The Interactive Arts program is a project of six well-equipped departments at Brooklyn College. One of the goals of the program is to give a small group of advanced students "unprecedented access" to the technological and production resources on campus.
Students in the program have access to the Center for Computer Music and recording studio, the Television Center (including a broadcast-quality television studio and television post-production lab), the radio station and the academic radio lab, the G5 digital arts labs, the digital arts graduate editing room, a blackbox theater, and 24/7 access to the "configurable workshop space" used for work in multimedia performance, robotics, and computer interface design.
For equipment signout, students have complete access to a broad array of equipment belonging to the program, as well as most equipment distributed by the Television Center, Center for Computer Music, and Digital Arts area.
Some technological highlights: An 8.2 channel performance sound system - two 8-channel computer music studios - a 24-channel "soundwall" studio - 8x16 audio and 16x16 a/v matrixing switchers - three portable a/v effects switchers for performance use - four synchronizable professional DVD players - a portable performance lighting system with a LanBox interface - a Kyma system - 9'x12' video projection screens - a large assortment of video monitors and projectors - 1gHz Macintosh G4 performance laptops - iCube and Basic Stamp sensor interfaces - a wide variety of multi-parametric performance controllers such as the Doepfer Drehbank and PC1600x - Pixera miniature video cameras - Polhemus 6dof motion capture system.
The Digital Arts classroom/laboratories on the fifth floor of Boylan Hall, containing 40 Macintosh Digital Arts workstations, are available to Interactive Arts students, and are used as a classroom space for selected Interactive Arts courses. Some workstations are equipped with specialized software used within the Interactive Arts curriculum. Additional specialized imaging and video software are available on all workstations. The workstations are maintained by the Art Department.
The Center for Computer Music (Rooms 250-251 Gershwin Hall and the Gershwin Recording Studio) is available to Interactive Arts students. The center contains digital music composition workstations, recording equipment, and digital audio editing equipment. 251 Gershwin is used as a classroom space for selected Interactive Arts classes. The Center is maintained by the Conservatory of Music.
The Television and Radio video post-production studio and classroom, located in the Television Center in Whitehead Hall, is available to Interactive Arts students and is used as a classroom space for selected Interactive Arts classes.
Television Studio B, a broadcast-quality television production facility also located in the Television Center, allows access to Interactive Arts students for specialized projects and class demonstrations and exercises. These facilities are maintained by staff in the Television Center.
The Radio Station and Radio Lab on the third floor of Whitehead Hall are accessible to Interactive Arts students taking the Academic Radio classes.
In the first semester of the program, students present their work on campus in the New Workshop Theater, a blackbox theater which is part of the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College.
Levenson recital hall, in the basement of Gershwin Hall, serves as a venue for Interactive Arts on-campus public performances.
A Configurable Workshop Space is provided for use by Interactive Arts students and faculty. The Workshop Space is equipped with specialized technologies used within the Interactive Arts curriculum and Computer and Information Science department. The space is shared by students in the Interactive Arts program, and Computer and Information Science students doing research in the areas of robotics, computer-human interfaces, and artificial intelligence.
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