Owen Smith Mike Scott Don Foresta Ray Hintz Ray received a B.S., M.S., and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wisconsin.
owen.smith@umit.maine.edu
An Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art at the University of Maine.
mike.scott@umit.maine.edu
An instructor of New Media Studies at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine. He is the founder and director of ASAP Media Services, a multi-media
design group involved in the exploration, understanding, and implementation of the integration of technology and communication at the University of Maine.
Mike has a B.S. in Survey Engineering and an M.S. in Internet Engineering from Godard College.
foresta@wanadoo.fr
Don Foresta is presently Senior Research Fellow at the Wimbledon School of
Art under a three-year research fellowship from the Arts and Humanities
Research Board in the UK and professor of interactive multimedia art at the
Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Arts in the Paris area. He is a specialist in
art and science and has organised several conferences and events in the
field as well as publications on the question of the interface between the two.
Foresta currently is developing a permanent high band-width art network
using Internet 2 & 3 to connect art institutions internationally. As an
invited artist at Le Fresnoy, National Studio for Contemporary Arts,
France's only uniquely graduate level art school he began the project
called MARCEL in 1999. MARCEL is a permanent broadband interactive network
and web site dedicated to artistic, educational and cultural
experimentation, exchange between art and science and collaboration between
art and industry. The project can be seen at www.mmmarcel.org. It is
currently based in the Wimbledon School of Art and high speed connections
have begun between that school and other art institutions in Europe and
North America.
ray.hintz@umit.maine.edu
A professional land surveyor who focuses his practice on data collection. He is the author of several surveying software
programs used by approximately 25 department of transportations and their consultants. Ray currently teaches in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine.