Digital Media

Create new forms of expression

YSU’s Digital Media area is part of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Studio Art, Interdisciplinary Studio Arts degree and teaches students to use the creative tools of tomorrow. You’ll explore the ways in which new technologies are engines of personal exploration and cultural production. You’ll also experiment with new ways of expressing yourself through video, interactive media, 3D printing and digital fabrication, and creative coding. You’ll discover that technology is a tool for creative experimentation, a device for the artistic manipulation of data, and instrumental in the creation of dynamic user experience and interaction. The skills you acquire in Digital Media will prepare you for careers in a variety of cultural industries.

 

B.F.A. in Studio Art, Interdisciplinary Studio Arts degree requirements

Explore detailed information about our in-person degree, including program overview, the classes in which you'll enroll, your projected courswork sequence, and more.

 

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Facilities

Our state-of-the-art facilities and industry-standard technology and equipment empower our students to create professional work. Digital Media students have access to a range of digital equipment in our labs.

 

 

 

Technology + equipment

  1. Apple iMac workstations
  2. Full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (including Classic Lightroom, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premier, as well as Rhinoceros 3D and opensource creative software like Processing and Arduino)
  3. Fabrication labs (featuring multiple digital tools, such as 3D printers, CNC routers, laser cutters, and AR/VR)
 

Exhibition spaces

When the time comes for you to display your projects, you’ll have the opportunity to exhibit solo, group, or experimental work in the McDonough Museum of Art, the Judith Rae Solomon Gallery, or our Student Project Gallery.
 

solomon gallery

 

Meet our faculty

Our dedicated and professionally involved faculty are actively engaged in helping Interdisciplinary Studio Arts students successfully transition into positions with regional and national creative industries or graduate programs.

 

Dana Sperry

Professor
Office: Bliss 4081

 jdsperry@ysu.edu   
 330.941.3627