The digital world connects Fairbanks to a near instant realm of media influence and market choice. Internet connections provide users quick access to corporations and organizations, and custom designed web pages by local businesses such as Web Weavers provide clients a distinct visual identity, a web presence.

Some Internet sites are older information made into a new form; others are created directly for the digital medium. Tatiana Piatanova, Aida Khamzina, and Laura Hewitt present an experience created specifically for the digital age. Their designs demonstrate richly textured visualizations, a breadth of graphic scope and typography, with polished global sophistication. The results challenge and surprise a viewer’s experience and expectation.

Multimedia and other objects from Made in Fairbanks.

A compact disc can carry a tremendous amount of information in living color, moving images and sound that attracts, promotes, and educates the world about northern phenomena. UAF students of the Alaska Renaissance Project created The Serum Run, an educational game where users of all ages can take their own dog sled adventure. The Geophysical Institute recently developed a comprehensive teaching curriculum on the Aurora Borealis. Both projects are available on the, now, ubiquitous CD.

Try out the UA Museum Interpretive Learning Station where you will discover the collaborative design of Kirsten Stiehm and Roger Topp. Their animated billboard and suite of multimedia learning programs demonstrate that simplicity and natural elegance are universal design features and remain responsive to human behavior when artists meld programming technology with content.

View a list of participants from Made in Fairbanks

Guest Curators - read their statements:
Steve Bouta, Developing Invention
James Brashear, Ceramics
Jean Carlo, Native Arts
Wanda Chin, Multimedia
Peggy Ferguson, Performing Arts
Jennifer Jolis, Food Products
Len Kamerling, Filmmaking
John Manthei, Wood
Barry McWayne, Commercial Photography
David Mollett, Visual Applied Arts
Connie Page, Wood
Todd Sherman, Visual Applied Arts
Glen Simpson, Metal
Frank Soos, Writing
Suzanne Summerville, Ph.D., Music
Penny Wakefield, Fiber Works

Return to the Made in Fairbanks introduction.

Exhibitions