Brooklyn College has established an M.F.A. program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts; a two-year, 46-credit degree program created cooperatively by the Brooklyn College departments of Art, Computer and Information Science, 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. In the second year a major collaborative thesis production is created and presented in a professional venue.
The 22 faculty and staff involved in creating, teaching, and administering the program are drawn from the five 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 second of which is the M.F.A. in Performance and Interactive Media Arts.
The program is known as "Interactive Arts" and/or "PIMA."
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