PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island School of Design recently announced that it will
begin offering a Master of Fine Arts in Digital Media, scheduled to enroll its
first students in the fall of 2003. Bill Seaman, a digital-media artist and
a former professor of design/media arts with the University of California, Los
Angeles, has been named head of the new department. RISD faculty voted last
month to make the digital media program its own department. Seaman said in a
written statement that the goal of the program is to provide an environment
for artistic research and practice, focusing on the creative, expressive potentials
of digital media. About 30 spots will be available for the two-year program,
which will occupy space in RISD's new Center for Integrative Technologies in
downtown Providence. Applicants should have the equivalent of four years of
digital-media-related study, an education in media arts or a combined art/design
education. The deadline to apply is March 1. More information is available at
www.risd.edu/digital_media.cfm.
Heartlab chooses California
firm for optical storage
LOS GATOS, Calif. - Westerly-based Heartlab Inc. recently chose an optical-storage
product from PowerFile Inc. as a key part of Heartlab's medical-imaging storage
solution, called Storsafe. The product's features include a 200-disc capacity,
almost 1 terabyte of optical storage per unit, DVD-R drive technology for archiving
and a 19-inch rack mount design for solution integration and scalability. Robert
Petrocelli, chief executive officer of Heartlab, said the PowerFile product
provides flexibility and cost-effectiveness for its next-generation medical
imaging application.
