Art as Antibody
A Redefinition of Art for the Internet Age

Indigenous Domain Beyond the Commons and Other Colonial Paradigms

Joline Blais

Fiction writer Joline Blais is an Assistant Professor of New Media at UMaine and co-founder of Still Water for network art and culture. She previously directed Digital Media Studies at NY Polytechnic University and introduced media studies in SCPS at NYU. Blais' research and creative work explores new narrative and poetic forms, and includes The Edge of Art (March 2006), which examines that ways digital technologies have reshaped art. She is currently working on Babel/Babble, poetry generated from infant speech; Sorties, a novel which retells of the story of the Biblical Ruth in the context of race & white ethnicity; as well as ways to link new technologies to indigenous storytelling and ritual.