Digital Interactivity

Catalog description

User input can affect a wide range of new media artworks that may include animation, sound, web projects, and robotics. In this hands-on introduction, students will learn techniques for harnessing analog and digital inputs to create responsive, interactive artworks. Students will explore functional, ethical, and aesthetic frameworks for interactivity; develop skills to conceptualize, code, and craft their own interactive projects; and discover how to apply digital interactivity in engaging, participatory artworks. Through projects, experiments, lectures, readings, and field trips, this course introduces New Media Arts (NMA) students to programming and microcontrollers; no previous programming experience is necessary.NMA 3012 can be used as an elective within the New Media Arts minor or as a general elective for the BA, BBA, or BS degrees.Prerequisite: NMA 2050 or ART 3057.