Digital Media Art

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The Digital Media Fine art (DMA) programme at San Jose State Academy is a multidisciplinary degree offer a digital art and design curriculum in the areas of reckoner graphics, web development, programming, concrete computing, fabrication, prototyping, interactivity and estimator games. Located in the centre of Silicon Valley, the DMA plan is dedicated to the advocacy of gimmicky technologies through enquiry and experimentation at the intersection of art and scientific discipline.

Program Website: DMA CADRE

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Undergraduate Program – BFA

Degrees: BFA Art Concentration in Digital Media Art | Pocket-size Digital Media Art

The BFA Concentration in Digital Media Art teaches technical, creative, and critical thinking skills to empower our students every bit problem solvers and innovators in the field of digital technology. Students graduating from the program develop existent-world skills in graphics, programming, digital video, interaction blueprint, and calculator game design using a broad range of tools, technologies, and techniques. Our curriculum is hands-on, providing project-oriented learning in collaborative workshop environments.

DMA operates several labs including the CADRE Physical Computing Lab and the DMA Game Blueprint Lab providing research based pedagogy in microcircuits, fabrication and prototyping, figurer games and interactive programming. We offer fabrication facilities through our comprehensive woods and metal shops including light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation cutters, CNC routers, and vacuform, in improver to metal and large-scale sculpture fabrication through the Spatial Art Program.

DMA BFA Programme Strengths

  • Multidisciplinary digital media art curriculum at a world form public university located in the middle of Silicon Valley
  • Expert kinesthesia committed to educatee date and academic excellence
  • Collaborative art and technology projects supported by kinesthesia mentors and industry partners
  • 21st century digital media lab facilities featuring industry-standard hardware and software with access exclusively for DMA students
  • Active pupil clubs including the SJSU Game Development Guild and the CADRE Student Organization

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  • Undergraduate Major and Minor Forms
  • Degree Requirements: BFA Digital Media Art

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Graduate Plan – MFA

MFA Art Concentration in Digital Media Art

The Digital Media Art MFA concentration provides an unparalleled surroundings for technical and conceptual research driven by project-oriented digital media practices in a fine art context. Our customs of kinesthesia and graduate students work expansively across media and processes including; 2D/3D imaging, code, video, audio, AR/VR/XR, multimedia, electronic sculpture, physical computing, and computer games.

Reflecting the atmosphere of the Bay Area, our MFA degree emphasizes creative experimentation within a context of historical, cultural, technical, and theoretical written report. Students in the programme are encouraged to exist agile members of our research community by participating in exhibitions, conferences, and funded research projects.


Our innovative approach to art and engineering science has led to world-grade academic and career opportunities for graduating students. Recent DMA enquiry partners include Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Autodesk, Philips LumiLED, VentureWell, and The John S. and James 50. Knight Foundation. Faculty have received competitive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.s. Land Section, among others. MFA Digital Media Fine art alum are employed in wide variety of Silicon Valley technology companies including Adobe, Autodesk, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Electronic Arts and accept been appointed in teaching positions in higher education at universities including UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, University of Nevada, Reno, Claremont University, and the National Academy of Singapore.

Quick Links

  • Application Instructions and Procedures [pdf]
  • Degree Requirements: MFA Digital Media Fine art
  • Academic Summary Course [pdf]
  • MFA Summary

Facilities


Digital Media Art and CADRE Labs

Contact: james.morgan@sjsu.edu

DMA operates two labs providing enquiry based instruction in spider web development and coding, computer games and interactive design, fabrication and prototyping. Our labs are equipped with Mac and PC computers supporting a broad range of software and hardware in addition to high-definition digital video, digital photography, sound and projection equipment available for student checkout. DMA labs feature 3D printers, CNC machines, laser cutters, electronics, and game development workstations open exclusively to DMA BFA and MFA students.

Programme Coordinator:

Prof. Craig Chiliad. Hobbs – gcraig.hobbs@sjsu.edu

Graduate Coordinator:

Prof. Rhonda Holberton – rhonda.holberton@sjsu.edu

DMA Faculty & Lecturers

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G. Craig Hobbs

Acquaintance Professor
Expanse Coordinator - DMA

Art 319 | gcraig.hobbs@sjsu.edu

Grand. Craig Hobbs' video project mapping workshops involve collaboration with artists, students and communities working across cultures and borders. His recent collaborations with Yannick Jacquet of AntiVJ, VPM3D, Robin Lasser, Migratory Cultures, 2014-2019 and third Space Labs, Social Weavers, 2016-18, Hidden Lily, 2018-19 combine workshop and peer-to-peer learning to develop customs-based public artworks addressing bug of globalization and applied science through video projection mapping and cultural exchange.

Hobbs produces large-scale public art, installations, and films. His past collaborations include: Natalie Jeremijenko, Usman Haque, Blast Theory, Andrea Polli, Yung-Ta Chang, AntiVJ, Robin Lasser, Thomas Dolby and cloth | ch, among others. Hobbs received his BFA from California Institute of the Arts and his MFA from the Digital Arts and New Media program at University of California, Santa Cruz. He has served as a visiting professor at Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, France and as researcher and lecturer at the Academy of California, Santa Cruz and California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Hobbs is currently Associate Professor of Digital Media Art (DMA) and Managing director of the Paseo Prototyping Challenge and Festival at San José State Academy in San José, California.

https://core.sjsu.edu/

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David Bayus

Lecturer

david.bayus@sjsu.edu

David Bayus (b. 1982, Johnson City, TN) lives and works in San Francisco, CA. His work is a cross-disciplinary practice centered effectually experimental film-making with a focus on the dualistic relationship between science and spirituality. He is a co-founder of BASEMENT art collective located in San Francisco's Mission District. He received his MFA from The San Francisco Art Found in 2010.

He has exhibited work in the Bay Area at Et Al, Urban center Limits, Ever Golden, Change Infinite, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Southern Exposure, and more. Further afield, his work has been exhibited at Vacancy, Los Angeles; Field Contemporary, Vancouver; and at Fabric Art Off-white, Mexico City. Editions of his work can be found in the collections of the Los Angeles Canton Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Fine art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modernistic Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

https://davidbayus.zone/

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Andrew Blanton

Associate Professor

Art 311 | andrew.blanton@sjsu.edu

Andrew Blanton is Associate Professor in Digital Media Art – Cadre Media Labs at San Jose Country Academy and PhD educatee in music composition working at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the Academy of California Berkeley.

His work has been performed and presented around the globe in venues such as Google Cultural Lab in Paris, The University of Brasilia, The City Academy of Hong Kong, and STEIM Amsterdam among many others. His current work focuses on the emergent potential between cross-disciplinary arts and technology in the context of Composition, New Media Art, and building sound + visual environments through software development. Andrew has avant-garde expertise in percussion, 3D environments/graphics programming, creative software development, and developing projects in the confluence of art and science.

https://www.andrewblanton.com/

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Steve Durie

Lecturer

Art 325 | steve.durie@sjsu.edu

Steve Durie is an artist, lecturer, digital media producer and designer. He has worked on numerous private and collaborative projects involving digital media, installation, spider web art, music and performance, which has been practical to traditional art and academic environments also as business concern and commercial venues.

Mr. Durie is one of the founding members of C5 Corporation, an fine art/business organization hybrid cartel focused on theoretical models of it and information visualization. C5 projects, performances and publications have shown internationally in numerous exhibitions including: Siggraph, the Walker Fine art Center, San José Museum of Art, Ars Electronica, Stanford University Museum and Museo Nationale de Bella Arte. Steve has work in collaboration with public artists including Mel Chin, Ann Chamberlin and Buster Simpson.

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Rajorshi Ghosh

Acquaintance Professor

Section Chair

ART 116 | rajorshi.ghosh@sjsu.edu

Ghosh is a US based artist, researcher and educator interested in novel intersections of visual language and critical making. His work is primarily research driven that has sought to expand the vocabulary of human experience and perception with striking aesthetic outcomes.

Ghosh'due south site-specific video installations, films and photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world. His work is part of many private and public collections, both, inside the US and abroad, and has been reviewed in major international publications including the Artforum International, Los Angeles Times, Blouin Artinfo New York, Architectural Digest and The Indian Express among others. Ghosh received his master's degree in Design and Media Arts from the University of California Los Angeles for which he was awarded the Inlaks Scholarship. He has previously taught at UCLA and Ohio University before moving dorsum to California as Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at San Jose State University.

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Yolande Harris

Lecturer

yolande.harris@sjsu.edu

Yolande Harris is an creative person and researcher exploring ideas of sonic consciousness. Her projects consider techniques of navigation, expanding perception across the range of homo senses, the technological mediation of underwater environments and our relationship to other species. Her projects on underwater sound aim to bring us closer to this inaccessible environment, encouraging connexion, understanding and empathy with the ocean.

She has presented her work internationally over the last twenty years, including the ICA London, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, the House of World Cultures Berlin and the Exploratorium in San Francisco and holds a PhD from Leiden University in 'Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness' and an MPhil from from Cambridge University in Architecture and Moving Prototype. Yolande was Assistant Professor in Video and Open Media at Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently Research Associate at the University of California Santa Cruz, working on underwater sound in the Monterey Bay. Cook Me Into The Ocean (2018) is an ongoing investigation exploring our relationship to the earth oceans through underwater sound. From a Whale'due south Back (2020) uses video, sound and data from tags used by scientists to monitor whales.

https://world wide web.yolandeharris.net

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Rhonda Holberton

Assistant Professor
Graduate (MFA) Plan Coordinator

Fine art 319 | rhonda.holberton@sjsu.edu

Rhonda Holberton holds a MFA from Stanford University and a BFA from California College of the Arts. Her multimedia installations make use of digital and interactive technologies integrated into traditional methods of fine art product. In 2014 Holberton was a CAMAC Artist in Residence at Marnay-sur-Seine, France, and she was awarded a Fondation Ténot Fellowship, Paris.

Her work is included in the collection of SFMoMA and the McEvoy Foundation and has been exhibited at CULT | Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, FIFI Projects United mexican states Metropolis; Yerba Buena Eye for the Arts; The Gimmicky Jewish Museum, SF; Berkeley Art Heart; San Jose Constitute of Contemporary Art; and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Holberton taught experimental media at Stanford University from 2015-2017 and is is currently Banana Professor of Digital Media at San Jose State Academy. She lives and works in Oakland.

https://www.rhondaholberton.com/

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James Morgan

Lecturer

ART 325 | james.morgan@sjsu.edu

James Morgan is and artist, educator and researcher.

He has an MFA in Digital Media Fine art from the CADRE Laboratory for New Media.

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Joel Slayton

Professor Emeritus

Joel Slayton is a pioneering artist and researcher. He is the Founding Manager of the Core Laboratory for New Media at San Jose State University.

Between 2018-2019 he was a Stanford University Sterling Visiting Scholar in Department of Chemical Systems and Biological science in the Schoolhouse of Medicine.From 2008-2916 he served as the Executive Managing director of ZERO1, a Silicon Valley based arts organization, and between 1997-206, Joel was the Founder and President of C5corp. Joel serves on the Lath of Directors of LEONARDO/ISAST (International Society for Arts, Science, and Technology) and is a Senior Fellow of the Silicon Valley American Leadership Forum.

http://joelslayton.com

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Chelsea Thompto

Assistant Professor

ART 311 | chelsea.thompto@sjsu.edu

Chelsea Thompto is a transdisciplinary artist working at the intersections of art, trans studies, and engineering science. Her piece of work explores technologies of visualization with a particular focus on their relationship to trans bodies. She is an Banana Professor of Digital Media Art in the Section of Art and Art History at San José State Academy. She also serves on the Lath of Directors of the New Media Conclave and the Editorial Board of the Media-N: Periodical of the New Media Caucus.

Her piece of work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn NY, Spektrum in Berlin, Deutschland, Adult female Fabricated Gallery, Chicago, IL, and more. In 2019 she was a Toolmaker In Residence at Indicate Civilization in Owego, New York. She received an MFA and MA in 4D Art and an MA in Gender and Women's Studies from the Academy of Wisconsin Madison.

https://www.chelseathompto.com/