Mission Statement

Hello!
The New Media Arts Council is an awesome student group committed to providing resources for New Media students and alumni, hosting exhibitions and events, encouraging innovation, and organizing volunteering opportunities. NewMAC also aims to network with local organizations and connect the student community with professional guest speakers. Our officers communicate with the faculty in an effort to expand opportunities for displaying work and provide access to better facilities, technology, internships, and post-grad options.

Even though it sometimes seems like web designers and computer science majors have little in common with animators or filmmakers, it seems fair to say everyone who takes New Media classes likes creating and discovering amazing stuff. NewMAC will continue to celebrate originality and the diversity of people's interests. Meetings and events remain open for anyone to drop in.




Goals for 2016-2017
• Host more contests, movie nights, and fun events
• Collaborate with other student organizations to organize events
• Sponsor a field trip to a conference, convention, or film festival
• Increase participation, collaboration, and extra-curricular involvement within the department
• Develop a more interactive space where students can share ideas and display their creations
• Promote student-led group projects, experimentation, innovation, and research
• Develop regularly occuring workshops, lab nights, and guest speaker events throughout the semester
• Improve communication within the department, especially concerning internship opportunities, guest speakers, senior projects, and notice for upcoming exhibitions
• Contribute to this department’s technology infrastructure and make it easier to get access to professional and inspirational resources, as well as tutors for any technical difficulties
• Acquire on-campus storage space
• Work with the faculty to develop scholarships and post-grad opportunities for New Media students
• Make New Media the most awesome department on campus!




Spring 2016 Achievements
• Prepared over eighty entries for display in the New Media Student Exhibition for the Nation Conference of Undergraduate Research
• Volunteeered at NCUR
• Sponsored a trip to the East Coast Gaming Conference
• Set up an interactive website for students to share ideas, artwork, and resources
• Met with potential faculty candidates and gave them a tour of the department
• Co-hosted a guest speaker event with Blue Echo
• Bedazzled Zeis Hall with sticky notes
• Provided art book reading materials in the lobby to pass time between classes
• Made the traditional Up All Night end of the semester celebration a success




2015 Accomplishments
• Assisted in the Spring Step into the Glitch Show, Arts Fest, and the Fall Juried Exhibition
• Reactivated the scarcely used lobby monitor for the purpose of displaying student work throughout the entire semester
• Provided students who were unable to make it into the Juried Exhibition a second chance they deserved to display their cool work
• Held three student workshops and two guest lecture events
• Volunteered to help set up Blue Echo's Arcade Night event
• Hosted creative contests and distributed cool prizes
• Worked towards establishing a logo, slogan, banner, YouTube account, and email
• Solicited better communication and involvement within the department, as well as collaboration opportunities with other clubs on campus
• Hosted various movie nights, volunteering opportunities, and other fun ongoing events
• Created a newsletter and information network to keep people in the department updated on relevant events and opportunities
• Put up two creative art installations consisting of pennies and post-it notes
• Met with the Chancellor to bring attention to the particular desire for New Media students to have a proper gallery space of their own, as well as the growing need to branch out from the increasingly overcrowded corner of Zeis Hall
• Up All Night




2014 Highlights
• Assisted in the Annual NM Juried Exhibition
• Participated in the Alltober, Something Dreadful, and Logo Design contests
• Hosted several guest speakers and Student Lecture Series workshops
• Volunteered at a haunted house
• Went on a fieldtrip to watch the Boxtrolls
• Attended the Asheville Comic Convention
• Helped promote a film screening for the Psychology department
• Offered tutoring and assistance in the labs
• Dinner at Asheville Pizza & Brewery
• Up All Night



More examples of past NewMAC events can be found here
Events Archive



Constitution
The official New Media Arts Council Constitution can be read here. Be forewarned, it's not terribly exciting.
NewMAC Constitution.pdf