OCAD UNIVERSITY’S DIGITAL FUTURES INITIATIVE
Digital culture and tools are transforming everyday life, creative practices, business models and cultural industries. With the rapid evolution of technological platforms, many artists and designers are moving beyond current technologies and inventing new and hybrid approaches to research and studio practices.
OCAD U offers several exciting, innovative programs in Digital Futures:
Undergraduate Studies
Graduate Studies
The Digital Futures: Technology/Innovation/Design/Art (DF:TIDA) undergraduate program is an interdisciplinary program linking digital technology and innovation with Design and Art studio practice. Students in the DF:TIDA program acquire skills in computation, physical computing, data visualization, screen-based media, gaming, and business, and will be well-positioned to work across the digital media sector from either art, design or critical perspectives. Focused on linking multiple studio-based digital media concentrations in the Faculty of Art and Faculty of Design, the curriculum reflects the expertise and skills of faculty engaged in research and digital practice. Students graduate with either a Bachelor of Fine Arts or a Bachelor of Design, with a specialization in digital media and related technologies.
The interdisciplinary minor in Digital Media offers undergraduate students in-depth instruction in leading contemporary critical theories and art and design practices in digital media. Students develop critical and production skills to produce creative interventions in digitally mediated spaces, digital artworks, and prototypes for processes, interactions, objects, devices and environments.
The interdisciplinary minor in On-Screen Media offers undergraduate students an interdisciplinary approach to a range of audiovisual media that supports innovation and leading edge creativity through its integral multimedia structure. It is designed as a site for interdisciplinary and trans-media discourse and production innovations that encompass film, video and digital media concerns with screen concept, sequence, narrative and storytelling.
The following undergraduate courses offer students a good place to start if they want to add digital practices to their program or are just interested in knowing more about this area:
DIGF 3B01 Networked Communities and Environments (not offered 2011/12)
GDES 3B07 Interactive Communication: Smart Screens
GDES 3B27 Interactive Communication: Clever Devices
GDES 3B53 Interactive Communication: Beyond the Screen
INTM 2B24 Introduction to Electronics: Kinetic Objects
INTM 2B34 Hybrid Media Lab
INTM 3B17 Publications: Digital
INTM 4B10 Media Installation
INTM 4B20 Co-Lab
VISM 2B09 History of New Media Art
VISM 4B06 Global Mesh: Internet, Networks, Globalization and Digital Resistance
VISM 4B24 The Body and the Machine: Interrogating the Posthuman in Art and Design
With its framework of critical thinking and practice, business and innovation studies, computation/computer science and contemporary and emerging digital methodologies, the full-time Master’s or part-time Graduate Diploma in Digital Futures develops practice-based and scholarly research in technologically advanced design, art and digital media. Graduates of the program contribute to the development and application of new knowledge in creative digital technology practices, content and experiences, providing insights into human needs and desires in a technologically dependent world. A unique element of the graduate programs is its partnership with the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) Media Lab, which affords students the opportunity to engage in an Intensive Project/Prototyping Spring Institute held at the MaRS Discovery District.
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