Adeline Newmann

Background

About Adeline Newmann

Hi! My name is Adeline (Ah-deh-leen), and I'm an interdisciplinary artist, immersive experience designer, educator, and researcher currently based in Michigan. Making immersive magic led me to pursue my MFA, where I am designing, prototyping, and making multi-sensory storytelling systems. combining experience design, new media, and interdisciplinary art! My research focuses are immersive, experiential pedagogy and sensory storytelling. I'm investigating how we learn through all our senses, and I'm especially interested in haptics/tactility, proxemics, motion, and peripheral vision. all building on my background in experimental animation, drawing, visual music, and video design. I have a BFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts (2012), and I designed and performed as a VJ and video designer in Estonia, including Tallinn Music Week (2013 and 2014), Estonian Music Days (2013), and Stalker Festival (2014), and in the US at venues including REDCAT and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, California. As an Imagineer (2014-2021), I was a Video Media Designer/VFX Designer with a focus on projection mapping and technical video integration (including in-field installation) for attractions in the US, Hong Kong, and Japan. I also worked as a conceptual SFX designer on an in-development attraction for Japan. I am in the second year of my MFA at Michigan State University, where I teach undergraduate Drawing Foundations, Color and Design Foundations, and Advanced Drawing in the school of Art, Art History, and Design. I am currently a Graduate Fellow at the Residential College in Arts and Humanities (2022-2023), and I will be the Graduate Arts Fellow at the MSU Library’s Digital Scholarship Lab this Summer (2023).