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...warriors overseas. "The stresses of deployment might be softened if spouses, and especially children, could conduct simple conversations with their loved ones in immediate times of stress or prolonged absence," says the Pentagon solicitation. "We are looking for innovative applications that explore and harness the power of advanced interactive multimedia computer technologies to produce compelling interactive dialogue between service members and their families via a PC- or Web-based application using video footage or high-resolution 3-D rendering...
...Multimedia: How New Orleans Has Changed...
Despite this demonstrated interest in the subject matter, Harvard students can face organizational challenges to pursuing new media academically. J. D. Connor ’92, the concentration advisor for the VES Department, explains that often when students are interested in multimedia design, “they’ve gone to MIT, which has a really robust media studies program,” whereas “Harvard tends not to have a lot of that.” Though the VES concentration’s film/video track allows students to study a variety of new media concepts such...
Still, the lack of an academic department devoted to new media has not stopped some students from pursuing multimedia studies. Last year, Charlie I. Miller ’08 devised a VES senior thesis that retold the Faust legend as what he calls “a multimedia production that fully integrated video and live performance.” The project, entitled “Username: Faust,” heavily utilized YouTube and other Internet components to convey a virtual reality world that replaced the spiritual realm of the original Faust myth. Miller praises his adviser, VES Professor Alfred...
...until he was putting together “Username: Faust.” Without pursuing new media with his thesis, Miller says, he would have been unable to study new media in the same depth or capacity due to a lack of classes in this area. As the Resident Multimedia Specialist at the Denver Theatre Company in Denver, Colo., Miller continues to work within the medium and suggests that the best way for students to pursue new media is through personal projects or to look outside of Harvard, potentially cross-registering...