Time-Based + Media Art
View of Time-Based Art Practice: Expanded Cinema course session, 2023.
The Time-Based + Media Art concentration focuses on art practices that use time as a medium of expression, engaging in digital, electronic, acoustic, cinematic, and performance-based methods.
Students learn how to create works in video, digital film, sound art, animation, performance, media-based installation, and other hybrid forms of digital and media technologies.
Coursework
Intro to Time Based courses are required in order to take more advanced Art Practice courses in the Time Based + Media Art concentration, such as Expanded Cinema, Sound Environments, and Mediated Performance. A range of area electives focus on media histories, as well as production and post-production of media projects, and include Affective Stills + The Moving Image and Lost in Space: Media Art and Immersive Environments, among others.
Consulting sessions and critiques offer additional support for students and area faculty, supporting the creation of media-based artworks using various technologies.
Resources
The Media Studio in Weil Hall is the home of the Time Based + Media Art (TBMA) concentration in BFA in Visual Art degree. Media Studio is a teaching space where TBMA area classes, lectures, screenings, performance and critiques take place. Additionally, the Media Studio provides space, equipment and training to support greater Sam Fox School community in creation of time-based and media art. Students currently enrolled in TBMA area courses, area majors and area faculty have equipment/space reservation priority. Visit the Media Studio webpage for more information about space, training and equipment opportunities.