Digital Arts
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
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.
Meet Our Faculty
photography, history of photography, video capture and editing, Adobe premiere, art foundations curriculum, and 2D and 4D fundamentals
History of photography; photojournalism and news media; modern and contemporary visual culture; media studies; digital humanities; World War II and the Holocaust; Jewish Studies
sculpture, drawing, and digital media
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
complex hunter-gatherers in the interior Pacific Northwest; the forager/farmer transition in Southwest Asia; rural coastal adaptations in western Ireland
hybrid and multimedia performance; sound; technology and interactivity; collaborative media and performance strategies
Explore Hamilton Stories
Majireck, Huff, Roberts, McEachern Receive 2024-25 Teaching Awards
Four Hamilton College faculty members were awarded Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching by Dean of Faculty Ngoni Munemo. Announced during the May 6 faculty meeting, those honored were selected from among 47 nominations received from 80 students.
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.
Huff Discusses AI at CAA Conference
Assistant Professor of Digital Arts Anna Huff recently presented “Channelers: AI, authorship, mysticism and meaning making in creative practice and pedagogy” at the 113th annual conference of the College Art Association (CAA).
Contact
Department Name
Digital Arts Program
Contact Name
Robert Knight, Program Director
Clinton, NY 13323
