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• Degrees Offered:
  • Undergraduate Programs
    • Bachelors of Fine Arts: Concentration in Digital Media Art (BFA)
    • Minor in Digital Media Art
  • Graduate  Programs
    • Masters of Fine Arts: Concentration in Digital Media Art (MFA)
• Facilities
• Faculty

The Digital Media Art (DMA) program at San Jose State University is a multidisciplinary degree offering a digital art and design curriculum in the areas of computer graphics, web development, programming, physical computing, fabrication, prototyping, interactivity and computer 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.

Undergraduate Program 鈥� BFA

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

The BFA Concentration in Digital Media Art teaches technical, creative, and critical thinking skills to empower our students as problem 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 Computing Lab and the DMA Game Design Lab providing research 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 Program Strengths

• Multidisciplinary digital media art curriculum at a world class public university located in the heart of Silicon Valley
• Expert faculty committed to student engagement and academic excellence
• Collaborative art and technology projects supported by faculty mentors and industry partners
• 21st century digital media lab facilities featuring industry-standard hardware and software with access exclusively for DMA students
• Active student clubs including the 91果冻制片厂 Game Development Club and the CADRE Student Organization

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• Undergraduate Major and Minor Forms

Program Learning Outcomes (PLO)

• PLO 1

  • Analyze and research visual and conceptual problems and both apply and explain their use of basic design principles, concepts, tools, techniques, media, materials, formats, and visual languages to solve those problems. We expect our students to bring their expertise in finding visual-verbal solutions to problems as they embark on a lifetime of self- and professional employment in a variety of careers. As students they will demonstrate their development and application of art knowledge in a wide range of studio courses, culminating in a capstone course.

• PLO 2

  • Demonstrate increasing skills in the use of diverse materials, tools, and media, and be able to explain and evaluate success/failure in individual and group critiques. We expect our graduates to be lifelong problem-identifiers and problem solvers, always on the lookout for new and better skills. Prior to graduation, they will demonstrate their making/evaluating skills in studio courses and their skills of self-assessment and explanation in a sequence of interdisciplinary professional courses and in a capstone course.

• PLO 3

  • Demonstrate their commitment to valuing art鈥檚 role in offering cultural critique and addressing issues of social responsibility in a global society. As creative professionals, our graduates will, we hope, assume leadership roles in engaging with social and cultural change-as teachers, as critics, as spokespersons for important issues that cannot yet be imagined. As undergraduates, our students will demonstrate their understanding of the values of contemporary art in their visual and written responses to class assignments in studio courses and in the interdisciplinary core and capstone courses (where these qualities will be assessed), in their work on collaborative group projects, in the successful articulation of their ideas in exhibitions and artist statements.

• PLO 4

  • Apply their knowledge of visual history and theory to their creative endeavors and to their professional practice. They will be able to speak and write clearly about art and global culture, using appropriate terminology and demonstrating their understanding of the contemporary art world. They will demonstrate their ability to place their own work within the broader context of historical and contemporary art and ideas. Our graduates will commit to continued personal engagement with intellectual issues in contemporary art and culture. As students, they will demonstrate their understanding of visual history and theory in assignments completed for their art history courses and their understanding of the intellectual context and historical precedents of their own work in assignments completed for their professional core and capstone courses.

• PLO 5

  • Demonstrate their readiness for careers as creative professionals by completing a more sequenced and specialized course of study in sculpture, installation and other three-dimensional art forms. Admission to the BFA requires students to demonstrate their ability to work independently as artists. Students will have successfully developed and presented for review by the Department鈥檚 faculty (a) a unified body of work (10 images), (b) n artist statement (of purpose) and then secured (c) support and commitment of two area faculty members willing to serve on that student鈥檚 BFA committee. Each BFA candidate then (d) successfully completes the professional BFA seminar and (e) schedules and mounts in one of the Department鈥檚 student exhibition galleries a solo exhibition (as the work for ART 199) that meets the approval of the student鈥檚 BFA committee. Our BFA graduates will embark on professional careers as practicing artists and creative professionals and/or apply to MFA programs for further instruction and certification for college/university teaching.

Graduate Program 鈥� MFA

MFA Art Concentration in Digital Media Art

The Digital Media Art MFA concentration provides an unparalleled environment for technical and conceptual research driven by project-oriented digital media practices in a fine art context. Our community of faculty and graduate students work expansively across media and processes including; 2D/3D imaging, code, video, sound, 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 study. Students in the program are encouraged to be active members of our research community by participating in exhibitions, conferences, and funded research projects.

Our innovative approach to art and technology has led to world-class academic and career opportunities for graduating students. Recent DMA research partners include Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Autodesk, Philips LumiLED, VentureWell, and The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Faculty have received competitive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the US State Department, among 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 have 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 University of Singapore.

Quick Links

• Academic Summary Form [pdf]
• MFA Summary

Program Learning Outcomes (PLO)

• PLO1

  • (Art Knowledge) Graduates will be able to analyze and research visual and conceptual problems and both apply and explain their use of basic design principles, concepts, tools, techniques, media, materials, formats, and visual languages to solve those problems. We expect our students to bring their expertise in finding visual鈥恦erbal solutions to problems as they embark on a lifetime of self鈥� and professional employment in a variety of careers. As students they will demonstrate their development and application of art knowledge in a wide range of studio courses, culminating in a capstone course.

• PLO2

  • (Art Skills) Graduates will be able to demonstrate increasing skills in the use of diverse materials, tools, and media, and be able to explain and evaluate success/failure in individual and group critiques. We expect our graduates to be lifelong problem鈥恑dentifiers and problem solvers, always on the lookout for new and better skills. Prior to graduation, they will demonstrate their making/evaluating skills in studio courses and their skills of self鈥恆ssessment and explanation in a sequence of interdisciplinary professional courses and in a capstone course.

• PLO3

  • (Art Values) Graduates will demonstrate their commitment to valuing art鈥檚 role in offering cultural critique and addressing issues of social responsibility in a global society. As creative professionals, our graduates will, we hope, assume leadership roles in engaging with social and cultural change鈥攁s teachers, as critics, as spokespersons for important issues that cannot yet be imagined. As undergraduates, our students will demonstrate their understanding of the values of contemporary art in their visual and written responses to class assignments in studio courses and in the interdisciplinary core and capstone courses (where these qualities will be assessed), in their work on collaborative group projects, in the successful articulation of their ideas in exhibitions and artist statements.

• PLO4

  • (History/Theory) Graduates will apply their knowledge of visual history and theory to their creative endeavors and to their professional practice. They will be able to speak and write clearly about art and global culture, using appropriate terminology and demonstrating their understanding of the contemporary art world. They will demonstrate their ability to place their own work within the broader context of historical and contemporary art and ideas. Our graduates will commit to continued personal engagement with intellectual issues in contemporary art and culture. As students, they will demonstrate their understanding of visual history and theory in assignments completed for their art history courses and their understanding of the intellectual context and historical precedents of their own work in assignments completed for their professional core and capstone courses.

• PLO5

  • (Professional Preparation) Our BFA graduates will demonstrate their readiness for careers as creative professionals by completing a more sequenced and specialized course of study in Digital Media Art. Admission to the BFA requires students to demonstrate their ability to work independently as digital media artists. Students will have successfully developed and presented for review by the Department鈥檚 faculty (a) a unified body of work (10 images), (b) n artist statement (of purpose) and then secured (c) support and commitment of two area faculty members willing to serve on that student鈥檚 BFA committee. Each BFA candidate then (d) successfully completes the professional BFA seminar and (e) schedules and mounts in one of the Department鈥檚 student exhibition galleries a solo exhibition (as the work for ART 199) that meets the approval of the student鈥檚 BFA committee. Our BFA graduates will embark on professional careers as practicing artists and creative professionals and/or apply to MFA programs for further instruction and certification for college/university teaching.

Facilities

Digital Media Art and CADRE Labs

Contact: james.morgan@sjsu.edu

DMA operates two labs providing research based instruction in web development and coding, computer games and interactive design, fabrication and prototyping. Our labs are equipped with Mac and PC computers supporting a wide 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.

DMA Faculty & Lecturers 

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 around 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 Institute in 2010.

He has exhibited 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 work has been exhibited at Vacancy, Los Angeles; Field Contemporary, Vancouver; and at Material Art Fair, Mexico City. Editions of his work can be found in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Andrew Blanton

Associate Professor

Area Coordinator

Art 311 | andrew.blanton@sjsu.edu

Andrew Blanton is Associate Professor in Digital Media Art 鈥� CADRE Media Labs at San Jose State University and PhD student in music composition working at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California Berkeley.

His work has been performed and presented around the world in venues such as Google Cultural Lab in Paris, The University 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 technology in the context of Composition, New Media Art, and building sound + visual environments through software development. Andrew has advanced expertise in percussion, 3D environments/graphics programming, creative software development, and developing projects in the confluence of art and science.