Media Arts
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Concentration
Media Arts
Media Arts explores expression through devices and technologies such as sensors, circuits, mechanical devices, video, film, sound, performance art and multimedia.
As you learn to use these technologies to serve your developing artistic vision, you can choose to focus on time-based art or interactivity.
Careers include:
- Performance installation artist
- Video producer
- Experience designer
- Multimedia artist
- Product designer
- Industrial designer
- Arts administrator
- Educator
- Entrepreneur
- Curator
Popular courses
- MADT 202 Practices in Video and Audio
- MADT 301 Personal Practice in Media Arts
- MADT 401 Advanced Practice in Media Arts
- MADT 411 Theoretical Discourses in Practice
- OBDF 310 Algorithmic and Parametric Object Design
Studio facilities
The Media Arts studio facilities are set up as a research and creative production environment, promoting vibrancy and variety in critical thinking and making.
- Studios include installation and projection spaces, gallery and screening rooms, and multi-purpose spaces
- Media production studios including one large studio with green screen, tracking dolly, jib, lighting kits, 5.1 audio, projection screen, and one smaller studio with edit suites and 5.1 audio recording studio
- Electronics lab with soldering stations, lathe, sensor and circuit production materials, and dedicated computers for Arduino programming
- Two computer labs with fully equipped Mac and PC production computers
- Production workshop space
- Individual studio spaces for third- and fourth-year students
- Object Design spaces feature a laser cutter, 3D printers, CNC machine
Alumni
AUArts Media Arts and Digital Technologies alumni have gone on to successful careers as independent artists, curators, graduate students, video producers, new media designers, visualization artists, interactive artists, senior app designers, production artists, IT/audio-visual specialists, multimedia artists, senior photographers, UX designers and more.
