COM (0108) 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.

Repeatable: No Grade Type: Regular
Free Note: This class is cross-listed with ART 259 Interactive Art & Digital Media

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.