The James and Mary Wesley Center for New Media Education and Research promotes digital design for education, art, and entertainment. Faculty in the Center write about, teach, and practice interaction design in academic, business, and non-profit settings. Their accomplishments include: collaboration with the American Film Institute and Turner Broadcasting on new forms of interactive entertainment, consultation with UNESCO on media projects, and the curatorship of the SIGGRAPH 2000 Art Gallery. The Center is also a place for the theoretical and historical investigation of both old and new media. In addition to the digital realm, the Center is interested in film, television, performance art, and literary forms, all of which are now in a cultural dialogue with digital media.

Current activities of the Center include a visiting lecture series on “Digital Art and Technology” and support for research initiatives by the Center’s faculty, including Janet Murray, Diane Gromala, Kenneth Knoespel, Ian Bogost, Michael Nitsche, Michael Mateas, Sha Xin Wei, Eugene Thacker, and Jay David Bolter.

This work is made possible by the generous and visionary support of James and Mary Wesley.