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Digital Arts

The introduction of digital media into creative fields has changed the very nature of their study and production. Musicians, scientists, creative writers, film makers and visual and performing artists have developed multiple fluencies with digital media. This, in turn, has challenged the long-standing tradition of individual genius specializing in individual media and has made collaborative and cross-disciplinary work practically inevitable. The program in digital arts provides a formal framework for the exploration of these creative possibilities.

The minor in digital arts consists of five courses; either Introduction to Video (Art 213) or Music for Contemporary Media (Music 277); the Electronic Arts Workshop (Art/Music 377); two other courses chosen from the digital arts course list; and a fifth course chosen from either the digital arts course list or the related course list. Courses counted toward this minor cannotcannot also be counted toward another concentration or minor.


Digital Arts courses:
Art
105 Design
115 Introduction to Digital Photography
213 Introduction to Video
313 Advanced Video

Computer Science
105 Explorations in Computer Science: Computations in Visual Arts

Dance
180 Sound, Performance and Creativity

Music
109 Theories of Music: Fundamentals
277 Music for Contemporary Media

Related courses:
Art History
120 Introduction to the History and Theory of Film
301 Critical Cinema: A History of Experimental and Avant-Garde Film
319 Text/Image in Cinema

College
210 The Physics of Musical Sound
224 Art and Physics of the Image
300 The Art of the Cinema

Communication
310 Media Form and Theory

Music
253 Music in Europe and America Since 1900

Theatre
213 Lighting Design
236 Outrageous Acts: Avant-Garde Theatre and Performance Art

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