Media Arts (New Structure)

Immersive Experiences

Thomas Martinez | Syllabus | IMNY-UT 282 | Fri 12:20pm to 3:20pm in 370 Jay St, Room 409 Meetings:14
Prerequisites: Creative Computing or permission of the instructor | 4 Point, All, Elective, Fall 2025, Friday, Media and Entertainment (Old Structure), Media Arts (New Structure), Midday
Last updated: July 3, 2025
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This course is designed to provide students with hands-on experience creating immersive experiences, with a focus on designing artistic, meaningful worlds for virtual reality headsets. The class will also touch on related technologies, methods, and fields including experience design, virtual painting, augmented reality, interactive installation, and 360 video/audio. The course materials will also include readings and discussions on prior art/relevant critical texts. This class uses VR as a lens for understanding experience design in general. Some basic familiarity with programming, image-making, and time-based media is a plus, but not required.

Communications Lab: Hypercinema or equivalent experience.

Animation: Methods of Motion

Patrick Warren | Syllabus | IMNY-UT 288 | Tues 7:00pm to 8:30pm in 370 Jay St, Room 408> Thur 7:00pm to 8:30pm in 370 Jay St, Room 408 Meetings:14
4 Point, All, Elective, Evening, Fall 2025, Media and Entertainment (Old Structure), Media Arts (New Structure), Thursday, Tuesday
Last updated: July 3, 2025
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This course explores the fundamentals of storytelling through animation and takes students from traditional animation techniques to contemporary forms. In the first part of the course, students will focus on traditional animation, from script to storyboard through stop-motion and character-based animation. The course then examines effective communication and storytelling through various animation and motion design techniques. Drawing skills are not necessary for this course, however, students will keep a personal sketchbook.

Topics in Media Art: Alter Egos

Ali Santana | IMNY-UT.260 | Tues 09:00am to 12:00pm in 370 Jay St, Room 408 Meetings:14
4 Point, Elective, Fall 2024, In-Person, Media Arts (New Structure), Spring 2025
Last updated: October 11, 2024
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Alter Egos is a course that embraces abstract storytelling, improvisation, resourcefulness, ritual, performance and self-expression through art and technology. Students will develop original characters based on a series of stream of conscious exercises around identity. They will explore various creative techniques, including costuming, sound design, and multimedia collage while experimenting with unique methods of self expression via audio/visual performance. 

Students will assemble recycled materials, field recordings, emerging tech and textiles into costumes, props and digital worlds that embody their invented personas. This course will culminate as a live event showcasing audiovisual performances by participants in costume as their Alter Egos.

Class discussions will examine notions of identity, technology, community, health, privacy and encourage participants to venture outside of their comfort zone to radically imagine new approaches to creative expression.

Prerequisites: Communications Lab: Hypercinema
Instructor Website: http://www.alisantana.com