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Artist Alley
A proposed permanent market space on campus where students could set up tables and booths to sell prints and artwork on weekends or throughout the semester. This could also be used to get feedback and suggestions from other students, or to just hang out and share ideas with other creative people.




Eric Hu http://erichu.tumblr.com/
Bi-Weekly Concept Sketches
Drawing themes picked every few weeks by students, with the possibility of posting submitted sketches on the bulletin board in lab 201.




Figure Drawing
These workshops would be free with basic art supplies provided if needed, and the models would be clothed volunteers doing short 3-5 minute dynamic poses. Snacks could possibly be provided. ArtFront has offered to co-sponsor the event by providing additional funds and assistance finding professional models if necessary, and Prof. Adam Bryant also offered to share his knowledge of drawing resources. Additional people to possibly contact on campus are Prof. Christopher Oakley, Prof. Tamie Beldue from the Art Department and Prof. Igor Roussanoff from the Drama Department.




Video and Interactive Projects
A 48-hour hackathon, projection mapping installation outside Zeis, or a film project collaboration with the Mass Communication Department are some possible project ideas.




Game Design Project
The Computer Science Department's student chapter ACM has expressed potential interest in collaborating to design video games with new media students. Some game jam possibilities involve a virtual reality demo, a 2D platformer, or a mobile game.




Music Jams
Based on surveys conducted in the past, people have expressed interest in more music-related events. Music isn't really given as much emphasis in the New Media department even though there seem to be a lot of talented musicians and music video people. To be fair, there is an entire Music Department that is probably much better suited to handle the subject matter, but NMAC is open to suggestions for ways we can be useful.

Sean is working on adding audio equipment to the Video Editing Suite, and if the lobby monitor ever gets fixed, that thing has speakers attached to it that anyone can use for installation projects. This website is intended to be pretty flexible and can handle mp3 files and YouTube music videos. The new media Facebook page is also a place where anyone can post stuff. If anyone is willing to volunteer to help manage audio file sharing or create a sister site dedicated to sound projects, NewMAC could use an Audio Manager.




Project Collaboration Network
Professional designers and artists frequently work on teams or collaborations. There are a lot more skilled individuals around campus willing to collaborate than you may realize, but it can be difficult to reach out and connect with them. Sending awkward cold-call emails, posting on Facebook, or creating flyers generally doesn't work out very well. If a solid collaboration network could be established with alumni, student organizations, and other departments, it might make it possible to help everyone involved find contacts and specialized commissions. This would be especially helpful for graduates just out of college.




YouTube Movie Reviews, Game Walkthroughs, Remixes, Tutorials, Podcasts
NewMAC has a YouTube channel set up, but with ongoing classes we don't really have time to edit interesting videos on a regular weekly basis. If anyone wants to try starting a series of short videos on any subect matter tangentially related to new media topics, the channel remains open for student use. Videos don't have to be formal or about UNCA, and you don't have to stamp the New Media Arts Council logo on your videos. Please just don't use copyrighted music or stuff that would cause legal problems for us.




History of MMAS/New Media Project
Many students don't really know much about the New Media program's history as the MMAS program, and any evidence of the program existing before 2009 is no longer available online. It would be cool to create an experimental anthology piece about MMAS or a condensed history showing how the ecclectic field of New Media came to be. We would probably ask for submissions of random short 3-10 second clips of video, animation, gifs, stop-motion, rotoscoping, vines, live action, found footage, glitch art, cameraless techniques, music, etc. Clips from class projects would also work. The weirder the submissions, the better.

Here's some examples of the general overall effect we are going for: