The curriculum consists of courses covering the technology, theory, creation, and production of performance artworks. Exploration of the collaborative process within a community context, focusing on the intersection of the creative process and contemporary community and cultural issues, constitutes an important feature of the program.
The Interactive Arts program takes a collective approach to teaching and student production. Not only are all Interactive Arts required courses team-taught, all significant student projects are collaboratively conceived and produced.
The Interactive Arts course offerings build on the existing undergraduate and graduate curricula of the five sponsoring departments.
The Interactive Arts program curriculum consists of 18 credits (six courses) completed over three semesters (Fall-Spring-Fall).
1) Three required three-credit Interactive Arts courses:
PIMA 701G - Sound, Image, Space, and Performance;
Interactive Media Programming I
30 hours lecture, 45 hours laboratory; 3 credits
(taken in the first semester)
PIMA 702G - Artistic Process and Contemporary Community;
Interactive Media Programming II
30 hours lecture, 45 hours laboratory; 3 credits
(taken in the second semester)
PIMA 703G - Collaborative Interactive Media Performance
45 hours lecture; 3 credits
(taken in the third semester)
2) Three three-credit electives (one per semester) chosen from selected graduate courses. See courses.
To receive the Advanced Certificate in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, students will be required to complete the program with a grade point average of 3.0 or better and have completed no more than three credits (one course) with a grade less than B.
First (Fall) semester:
Required: PIMA 701G - Sound, Image, Space, and Performance; Interactive Media Programming I
Elective: Music U737.1G - Computer Music I
Second (Spring) semester:
Required: PIMA 702G - Artistic Process and Contemporary Community; Interactive Media Programming II
Elective: Music U737.2G - Computer Music II
Third (Fall) semester:
Required: PIMA 703G - Collaborative Interactive Media Performance
Elective: Art 777G - The Aesthetics of Information
The Interactive Arts curriculum is designed based on the professional artistic experience of the faculty developing the program. It emphasizes conditions which exist in the professional arts and new media world, such as:
The curriculum design reflects these conditions in all of its fundamental structural elements:
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