The Electoral College, a project focusing on the 2008 U.S. presidential election and democratic practice launched, on November 4 2007 in Iowa, a year in advance of the election, and in the months prior to the Iowa Caucuses. The Electoral College is a hybrid new media art|journalism project that recognizes the unique moment in history of this election, and the opportunities and challenges presented for democratic, civic engagement.

This web site is imagined as a headquarters from which to view the various parts of the project, and as an archive. Over the year, we will roll out a number of project elements. Scroll right and click on the arrows to view initial projects—and preview some in the works. Current projects include a Mac OSX widget and a YouTube channel that tracked the nomination process; and "When Luck Grows Hard: Real Life in the Fiction Capital of America," an essay by D.L. Pughe.

Exhibitions, projects and new media elements are currently in the works online, in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis-St. Paul and Denver, sites of the GOP and Democratic Party national political conventions.

The Electoral College:
Jon Winet, Director
Craig Dietrich, Associate Director
Mark NeuCollins, Contributing Artist
D.L. Pughe, Contributing Writer

Allen Spore, Associate

Chris Dibbern, Programming

Produced at the Intermedia Studios of The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Special thanks to
UI CLAS SAAH
Intermedia Area
Steven Strait

Graduate College
Writing University Expermental Wing

Academic Technologies
Les Finken
Greyson Purcell

Provisions Library, Washington, D.C.
Don Russell
Niels Van Tomme

Henrietta Pence

Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis

Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular, USC School of Cinema and Television
Erik Loyer