Interactive Media Arts

MPI 501 - Production I
Course DescriptionThis upper year production course explores interactive media design. Students will utilize still and moving image material, multichannel media and internet platforms, new approaches to programming and the incorporation of sound to create interdisciplinary media design projects.
Weekly Contact:Lab 3 hrs.
GPA Weight:1.00
Billing Units:1
Count:1.00
Prerequisites:MPF 422 or MPS 408
MPI 601 - Production II
Course DescriptionThis upper year production course will continue, at an advanced level, the exploration of interactive media. The second term of the course involves completion and presentation of the final group project.
Weekly Contact:Lab 3 hrs.
GPA Weight:1.00
Billing Units:1
Count:1.00
MPI 602 - Media Languages: Old and New Vocabularies
Course DescriptionThis course explores the technical, symbolic and narrative codes and conventions that constitute the building blocks of analog and digital visual communication and contribute to recognizable media genres and styles. Key developments in media from the early nineteenth century to the present day are examined in order to understand critical and historical issues associated with them. Emphasis is placed on how visual, aural, verbal, and nonverbal forms govern the construction of media artifacts.
Weekly Contact:Lecture 3 hrs.
GPA Weight:1.00
Billing Units:1
Count:1.00
Prerequisites:MPC 210
MPI 71A/B - Senior Thesis
Course Description
This course will provide students with an opportunity to produce interactive media arts projects at an advanced level in a studio based environment. The projects will be either collaborative or individual in nature and draw on the theories and practices introduced in earlier years. Students can opt to integrate their project with other students in the IMA, Film or Photo option.
Weekly Contact:Lab 6 hrs.
GPA Weight:3.00
Billing Units:2/2
Count:2.00
Prerequisites:MPI 601