapsulates the question, “What is Emergent Media?”. Continue reading