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Key Features
- Experiment with emerging technologies, from video and sound to interactive media.
- Blend conceptual thinking with innovative tools to push the boundaries of art.
Create at the Edge of What’s Possible.
Step into a world where creativity meets cutting-edge technology. In the new media and digital art program, you’ll explore how digital tools and emerging technologies can be used to create powerful, boundary-pushing art.
You’ll gain hands-on experience in video art, digital cinematography, 3D modeling, sound design, and multimedia installation—while learning from the work of digital art pioneers and today’s most innovative creators. Our curriculum empowers you to experiment freely, think critically, and develop your own artistic voice across multiple media.
Whether you're interested in immersive installations, animated worlds, or socially engaged digital storytelling, this program gives you the skills, mentorship, and forward-thinking mindset to thrive in the ever-evolving world of digital art.
High-Profile Graduate Opportunities
Graduates from our new media and digital art concentration have gone on to careers as media artists, academics, independent film makers, post-production artists, and entrepreneurs. Graduates have presented their work at the Cannes Film Festival, and have worked on such films as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One and Part Two, Looper, Men in Black, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part One, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader among other numerous projects.
Curriculum Snapshot
| Year | Focus Areas |
|---|---|
| 1 | Design I-II, Drawing I-II, Survey of the Visual Arts I |
| 2 | Survey of the Arts II, Intro to Digital Art, Intro to Modern Art, New Media and Digital Art, Intro to Computer Animation |
| 3 | Art History, New Media and Digital Art, Advanced New Media and Digital Art, Sound Design |
| 4 | Studies in Art History, Senior Capstone Art Project I-II, Advanced New Media and Digital Art |
Visual Arts students are also required to complete the Foundation Courses as well as a Sophomore Review course. Plus general education credits in English, math, science, history, social sciences, and electives.
View the New Media and Digital Art curriculum guide in the academic catalog »