ART (0104) 259 - Interactive Art and Digital Media

Credits: 3.00

Students will experiment, tinker, and play with interactive art and design processes to develop the ability to creatively express ideas using various media including 3D printing, e-textiles, video mapping, microprocessors, and more. Individual and collaborative work will be informed by contemporary interactive art and design from around the world.

Course Learning Goals: Students will:

● compare, interpret, and analyze a range of interactive art and digital media concepts and practices by researching and reviewing interactive arts/artists/designers paying particular attention to socially engaged art/social practice;

● develop basic technical knowledge and applicable skills with a variety of interactive art and digital media tools;

● engage conceptual, aesthetic, utilitarian and social aspects of interactive art through the creative generation and production of hands on interactive projects;

● work collaboratively to explore, experiment, create and resolve interactive art processes and final projects;

● reflect and critique their own and their peers’ work in relation to conceptual, aesthetic, utilitarian, and social aspects of interactive art through ongoing reflection activities including construction of a Google Site.