Walked in late (see Virtues of Virtuosity post re. shuttle buses) to IDEO’s Tom Kelley’s “Design for the Future” presentation opening the Friday morning session of iDMAa 09, and it felt like déjà vu all over again. And it’s not because it reminded me about all the times I arrived late to a […]

Sometimes the most analog of things can prove so vexing, even in the digital world. That proved the case this morning, when some of the academic world’s top digital media gurus were stymied in their effort to get to this morning’s session of iDMAa 09’s conference on the campus of Ball State […]

Dale Herigstad may be a digital media guru and design visionary, but he’s – surprisingly – not a techie. At least that’s what he says, though I have my own suspicions about his technological prowess, he claims that he’s really not a gearhead, and doesn’t know how most of the systems he designs […]

It’s everything. That’s right, a panel of digital arts gurus and practitioners speaking during a panel at the iDMAa 09 conference Thursday afternoon said their own backgrounds emphasized general studies and liberal arts that all fused together in a greater whole.

Despite the art school appearances of Dale Herigstad’s shocking white hair and all-black […]

That’s what Dale Herigstad just told a roomful of digital media gurus and artists during his opening keynote at the iDMAa 09 conference in Muncie, Indiana. Hergistad, who’s day job is chief creative officer of WPP’s Schematic, always pushes the digital media envelope when he presents, but this morning he said he’s actually […]

That’s how Ball State University President Jo Ann Gora kicked off the International Digital Media Arts Association’s “@ The Digital Edge” conference here today on the BSU campus. Actually, it was former Democratic National Committee Chairman and one-time U.S. presidential candidate Howard Dean who said that when Gora introduced him at another function […]