New Media + Sound Art

The New Media + Sound Art Major explores the intersections of technology and storytelling. You'll gain both conceptual and practical skills for producing creative, innovative, and experimental research and projects. This may include working with electronic wearables, sonic objects and environments, creative computing, and performing with media.You'll also be encouraged to take electives in other programs, combining interests in media with ceramics, textiles, animation, and sculpture. Throughout your studies, your courses will be taught by award-winning, established artists who are experts in their fields.Later in your studies, you'll participate in self-directed projects and research themes including audiovisual experiences, sound ecologies, and making data. In the final year of your studies, you'll work on a larger self-directed piece, research project, or experimental processes.You'll have the freedom to create albums, installations, interactive artwork, textiles, performance pieces, or other products based on your specific interests and talents. Most importantly, you'll graduate with an impressive portfolio of work that will help launch your career or future studies.New Media + Sound Art encourages open-ended inquiry. Throughout your studies, you'll examine how art and technology can contribute toward positive social change, enhance our perceptions, and offer new ways of relating to and protecting the world around us.