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Video

The video disciplineÌýemphasizes interdisciplinary thinking and approaches to video as an art form as part of a larger investigation of moving image art. The video disciplineÌýis interested in the student’s individual development and personal growth. Students are encouraged to seek links with other art forms as important sources of inspiration and critical understanding of their creative work. As part of a large liberal arts university, students are encouraged to seek relationships with other disciplines within the university. Students from diverse disciplines are encouraged to collaborate on creative projects across departments.

The classroom is treated as a laboratory for the creation, fermentation, and exploration of ideas that stress creativity as well as a place to discuss the relevance of those ideas relative to historical and contemporary issues. The area stresses the importance of interdisciplinary and multicultural understanding in the student’s artistic, educational, and personal growth. The disciplineÌýactively engages students and their work with relevant historical, practical, aesthetic, and philosophical structures to help place themselves and their work within a larger contextual understanding of art making.

Video classes are open to undergraduate and graduate students from all areas of the university. Regularly taught classes include Beginning Video Production and Transmedia: Photography & Video. Class size is limited to 10 students. All the classes are designed to combine hands-on experience in all aspects of video art making with practical and theoretical criticism, that provides historical, social and aesthetic backgrounds for the understanding of moving image art.

The video disciplineÌýhas its own equipment dedicated to the classes including cameras, microphones, audio recorders, tripods, lights, projectors, voice-over/audio recording booth, equipment cage, classroom/screening room and dedicated video editing lab with 24 hour access.

Undergraduate students from the video disciplineÌýhave gone into top graduate school programs, internships, and related jobs in the field. Graduate student alumni are now teaching at major institutions, have developed their own media art programs and have become chairs of media areas in universities, have won awards, grants, have been reviewed in national magazines, and their works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. If you are interested in a Filmmaking MFA Track please visit Department of Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts for more information or email the Art & Art History Graduate Coordinator.