Announcement

“Visual Effects in Film – Art, Craft, and (Sometimes) Bad Movies”

February 16, 2017 By Samantha Valdivia '19

On Friday, February 17th in Kresge Auditorium at 12:30- 1:30 pm, Dave Fogler, a Bowdoin alumnus of 1990, will be accompanied by the Industrial Light + Magic in 1997 as a miniature model maker on Starship Troopers. During his eight years in ILM’s traditional model shop, Dave contributed to eight motion pictures including Star Wars: Episodes I and II, Galaxy Quest, Artificial Intelligence: AI, and Pearl Harbor. In 2005, Dave transitioned to digital modeling and texturing for Star Wars: Episode III and has gone on to supervise the work on all five Transformers films, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Avatar, Pacific Rim, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Currently, Fogler is the Associate Visual Effects Supervisor on Transformers: The Last Knight.

A Maine native, Fogler has a B.A. from Bowdoin College and a Masters of Fine Arts from The University of California at Berkeley.

Logistics: Friday, February 17th in Kresge Auditorium, Visual Arts Center at 12:30- 1:30 pm.

Installation: #CarbonFeed by John Park & Jon Bellona

April 1, 2015 By Hannah Rafkin '17

#CarbonFeed

Reception: Monday, April 13 from 7 – 8 PM in Daggett Lounge

Installation on view at the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library from April 13 – May 13

Photo by John Park

#CarbonFeed is a new media project that challenges the perception that the online world is disconnected from physical reality. Artists John Park and Jon Bellona reveal the environmental consequences of online activity by visualizing carbon emissions triggered by tweeting, sonifying Twitter feeds and correlating tweets with data visualization.

#CarbonFeed encourages the Bowdoin community to participate in the instillation by tweeting #carbonfeed and #bowdoin from April 13 – May 13. Your tweets will trigger the installation to emit 0.02g/C02e.

Learn more about #CarbonFeed, John Park, and Jon Bellona.

Project supported by Lectures and Concerts and through contributions from DCSI, Visual Arts, Music, Art History, Environmental Studies, Physics, and Government.

Announcing the Fall Hackathon!

November 5, 2014 By jgieseki

Our fall Hackathon will be held Wednesday, November 12th, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the third floor of the VAC! All Bowdoinites are welcome!

A hackathon is a space for programmers and designers, from novices to experts, to collaborate intensively on software projects. Come start or work on a project, learn a new coding language, visualize data, or how to protect your online privacy! The digital humanities and social science course students will be working on their projects, and local citizen hackers from Code4Maine (http://dash.code4maine.org/) will be in attendance as well. Faculty and students alike are invited. No prior experience is necessary.

ICPSR Data Fair 2014: Powering Sustainable Data Access

September 28, 2014 By jgieseki

Drop in the week of October 6-9, 2014 for one or several webinars offered by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Topics include teaching with data, data management, data sharing, sensitive data, ICPSR datasets, and more. Stop by to view the one-hour webinar presentations of your choice! All webinars are being held in H-L Library, Second Floor, Room 7. For a full schedule and descriptions of the webinars, see ICPSR Data Fair 2014.

Questions? Contact Barbara Levergood.

Event: Matthew Booker’s Talk “Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally?”

September 4, 2014 By mjaneway

Why Did Americans Stop Eating Locally?

9/11/2014 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Sills Hall, Smith Auditorium
Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: Environmental Studies
Contact: Rosemary Armstrong
– Open to the Public –

In his talk Matthew Booker will explore why urban Americans radically changed their diets in the twentieth century. Tracing the American diet from local oysters to long distance burgers, he will suggest ways we can learn from this history as we rethink today’s and tomorrow’s food.

Matthew Booker is an associate professor of History at North Carolina University, and a specialist in Environmental History and Western North American History.

For more information on this event, please see the website