In 2003 Brooklyn College established the first graduate program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts: a three-semester, 18-credit advanced certificate curriculum created cooperatively by the Brooklyn College departments of Art, Computer and Information Science, Film, Television and Radio, Theater, and the Conservatory of Music.
The goal of the program is to provide students with training, theoretical and technical background, and practical experience in the conceptualization and production of collaborative, multi-disciplinary artworks presented in a performance setting. Specifically, students learn to use technology as a means of extending their personal artistic practice and facilitating cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations. Students with diverse academic, artistic, professional, and cultural backgrounds enter the program and work in collaborative groups throughout the course of study, with close mentoring by faculty members. One-half of the program’s credits are in required courses specifically designed for the program; the other half are in graduate electives offered by the cooperating departments.
The 22 faculty and staff involved in creating, teaching, and administering the program are drawn from the cooperating departments. Professor John J.A. Jannone (Department of Television and Radio) directs the program. Following a national search, Professor Jannone was hired under the University’s Cluster Hiring Initiative in the target area of New Media with the specific mandate of creating new programs in this field, the first of which is the Advanced Certificate in Performance and Interactive Media Arts, and the second of which is the Master of Fine Arts in the same field, established in 2006.
The program is known as "Interactive Arts" and/or "PIMA."
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