Join us this week in the NMC Spotlight as we get to know the Emerging Technology Studio (ETS) at The Ohio State University, and find out how they are pulling out the stops to keep their Arts Programs on the cutting edge.

The ETS is a collaborative initiative at the Ohio State University designed to infuse emerging technology into the Arts. The ETS is a unique program that serves not only faculty and graduate students in the College of the Arts and The Ohio State University, but also serves the greater Columbus community. It consists of three separate labs: one for faculty research and development, an intelligent classroom, and one for project presentation.

OSU College of the Arts has outstanding programs in music, dance, art, art education, history of art, design and theatre, and is the home of the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD). OSU Arts pride themselves in making effective use of cutting-edge technologies, and they are looking forward to the chance to show their NMC friends the exciting work they've been up to at the upcoming 2002 NMC Summer Conference.

ETS, our host New Media Center, is an ideal setting for this annual NMC meeting. The ETS provides state-of-the-art resources for faculty and students to incorporate the use of multimedia and emerging technologies in research, special projects, and teaching in the Arts, and they will be opening their doors for us. OSU Arts faculty and guest artists create, study, teach, perform, exhibit, research and archive, and we will have the chance to see and experience some of that work. With converging media and the virtual world, the creation of art and design continuously takes new forms that could only have been imagined just a short time ago.

The ETS has a solid track record of developing creative projects. Visit their Project Gallery, and while you are there, take a glimpse at "The Virtual Glass Computer" by Charles Csuri, our opening keynote speaker at the Summer Conference!