New Media in the Creative Arts investigates and presents current digital technologies and explores a variety of venues through which ideas can be presented. Our aim is to understand how media and content can be employed from an artist’s perspective, and stress the role digital tools play in creating artwork. Emphasis is placed on employing computers and peripheral devices, as well as repurposing well understood objects for artistic creation and research.
We seek to provide students with the skills necessary to explore the creative process using digital tools, and to begin the understanding of what New Media means in relation to other plastic and evolving arts. Students are also encouraged to develop an awareness of issues involving art and artists, aesthetics, and past and evolving methodologies in using technology for ethical, communicative, and research purposes within the broad context of contemporary art, new media art, and mediated culture.
Anticipated Outcomes of the Program
1. Students will be able to use technology to locate, access, evaluate, and use information, and appropriately cite resources from digital/electronic media.
2. Students will understand the core IT concepts in a range of current and emerging technologies and learn to apply appropriate technologies to a range of tasks.
3. Students will understand many of the key ethical, legal and social issues related to information technology and how to interpret and comply with ethical principles, laws, regulations, and institutional policies.
4. Students will demonstrate the ability to communicate, create, and collaborate effectively using state-of-the-art information technologies in multiple modalities.
5. Students will understand the essential issues related to information security, how to take precautions and use techniques and tools to defend against computer crimes.
Links
Artstor
Readings
Found Magazine
Imaginary Museum
WordPress
Artomatic
Rhizome
Brian Eno
Edward Tufte
Edward Tufte Envisioning Information
conceptual metaphor
Estrangement
artists network
lines and colors
A Daily Dose of Architecture
Creative Cow
Lynda.com
Fudge Graphics
Web Design Library
Large Format Paintings