Digital media are reshaping contemporary art, design and critical thinking. Digital technologies are key factors in creative practices and industrial innovations. This interdisciplinary minor offers students in-depth instruction in leading contemporary critical theories and art and design practices in digital media. Students will develop critical and production skills to produce creative interventions in digitally mediated spaces, digital artworks, and prototypes for processes, interactions, objects, devices and environments.
The Interdisciplinary Minor in Digital Media is structured around a set of key digital concepts: Networks (Internet and distributed experiences); Installation and Social Space (concepts of tangible and virtual social space, materials, fabrication); Mobility (mobile media and interactions); and Code (programming, electronics).
COURSE COURSE NAME CREDIT
CODE
| The following course is required: | |
| DIGF 3B01 Networked Communities and Environments | 0.5 |
| Choose one: | |
| SOSC 2B02 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: (VISM 2B40) Introduction to Communication Studies |
0.5 |
| VISM 2B09 History of New Media Art | 0.5 |
| VISM 2B20 Web Theory (SOSC 2B20) |
0.5 |
Upon completion of the above, choose five elective courses from at least three of the four defined media areas: A. Networks; B. Installation and Social Space; C. Mobility; and D. Code. If you opt to take 0.25 credit electives you must take more than five courses for a minimum total of 2.5 elective credits.
You must complete at least one Faculty of Art studio (INTM) and at least one Faculty of Design studio (ADVR, ENVR, GDES, GRPH, ILLU). A minimum of 1.5 credits must be completed at the third- or fourth-year level.
| A. Networks | |
| ADVR 4A02 Interactive Space/Alternative Media | 0.25 |
| GDES 3B07 Interactive Communication: Smart Screens | 0.5 |
| GRPH 2A06 Interaction Design Studio | 0.25 |
| ILLU 3B13 Media Studio 2 | 0.25 |
| ILLU 3B14 Media Studio 3 | 0.25 |
| B. Installation and Social Space | |
| ENVR 2B15 Research Studio/Colour & Form | 0.5 |
| GDES 3B08 Wayfinding/Information Systems 1 | 0.5 |
| GDES 3B13 Compelling User Experience 1 | 0.5 |
| GDES 3B38 Ambient Experience Design | 0.5 |
| GDES 3B46 Explorations in Architectural Glass | 0.5 |
| INTM 2B33 Computer Modelling & Animation | 0.5 |
| INTM 4B10 Media Installations | 0.5 |
| C. Mobility | |
| GDES 3B20 Small Object Design: Virtual To Reality | 0.5 |
| GDES 3B27 Interactive Communication: Clever Devices | 0.5 |
| GDES 3B41 Play Behaviour and Game Design 1: An Introduction to Game Theory and Interactivity (not offered 2011-2012) |
0.5 |
| GDES 3B53 Interactive Communication: Beyond The Screen | 0.5 |
| D. Code | |
| INTM 2B24 Introduction to Electronics: Kinetic Objects | 0.5 |
| INTM 3B40 Advanced Electronics (not offered 2011-2012) | 0.5 |
| INTM 3B45 Bending Reclaimed Technology | 0.5 |
| Total 3.5 or 3.75 | |
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