About the New Media Art Concentration
B.F.A. in Studio Art
Link to M.F.A. in Studio Art
New Media Art is an interdisciplinary and collaborative discipline focusing on our relationship with technology, visual culture and performance in contemporary art. This practice is rooted in the traditions of avant-garde processes and experimental art-making and responds to the rapid pace of technological development.
Students in the New Media Art concentration work closely with dedicated faculty and technicians to explore diverse methods of making in both the virtual and physical world. Projects challenge tradition and embrace new forms of aesthetic thinking, while all courses emphasize artistic excellence, active learning, and socially engaged practices. Students in this major enjoy adjacency to disciplines across the college and access to digital and analog tools.
Whether it is installation, film and video, physical computing, net art, performance, animation, immersive installations, sound, sensing devices, mapping, social practice, or participatory media, our students integrate the language of art and technology through an integrated and informed critical practice.
As you graduate, you will have been empowered to develop a personal voice, a professional and creative practice, self-discipline and cultural awareness. Students pursuing the B.F.A. complete a final portfolio of original, cohesive work.
The M.F.A. program integrates creative research, contemporary theory, and practice culminating in a project in lieu-of-thesis exhibition. Please visit the Studio Art M.F.A. web page for more information.
The New Media Art minor, listed in the current UNT Catalog, is designed to encourage students from all areas of the university to explore working in this art form.
Future undergraduate students: Apply to UNT; you will meet with an academic advisor during orientation. You also may contact CVAD Recruiter Kevin Contreras, Kevin.Contreras@unt.edu, for more information.
Currently enrolled undergraduate students: Contact a CVAD advisor on the CVAD Advising webpage.
Department of Studio Art: 940-369-7671 | studio@unt.edu | Art Building, Room 230
Note: Should you need reasonable accommodation due to a disability to fully participate in a CVAD event, please contact the CVAD Dean's Office, cvad@unt.edu, 940-565-4001. For voice access, dial 1-800-RELAYTX (735-2989). Please make the request as soon as possible to allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.