The Quiet Unnoticed - Ann DeMarle Sabbatical 2011-2013
1. The Quiet Unnoticed:
Thoughts on a Sabbatical Year
2011/2013
Ann DeMarle, demarle@champlain.edu
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2. For my old friend,
Jack Renaud
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3. For my Dad,
David J. DeMarle
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4. This is Just to Say
(after e.e.cummings)
My mother
walks
death's road
and she
who has given
such comfort
does not deserve
such pain.
For my Mom,
I,
Trudy A. DeMarle not knowing
her path,
can not
find my way.
Forgive me.
You are
my compass
and I...
I
have lost your directions.
—Ann DeMarle
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6. • Coast of Maine, July.
Travel •
•
Santa Fe, New Mexico, January.
Alps and Paris, Feb/March.
• “Art in Italy” an intercultural trip dedicated to viewing Italian art, hiking
in Italy, and creating art plein air, May/June.
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8. • Portland Museum of Art – specifically for the John Marin exhibit
• Albright-Knox
• Burchfield Penney Art Center – specifically for Charles
Burchfield’s work
• Georiga O’Keefe Museum for “Shared Intelligence: American
Painting and the Photograph”
• Louvre
• Musée d'Orsay
• Musée Marmottan Monet
• Strong National Museum of Play for its collection of historic
board games and early video games
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12. "You are dead—devoid of any emotional
attitude toward nature—wake up—be bold,
make bold caricatures & conventionalizations."
—Charles Burchfield
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44. Beyond the art books, programming manuals, and nature guides—influential books:
1. Karen Armstrong, A History of God
2. Bennet, Design Fundamentals for New Media
3. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of
Human Societies
4. Joanie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
5. Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself
6. Glassner, Interactive Storytelling
7. Hyde, Trickster Makes This World
8. Eric Kandel, In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New
Science of Mind
9. Steven Madoff (editor), Art School (Propositions for the
21st Century)
10. Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium
11. Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
12. Michael Pollan, A Place of My Own: The Architecture of
Daydreams and Second Nature
13. Patti Smith, Just Kids
14. Stevens, Making Alice for the iPad
15. George Miksch Sutton, To a Young Bird Artist: Letters
from Louis Agassiz Fuertes to George Miksch Sutton
16. Welch, From Idea to App: Creating iOS UI, Animations, and
Gestures
17. Hiram Williams, Notes for a Young Painter
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45. Poetry & others:
1. Leonard Cohen,
Book of Longing,
2. Madeline L’Engle,
The Ordering of Love,
3. Jack Gilbert,
Falling and Flying,
4. C.S.Lewis,
The Four Loves,
5. Michael McClure,
Mysteriosos and Other Poems,
6. Thomas Merton,
The Hero with a Thousand Faces,
7. Joyce Rupp and Barbara Loomis,
Rest Your Dreams on a Little Twig,
8. Vera Pavlova,
If There is Something to Desire
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46. Play! Mobile media covered a range of mechanics, audiences, and styles:
Games & Toys: Education:
Ancient Frog Alice for the iPad
Contre Jour DinoBoy
Drop7 Millie Was Here
Edge Numberlys
GeoSpin Audubon
IKAROS
Color Uncovered
Orba
Echo Explorer
PMonsters
Fungi Kingdom
Sneezies
Flowers for Van Gogh
Spider
Creation Media: Spirits Monet
FlipBook Lite #Swords and Sworcery
InspirePro Tiny Wings
Keynote Treemaker
Painting with Time Waking Mars
Paper by 53 Water?
SketchBook World of Goo
SketchClub ZenBound2
WallPaper Creator
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92. Studio visits, brainstorming sessions, linkages on projects.
1. DC & NYC meetings: USAID on BREAKAWAY, and in NYC director of Kristof ’s “Half the Sky” game effort: The
purpose of these visits will be to: 1). update the DC parties on the progress of BREAKAWAY and to seek linkages for distribution
and further funding of priorities, 2). In NYC discuss possible linkages between BREAKAWAY and the Kristof effort and perhaps
find ways our student teams could be involved with this project. May 8-10, 2012.
2. “Money Magazine” brainstorming session: Led event with students, staff, faculty, CFL and Money Magazine
guests to develop concepts for mobile/game app. Purpose of procuring EMC project, February 16, 2012.
3. “#BTVSMB Social Hack”: One of a small group of facilitator’s for a Social Media Breakfast group’s brainstorming
event led by Rich Nadworny, hosted at the EMC. Purpose to develop digital media concepts for Vermont’s social
problems, January 30, 2012.
4. IDEO visit: Introductory daylong meeting with IDEO team in Boston, Massachusetts with John Abele, goal to
establish linkages for the MFA program and the EMC, January 26, 2012.
5. 38Studios visit: Met Paul Mock in Providence, RI with goal to support linkages, January 25, 2012.
6. Archer Mayor brainstorming session: Consulted and attended event for purpose of procuring Summer EMC
project. January 20, 2012
7. Xerox Research: Presented and then met with researchers from Xerox to discuss potential collaboration, Rochester,
NY, November 17, 2011.
8. Second Avenue visit: Met with Tory Van Voorhis, CEO of Second Avenue an educational serious game
development company on their NSF grant for STEM games for K-12, goal to further establish linkages, November,
2012.
9. “Maker’s space” activities: Working with MFA faculty & EMC staff provided linkages and guidance that led to the
integration of activities into the Spring semester and becoming part of the Vermont Maker’s group. Linkages shall
continue into the Fall 2012 with the Vermont Maker’s Faire. http://vermontmakers.org/wpbdm-category/
vermont-maker-groups-and-spaces/
10. “Gadget Lab” brainstorming session: Led event with students, staff, faculty, and invitees John Cohn and John
Abele on concepts for the gift, Fall 2011.
11. Gift for MFA “Maker’s space”: Working with Dean Jeff Rutenbeck and Tere Gade, procured $60,000 gift, Fall 2011.
12. SIGGRAPH MFA booth: Led team of MFA students, EMC staff, and Graduate recruiter to brainstorm, design,
develop, deploy and attend to booth at SIGGRAPH for marketing the MFA program, August 2011.
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107. 1.“Time & Space Annihilated: Innovation, Communication &
Society”. Panelist at St. Michael’s College’s “Disconnect to
Reconnect: Digital Media Culture & Mental Health” panel.
Winooski, Vermont, March 29, 2012. http://www.slideshare.net/
anndemarle/innovation-communication-society
2.“My View: A Game-Changing Major”, CNN Schools of Thought
blog, co-written with Bill Johnson, March 22, 2012, http://
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Assumptions and Charting Directions”. Panel organizer and Tuesday, March 27, 9:00 a.m.
panelist at New England association of Schools and Colleges Students, faculty, and staff are invited to unp
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(NEASC) 126th annual meeting, Boston, Mass, December 7, 2011. technologies for 72 hours
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4.Organizer & presenter of 2-day student participation during Prof. Ann DeMarle, Director, Emergent Med
Images and Voices Of Hope (IVOH) World Summit “Mindful
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Media”, Haines Falls, NY, September 27-20, 2011: http:// Friday, March 30, 9:00 a.m.
ivoh.org/world-summit-2011-ivoh-youth
5.“Game Design Thinking for the Enterprise”. Presenter Xerox
Research, Rochester, NY, November 2011. http://
www.slideshare.net/anndemarle/game-design-thinking-for-the-
enterprise-10155719
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109. • Vermont Arts Council trustee
• Partnership for Advancing Computing Education,
founding IEEE CS liaison to NSF funded consortium of
organizations dedicated to advancing computing
education.
• IEEE Computer Society Board:
• Technical & Conference Activities Board,
• Education Activities Board,
• Awards Committee,
• IBM Faculty Award 2011, for BREAKAWAY, to recognize
“outstanding faculty and to promote innovative,
collaborative research in disciplines of mutual interest.”
Summer 2011.
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110. Exhibitions • ROCO Open Studio show, Rochester, NY, July 2012.
• One person show, All Souls Gathering, Shelburne, VT, Nov. 2012
• ROCO Members Show, Rochester, NY, Feb. 2013.
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114. Learn to Live in Loneliness
A man must get away
now and then
to experience loneliness.
Only those who learn how to live
in loneliness
can come to know themselves
and life.
I go out there and walk
and look at the trees and sky.
I listen to the sounds of loneliness.
I sit on a rock or stump
and say to myself,
"Who are you, Sandburg?
Where have you been,
and where are you going?"
— Carl Sandburg
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219. There Is No Rush
The theology of progress forces us to act before we are ready. We speak before
we know what to say. We respond before we feel the truth of what we know.
In the process, we inadvertently create suffering, heaping imprecision upon
inaccuracy, until we are all buried under a mountain of misperception.
But Sabbath says, Be still. Stop. There is no rush to get to the end, because we
are never finished. Take time to rest, and eat, and drink, and be refreshed.
And in the gentle rhythm of that refreshment, listen to the sound the heart
makes as it speaks the quiet truth of what is needed.
—Wayne Muller
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257. The Cosmic Dance
"When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating
birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we
see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love
in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old
frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash--at such times the awakening,
the turning inside out of all values, the 'newness,' the emptiness and the
purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of
the cosmic dance.
—Thomas Merton
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263. Gleaning
"Winnowing fear, restless, feral winds surge in my mind, shifting directions,
gathering force. I mistake it all for chaff—husks of failure and deprecation.
But this wind resounds from the ancient world and release has always been
gleaned from grains of doubt."
—Nancy Compton Williams
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325. Lessons from an old cat
We should not fool ourselves;
Death desires only life and this powerful planet continues on despite us.
The old cat dies; the Springers charge down the path giddy with freedom.
And from the forest trees the birds sing in a new day.
Each death forms a blanket cradling life to come;
The nurse pine falls as her saplings take root to rise into the sky she has opened.
Two toads part open the walk;
revealing the bolete and chanterelle that take residence for a single day.
A parent dies and is mourned as the grandchild first sees light;
And before her first breathe, those same genes determine her demise.
What I see is nothing new but ever so;
The rapture of one small planet in a universe of unknowns
—Ann DeMarle
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