Tad Macy: Artist: Digital Printmaker and Painter: Bowdoin College, IT

THADDEUS MACY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY @ BOWDOIN
	Home Recent Work Artist's Vitae Contact Data	Fine arts and technology are my two primary interests. I am a painter and printmaker and currently work with digital media. My work is hand drawn using a stylus on a pressure sensitive digital drawing (Wacom) tablet attached to my computer. Editions are printed on archival quality fine art rag paper using inkjet printers. I call this "digital printmaking" because it feels very similar to the process of plate and stone lithography. My recent work shows a small selection of the digital prints. Please contact me if you would like to learn more. My work has been included in three All Maine Biennial exhibitions held at the Portland Museum of Art, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and the University of Southern Maine Art Gallery; and shown in many locations in Maine including the Payson Gallery at Westbrook College (now the University of New England Art Gallery ) and the Farnsworth Museum. I studied drawing, printmaking and painting at the undergraduate and graduate level, and with several regional artists. As a technologist, I am involved in creating new web sites and tools to support faculty instruction and research. After more 15 years in leadership roles, this was a return to my primary interests. I prefer working with open source LAMP tools and work mostly in Drupal, PHP, Perl, MySQL, JavaScript and Google maps. One example of is the Maine Watersheds Web, a Drupal site with a complex back end that gathers data from remote field equipment and graphs it in near real-time. Other sites are the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies which hosts an electronic journal; The Androscoggin River - A Living History which shows research work of Bowdoin students who also work with local teachers and students to teach and learn (see here); and more.
			Linked Profile THADDEUS MACY (TAD) SOFTWARE DESIGNER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BOWDOIN COLLEGE 9630 COLLEGE STATION BRUNSWICK, MAINE 04011 USA EMAIL: macy@bowdoin.edu IM: TdMacy PHONE: (207) 725-3614 FAX: (734)448-7159
		"What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you." -- George Matthew Adams, Author
		''The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.'' -- Edward R. Murrow
		"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein
		''Man knows so much and does so little.'' -- Buckminster Fuller
		''As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.'' -- Albert Einstein
		''Almost everybody feels at peace with nature: listening to the ocean waves against the shore, by a still lake, in a field of grass, on a windblown heath. One day, when we have learned the timeless way again, we shall feel the same about our towns, and we shall feel as much at peace in them, as we do today walking by the ocean, or stretched out in the long grass of a meadow.'' -- Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building (1979)

		''Democracy can be sustained only as long as most of the people are able to discern the truth most of the time.'' -- TTM	Note: This is my personal web space. Bowdoin College generously provides personal web space for all students, faculty and staff. Opinions expressed here are my own and not those of Bowdoin College.
		"Life wouldn't be so complicated if it were longer." -- TTM