Multimedia
The Multimedia emphasis provides students majoring in Art the opportunity to study an aggregate of courses related to time-based media, interactivity, experimental narrative, timespace approaches to installation, and interdisciplinary approaches to art and design. This course of study provides an opportunity for interdisciplinary studies incorporating traditional and emerging technologies.
The interactive and narrative concepts using electronic and time based media in the course of study in Multimedia provide students an understanding of industries in web design, interactive media, gaming, DVD interface and navigation, motion graphics, instructional systems, and publishing.
The course of study Multimedia offers the opportunity for students interested in the Art Major to cross disciplines and use new technologies in their work. Interactive environments, Net art, video and sound are potential forms of expression in the fine arts that can be explored within this emphasis.
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Undergraduate Program
Most of the courses in the Multimedia emphasis have a digital or time-based focus. There is flexibility for choices of courses based on the students interest. Areas of focus in this emphasis can include graphic design, photography, web design, interactive CD Rom development, 3D graphics and animation, video and installation environments. Although not currently listed in the SDSU General Catalog the Multimedia emphasis will be offered starting in 2004/05.
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Graduate Program
Possible investigations in the graduate program in Multimedia include interface design, non-linear navigational systems, language/sound/image relationships, experimental narrative, installation, art/science collaborations and other hybrid forms of creative expression. The knowledge and experience using contemporary media and technology gained in this program are valuable preparation for academic positions in higher education in art and design. Although not currently listed in the SDSU General Catalog the Multimedia emphasis will be offered starting in 2004/05.
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Area Facilites
Students have access to two computer labs in the School of Art, Design and Art History: A-213 and A-216. Classes are often held in the labs and open lab hours are scheduled regularly so students can work on assignments. The labs are equipped with Macintosh and PC computers with an array of digital media software and have projection systems for lecturer instruction. All computers are networked and have access to the Internet. Flatbed scanners, film scanners, laser printers, and digital cameras are also available to students. Two darkrooms and studio space are available to students enrolled in photo imagery courses. It is encouraged that all students enrolling within the Multimedia emphasis invest in their own computing system and software.
Faculty Bios
Mark Siprut
Mark Siprut is an educator, artist and designer. He received his MFA degree in Printmaking at University of California, Santa Barbara and MA degree in Photography at Humboldt State University.
His current creative research is in time-base, interactive and electronic media. He uses non–linear interactive narrative formats to combine and present photography, video, text, and sound. His work challenges the viewer to interpret time and space relationships. He investigates new media formats relating to how audiences consume and perceive visual, audio and textual information. Content of his artwork explores social and political issues, related to life cycle events, and cross-cultural and generational comparisons.
Siprut's work has been exhibited internationally. He promotes collaborative, interdisciplinary, and intercultural applications to visual communication. He is currently an academic advisor and a School Liaison for international programs in Art at SDSU.
Siprut is the author of the Adobe Photoshop Handbook v3, published by Random House. In 1995-96 he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in Graphic Design at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey and in 2003 he taught at Anadolu University in Eskisehir, Turkey.
Kim Stringfellow
Stringfellow’s most recent work addresses ecological and historical issues related to land use and the built environment through “hybrid documentary forms” involving, but not limited to digital media, photography and installation. The majority of these projects address land use practices and repercussions of human development within the western United States.
Her projects are designed as both virtual and physical installations and have been commissioned by leading organizations including the San Francisco-based Creative Work Fund, the Seattle Arts Commission and Cornish College of the Arts. She has won numerous awards including Best-Art Related Web Site at the 1999 South-By-Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival for The Charmed Horizon, a web-based project dealing with the nature of desire as subject. Her work has been exhibited at ISEA, SIGGRAPH, San Francisco Camerawork, Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham College, Loyola Marymont University and Washington State University. In 2000, she attended the prestigious Civitella Ranieri Center residency in Umbria, Italy organized through the Atlantic Center of the Arts.Publications include Sculpture, Photo Metro, Leonardo, Art Alternatives and SF Camerawork Quarterly. In 2002, she took part in Paisajes Toxicos, a group exhibit organized by the Puffin Foundation at the José Martínez National Library in Havana, Cuba.
Kim Stringfellow received her MFA in Art and Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Her online projects and photography can be viewed at www.kimstringfellow.com.