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About the Minor

Digital Arts supports students in building a body of work spanning multi-media production, design, storytelling, sound, web and performance platforms, with access to new technology, equipment and facilities. The program also provides opportunities to connect with contemporary artists, designers, and professionals in relevant, emerging fields. Courses address issues of sustainability, accessibility, collaboration, embodiment, interactivity, identity and citizenship.

A Sampling of Courses

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Performance, Ritual and Technology

This class will cover performance strategies in relationship to digital technology, ritual and the social. We will create collaborative and hybrid work at the intersection of performance, digital media and social practice and map out modes of ritual engagement within these intersections. We will explore "liveness" as a digital and/or embodied presence and survey contemporary hybrid performance work.

Explore these select courses:

An introduction to the study of media with a focus on visual media and experience. Students will learn about key moments in media history, from the invention of print to the rise of broadcasting/mass media and the entrenchment of digital/social media. Students will engage with foundational concepts in media and visual studies, and develop tools to critically analyze, discuss, and write about the images that come to us through physical and virtual networks. Topics include: photojournalism, infographics, screen cultures, public relations and advertising, social media, AI, and the effects of digital media on the environment and mental health.

This course will serve as an introduction to digital technology in contemporary art making as it relates to interactivity, collaboration, and emerging practices. Emphasis will be placed on hands on experimentation and exploration across disciplines. We will cover installation art, web art, digital and time-based art, and immersive environments. Students will gain an overview of emerging digital practices, collaborative production strategies and correlations to social, aesthetic and theoretical issues. Other topics may include virtuality, performance, cyborgs, and network culture.

This class will survey and create emergent and non -linear forms of storytelling using digital and hybrid tools. We will examine notions of narrative authority and hybridity in a digital age and think through different ways we might use technology to distill, break apart or reify modes of communication and visual metaphor. Discussion will push boundaries of traditional storytelling and consider connectivity, liveness and embodied presence. This course will draw on multiple forms of expression including but not limited to digital media, performance, sound, XR, web and network environments.

Meet Our Faculty

Robert Knight

Chair, Professor of Art; Director of Digital Arts

rbknight@hamilton.edu

photography, history of photography, video capture and editing, Adobe premiere, art foundations curriculum, and 2D and 4D fundamentals

Nadya Bair

Assistant Professor of Art History

nbair@hamilton.edu

History of photography; photojournalism and news media; modern and contemporary visual culture; media studies; digital humanities; World War II and the Holocaust; Jewish Studies

Amy Brener

Assistant Professor of Art

abrener@hamilton.edu

sculpture, drawing, and digital media

Ryan Carter

Associate Chair, Associate Professor of Music

rccarter@hamilton.edu

acoustic and electro-acoustic composition; post-tonal analysis; audio programming; algorithmic composition; mobile platform development of audio applications

video, performance, installation, photography, electronic media, and history and contemporary practices in each of those areas

Nathan Goodale

Professor of Anthropology, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Co-Director of Geoarchaeology

ngoodale@hamilton.edu

complex hunter-gatherers in the interior Pacific Northwest; the forager/farmer transition in Southwest Asia; rural coastal adaptations in western Ireland

Anna Huff Mercovich

Assistant Professor of Digital Arts

ahuff@hamilton.edu

hybrid and multimedia performance; sound; technology and interactivity; collaborative media and performance strategies

Explore Hamilton Stories

Rogelio Ramirez Pacheco ’27

Ramirez Pacheco ’27 Scores With Nike Shoe Design

Bronx native Rogelio Ramirez Pacheco ’27 gives new meaning to “walking a mile in his shoes” with the release of the Air Jordan I Mid Subway — a special Nike shoe designed by the Hamilton College first-year and a fellow New York student.

AI theatre

AI as Storyteller

The existential themes of love, death, and time were explored in the AI-scripted and human-performed musical production Channelers, an interdisciplinary art project funded by the Dietrich Inchworm Grant and headed by Assistant Professor of Digital Arts Anna Huff.

Anna Huff Mercovich

Huff Presents Live Performance, Video Installation

Assistant Professor of Digital Arts Anna Huff will present a live performance and video installation at Epsilon Spires in Brattleboro, Vt., on Saturday, March 2, at 7 p.m.

Contact

Department Name

Digital Arts Program

Contact Name

Robert Knight, Director

Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

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