AR 555 Projects in New Media

5-day residencies are mandatory for low residency MFA candidates. Students are on the campus of the Alabama Center for the Arts to make and present their work to each other, and faculty, and to plan their next semesters study from Tuesday through Saturday. Critiques, lectures, research groups, and student presentations provide the foundation of each residency. Shared interaction and evaluation maintain a rigorous critical and creative environment where individual artists can succeed. This course investigates a variety of concerns of artists working with new media and forms of art through research and practice. This course takes an integrated approach to contemporary media practices by synthesizing fine arts with electronic and digital technologies. Through technical innovation and interdisciplinary engagement, the course provides context for the relationship of media practices and other artistic disciplines. Using the platform of electronic and digital technologies students are encouraged to create projects grounded in traditional and experimental methods within the visual arts. The course offers students courses in video, animation, interactive design, as well as emerging technologies, such as 3D scanning, editing and printing.

Credits

3