New Media Art
New Media Art is an interdisciplinary and collaborative discipline that focuses on our relationship with technology, visual culture and performance in contemporary art. This practice is rooted in the traditions of avant-garde processes and experimental art making, and responds to the rapid pace of technological development.
Students in our program work closely with dedicated faculty and technicians to explore diverse methods of making in both the virtual and physical world. Projects challenge tradition and embrace new forms of aesthetic thinking, while all courses emphasize artistic excellence, active learning, and socially engaged practices. Students in this major enjoy adjacency to disciplines across the college and access to both digital and analog tools.
Whether it is installation, film and video, physical computing, net-art, performance, animation, immersive installations, sound, sensing devices, mapping, social practice, or participatory media, our students integrate the language of art and technology through an integrated and informed critical practice.
The New Media minor is designed to encourage students from all areas of the university to explore the possibilities of creating artwork using emerging technologies within the context of a hands-on studio art environment. Students pursuing the BFA complete a final portfolio and participate in one group exhibition and one solo exhibition. The MFA program integrates practice-based research, contemporary theory and performance studies, culminating in a master’s project or a thesis exhibition.
Faculty & Staff
- Martin Back, Lecturer
- Liss LaFleur, Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator
- Zak Loyd, Art Technician and Adjunct Faculty
Student accomplishments
Julie Libersat "CADD FUNd: Winner Takes All" award
Julie Libersat, winner of the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas 2014 “CADD FUNd: Winner Takes All” event. Julie presented ROAM, a proposal for a mobile phone interactive urban exploration game. Players use the mobile app to get lost in the city and then document their journey as a form of narrative mapping using photo, video, audio and written capture. The project will be a creative tool that uses disorientation as a part of the artistic process prompting aesthetic engagement and challenging ideas of spatial cognition and orientation. Libersat’s work depicts space as a way of knowing and embodying the city though pedagogical notions of play.
Alumni accomplishments
Jungeun Lee: Artspace's 2014 International Artist-In-Residence, San Antonio
Jungeun Lee (MFA Photography, 2010) received the prestigious award for the 2014 International Artist-In-Residence program at Artpace in San Antonio. [Photo credit information: Originally commissioned and produced by Artpace San Antonio, Photo by Mark Menjivar]
