Digital Arts, Minor
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.
| A. Select three of the following: | |
| ArtsCore | |
| Art in Context: History, Theory, and Practice | |
| Changing Creativity | |
| Art, Design, and Electronic Culture | |
| Cultural History of the Anthropocene | |
| Intelligences of Arts | |
| B. Select four of the following: | |
| Matter and Media | |
| Interaction and Experience | |
| Foundations in Media Design | |
| Foundations in Internet Art and Design | |
| Gizmology and Kinetics | |
| Introduction to Photography II | |
| Digital Filmmaking Production I | |
| Digital Filmmaking Production II | |
| Special Topics in Basic Media | |
| Special Topics in Art | |
| Programming for Artists | |
| Mechatronic Art I | |
| How to be Clever with Stuff | |
| Issues in Techno-Arts | |
| Projects in New Technologies | |
| Digital Media: Exhibition | |
| Dance and Video Technology | |
| Screendance | |
| Music Technology and Computers | |
| Studies in Music Technology | |
| Computer Music Composition | |
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.