Media Labs

Below is a brief listing of Media labs or collaborative studios that exist at other Academic Institutions.

Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon -mission "We perceive a world where artists and scientists collaborate directly with each other to create innovative interdisciplinary work and projects that have a positive impact on society, technology and culture." -studio web site

Narrative Media Program at U of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana Organized as a discipline area in the School of Art and Design. "Its mission is to foster speculative research and innovative teaching in these five areas, as they relate to the visual arts: new technologies, new languages, new audiences, new alliances, and new pedagogy." -project web site

Media Lab at MIT "The Media Laboratory opened its doors in the Wiesner Building, designed by I.M. Pei, in 1985. In its first decade, much of the Laboratory's activity centered around abstracting electronic content from its traditional physical representations, helping to create now-familiar areas such as digital video and multimedia. The success of this agenda is now leading to a growing focus on how electronic information overlaps with the everyday physical world. The Laboratory pioneered collaboration between academia and industry, and provides a unique environment to explore basic research and applications, without regard to traditional divisions among disciplines." -media lab web site

University of Michigan Media Union "The Collaborative Technologies Lab is engaged in research and development of tools which facilitate collaboration, focusing on the needs of research and learning environments." - project web site

Interative Design Institute - Ivrea, Italy "Interaction Design Institute Ivrea develops our capacity to innovate new products and services. These services help us interact with each other in new ways - through communications, network and information technology. Interaction-Ivrea, which combines a masters programme and clusters of future concept projects, is part of Telecom Italia's Progetto Italia." -project web site

Stanford University Media X "Media X is a campus wide network at Stanford University that coordinates the study and design of interactive technology. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of researchers, faculty and students, Media X influences the next generation of interactive technology relevant to commerce, learning and entertainment." -web site

Advanced Computing Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University "Established in the 1970s, ACCAD is a multi-disciplinary center where scientific investigation meets aesthetic ideals, and everyone is encouraged to use technology in innovative ways. A leader in computer technology that supports research in the arts and sciences, ACCAD forms partnerships with visual and performing artists, designers, art historians and critics, computer scientists, engineers and architects." -center web site

Conceptual Information Arts (CIA) at San Francisco State University "An experimental studio arts program that prepares students to work with the intersection of art, science, technology, and theoretical analysis of cultural developments." (-project web site) Like the narrative media program at UIUC, this program uses a conceptual base of ideas as it's center and progresses through new media as they emerge. They have a comprehensive list of links to related projects and programs. Following are links to three relevant subpages of their links index.

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