Artist Lecture - Joline Blais

Joline Blais will speak at Waterfall Arts on Monday, April 26 beginning at 7pm.  Blais, Associate Professor of New Media at UMaine, co-directs Still Water, and co-founded Long Green House. At the Edge of Art (2006), co-written with Jon Ippolito, investigates how new strategies of empowerment--execution rather than representation, arrest rather than entertainment--work in communities of new media artists, and how these practices reshape art and real world contexts. LongGreenHouse (2007), weaves the Wabanaki Longhouse, permaculture gardens, and networked collaboration into a hybrid "communiversity".

Blais' publications and creative work explore the overlap of digital culture, indigenous culture and permaculture. This cross-cultural braid suggests tribal and networked alternatives to conventional socio-political and cultural structures, and co-creates models of deep sustainability.