John P. Bell
Encyclopedia
John P. Bell is a digital artist, educator, and software developer
who is presently on the faculty of the New Media department and Innovative Communication Design program at the University of Maine
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at the University of Maine's Still Water
lab in 2003. In 2008 he was added to the faculty of the University's New Media department and in 2011 he became one of the founding faculty of the University's Innovative Communication Design program.
, Owen Smith, Joline Blais, Mike Scott, and others that has been described by the Chronicle of Higher Education as a "new avenue for new-media scholars to do their jobs."
In 2007 Ippolito and Bell redesigned the Variable Media Questionnaire, a tool that encapsulates the variable media paradigm for preservation of art pioneered by Ippolito in the 1990s. Bell designed the third generation of the tool, again applying software design principles to art by re-envisioning the variable media paradigm to treat an artwork as a system of modular components with defined interactions and parameters.
Software developer
A software developer is a person concerned with facets of the software development process. Their work includes researching, designing, developing, and testing software. A software developer may take part in design, computer programming, or software project management...
who is presently on the faculty of the New Media department and Innovative Communication Design program at the University of Maine
University of Maine
The University of Maine is a public research university located in Orono, Maine, United States. The university was established in 1865 as a land grant college and is referred to as the flagship university of the University of Maine System...
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History
Bell began developing software to support digital humanities and artArt
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
at the University of Maine's Still Water
Still Water
Still Water is a research and development laboratory at the New Media Department of the University of Maine that studies and builds networks for artists, academics, and other creative professions...
lab in 2003. In 2008 he was added to the faculty of the University's New Media department and in 2011 he became one of the founding faculty of the University's Innovative Communication Design program.
Software
Bell has argued that the principles and methods used in the development of Open-Source Software can be applied to other areas of creative production. He applied this theory in the production of The Pool, an online project design workspace conceived of by Jon IppolitoJon Ippolito
Jon Ippolito is an artist, educator, new media scholar, and former curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Ippolito studied astrophysics and painting in the early 1980s, then pursued Internet art in the 1990s...
, Owen Smith, Joline Blais, Mike Scott, and others that has been described by the Chronicle of Higher Education as a "new avenue for new-media scholars to do their jobs."
In 2007 Ippolito and Bell redesigned the Variable Media Questionnaire, a tool that encapsulates the variable media paradigm for preservation of art pioneered by Ippolito in the 1990s. Bell designed the third generation of the tool, again applying software design principles to art by re-envisioning the variable media paradigm to treat an artwork as a system of modular components with defined interactions and parameters.