Digital Arts

Jesse Colin Jackson, Director

The minor in Digital Arts provides opportunities to explore creativity through digital media arts. This program is open to students from all areas of UCI who want to acquire a working knowledge of how digital media content is conceived, constructed, and performed.

In the studio, students receive hands-on experience with current software tools, creating and sharing digital media art projects, developing an appreciation of digital media aesthetics and conceptual design, and learning the fundamentals of desktop video, audio, and Web authoring software applications. Lectures and discussions examine how today’s pervasive digital culture evolves through interdisciplinary collaborations among artists, engineers, scientists, and scholars. Course work considers relationships between digital media practices, touching on such areas as social networking, video/audio podcasting, interface design, digital music, telematic performance, intelligent agents, virtual realities, artificial life, and ubiquitous computing. The program investigates critical issues related to emerging technologies and the arts, and surveys recent works by leading digital media artists.

Prospective students should have basic proficiency with Web, email, word processing, and presentation software. It is highly recommended that students have their own computer. Further information is available at the Digital Arts Minor website.

Requirements

Each of these courses may be taken one time only for credit toward the minor (with the exception of topics vary courses, e.g., ART 100 ). ART 95 and ART 100 topics require approval from the Director of the Digital Arts minor to count towards the minor. Two courses in the minor may be taken Pass/Not Pass.