We are hard at work building the schedule for iDMAa’s Folk Media Conference and Festival at Winona State. Among the highlights this year, we will be providing:

A Multimedia Performance at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum featuring award-winning composer and artist, Dameun Strange.

An evening of musical performances featuring James Patrick of Slam Academy and a media archaelogical jam session featuring John C.S. Keston, Mike Hodnick, Erik Tinberg, Lucas Melchior (Chris LeBlanc and Shawna Lee on visuals).

A performance and talk by Winona musician and songwriter Dante DeGrazia of Sleeping Jesus, Texas Toast, Doug Boodle, and Karate Chop, Silence.

A keynote address by sound artist and research Anna Nacher.

A variety of workshops on field recordings and nature sounds, networked based improvisational performance, digital music production, and other areas of digital folk practice.

A series of talks, demonstrations, and installations on collage art, slow scan television, radio performance, folk tales for interactive media, FortePan US, and other topics.

A community session, highlighting local resources from our partners like Engage Winona, The Art of the Rural, the Sandbar Storytelling Festival, UnderAcademy College, and others.

Registration (not required, but encouraged): Folk Media Form.