Digital Media Art

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The Digital Media Art (DMA) program at San Jose State Academy is a multidisciplinary degree offer a digital art and design curriculum in the areas of calculator graphics, web evolution, programming, physical calculating, fabrication, prototyping, interactivity and estimator games. Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the DMA program is dedicated to the advancement of contemporary technologies through research and experimentation at the intersection of art and science.

Program Website: DMA Cadre

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Undergraduate Program – BFA

Degrees: BFA Art Concentration in Digital Media Art | Minor Digital Media Art

The BFA Concentration in Digital Media Art teaches technical, artistic, and disquisitional thinking skills to empower our students as trouble solvers and innovators in the field of digital technology. Students graduating from the program develop real-world skills in graphics, programming, digital video, interaction design, and computer game design using a wide 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 Calculating Lab and the DMA Game Design Lab providing inquiry based pedagogy in microcircuits, fabrication and prototyping, computer games and interactive programming. We offer fabrication facilities through our comprehensive wood and metal shops including laser cutters, CNC routers, and vacuform, in addition to metal and large-scale sculpture fabrication through the Spatial Art Program.

DMA BFA Plan Strengths

  • Multidisciplinary digital media art curriculum at a world class public university located in the eye of Silicon Valley
  • Skilful faculty committed to student engagement and academic excellence
  • Collaborative art and technology projects supported by kinesthesia mentors and industry partners
  • 21st century digital media lab facilities featuring manufacture-standard hardware and software with access exclusively for DMA students
  • Agile student clubs including the SJSU Game Evolution Club and the Core Student Organization

Quick Links

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

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Graduate Program – MFA

MFA Fine art Concentration in Digital Media Art

The Digital Media Fine art MFA concentration provides an unparalleled environs for technical and conceptual research driven by project-oriented digital media practices in a fine fine art context. Our community of faculty and graduate students piece of work expansively across media and processes including; 2D/3D imaging, code, video, sound, AR/VR/XR, multimedia, electronic sculpture, physical calculating, and figurer games.

Reflecting the atmosphere of the Bay Expanse, our MFA degree emphasizes artistic experimentation within a context of historical, cultural, technical, and theoretical study. Students in the programme are encouraged to be active members of our enquiry customs by participating in exhibitions, conferences, and funded research projects.


Our innovative approach to art and technology has led to world-form bookish and career opportunities for graduating students. Contempo DMA research partners include Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Autodesk, Philips LumiLED, VentureWell, and The John Due south. and James Fifty. Knight Foundation. Kinesthesia accept received competitive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.s. Country Department, amid others. MFA Digital Media Art alum are employed in wide variety of Silicon Valley technology companies including Adobe, Autodesk, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Electronic Arts and take been appointed in teaching positions in college teaching at universities including UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, University of Nevada, Reno, Claremont University, and the National University of Singapore.

Quick Links

  • Application Instructions and Procedures [pdf]
  • Degree Requirements: MFA Digital Media Art
  • Academic Summary Grade [pdf]
  • MFA Summary

Facilities


Digital Media Art and CADRE Labs

Contact: james.morgan@sjsu.edu

DMA operates two labs providing research based education in web evolution and coding, reckoner games and interactive pattern, fabrication and prototyping. Our labs are equipped with Mac and PC computers supporting a wide range of software and hardware in improver to high-definition digital video, digital photography, sound and projection equipment bachelor for pupil checkout. DMA labs feature 3D printers, CNC machines, laser cutters, electronics, and game evolution workstations open up exclusively to DMA BFA and MFA students.

Program Coordinator:

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

Graduate Coordinator:

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

DMA Faculty & Lecturers

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G. Craig Hobbs

Associate Professor
Area Coordinator - DMA

Art 319 | gcraig.hobbs@sjsu.edu

G. Craig Hobbs' video project mapping workshops involve collaboration with artists, students and communities working beyond cultures and borders. His recent collaborations with Yannick Jacquet of AntiVJ, VPM3D, Robin Lasser, Migratory Cultures, 2014-2019 and 3rd Space Labs, Social Weavers, 2016-xviii, Hidden Lily, 2018-xix combine workshop and peer-to-peer learning to develop community-based public artworks addressing issues of globalization and engineering science through video project mapping and cultural exchange.

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

https://cadre.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 Plant in 2010.

He has exhibited piece of work in the Bay Area at Et Al, City Limits, Ever Gold, Alter Space, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Southern Exposure, and more. Further afield, his piece of work has been exhibited at Vacancy, Los Angeles; Field Contemporary, Vancouver; and at Material Art Fair, Mexico Urban center. Editions of his work tin can be found in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Fine art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern 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 Acquaintance Professor in Digital Media Art – CADRE Media Labs at San Jose State Academy and PhD educatee in music composition working at the Eye for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California Berkeley.

His work has been performed and presented effectually the world in venues such as Google Cultural Lab in Paris, The Academy of Brasilia, The City University of Hong Kong, and STEIM Amsterdam among many others. His current work focuses on the emergent potential between cross-disciplinary arts and applied science in the context of Composition, New Media Art, and building audio + visual environments through software evolution. 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://world wide web.andrewblanton.com/

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Steve Durie

Lecturer

Fine 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, web art, music and performance, which has been applied to traditional fine art and academic environments too every bit business and commercial venues.

Mr. Durie is one of the founding members of C5 Corporation, an art/business hybrid cartel focused on theoretical models of information technology and data visualization. C5 projects, performances and publications take shown internationally in numerous exhibitions including: Siggraph, the Walker 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

Department 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 homo experience and perception with striking artful outcomes.

Ghosh's site-specific video installations, films and photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries around the earth. His work is part of many private and public collections, both, inside the United states and away, and has been reviewed in major international publications including the Artforum International, Los Angeles Times, Blouin Artinfo New York, Architectural Digest and The Indian Limited amidst others. Ghosh received his master's degree in Design and Media Arts from the Academy of California Los Angeles for which he was awarded the Inlaks Scholarship. He has previously taught at UCLA and Ohio University earlier moving back 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 artist and researcher exploring ideas of sonic consciousness. Her projects consider techniques of navigation, expanding perception beyond the range of human senses, the technological arbitration of underwater environments and our relationship to other species. Her projects on underwater sound aim to bring us closer to this inaccessible environs, encouraging connection, understanding and empathy with the ocean.

She has presented her work internationally over the terminal 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 Paradigm. Yolande was Assistant Professor in Video and Open Media at Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently Research Associate at the Academy of California Santa Cruz, working on underwater sound in the Monterey Bay. Melt Me Into The Ocean (2018) is an ongoing investigation exploring our relationship to the world oceans through underwater sound. From a Whale'southward Back (2020) uses video, sound and information from tags used by scientists to monitor whales.

https://world wide web.yolandeharris.net

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Rhonda Holberton

Assistant Professor
Graduate (MFA) Program Coordinator

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 utilize of digital and interactive technologies integrated into traditional methods of art production. 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 Mexico City; Yerba Buena Heart for the Arts; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, SF; Berkeley Art Center; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Fine art; and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Holberton taught experimental media at Stanford Academy from 2015-2017 and is is currently Assistant Professor of Digital Media at San Jose Country University. 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 creative person, educator and researcher.

He has an MFA in Digital Media 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 Director of the CADRE 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 Biology in the Schoolhouse of Medicine.From 2008-2916 he served as the Executive Director of ZERO1, a Silicon Valley based arts organization, and betwixt 1997-206, Joel was the Founder and President of C5corp. Joel serves on the Board of Directors of LEONARDO/ISAST (International Guild for Arts, Science, and Technology) and is a Senior Young man 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 human relationship to trans bodies. She is an Banana Professor of Digital Media Fine art in the Department of Fine art and Art History at San José State Academy. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the New Media Caucus and the Editorial Board of the Media-N: Periodical of the New Media Conclave.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn NY, Spektrum in Berlin, Germany, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, and more than. In 2019 she was a Toolmaker In Residence at Point Culture in Owego, New York. She received an MFA and MA in 4D Fine art and an MA in Gender and Women'south Studies from the University of Wisconsin Madison.

https://world wide web.chelseathompto.com/