The Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) graduate program is committed to investigating transformations of emerging artistic practices, especially those that give rise to new processes that pose unique conceptual and social challenges. During their three-year course of study, IMDA students use the streets of Baltimore, waves of analog and digital data, and the white walls of the prestigious Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC at UMBC) as their artistic venues. Recent graduate students have pursued issues of food justice, security, transportation, place, language, identity, economics, and technology in both intellectual and formal terms, resulting in projects such as street interventions, distributed networks, physical computing, games, installations, performances, sculptural objects, prints, drawings, photographs, videos, interactive pieces, animations, public displays, and other socially engaged works. Our national and international students are guided by a transdisciplinary dialog with engaged faculty and eminent visiting artists, critics, and curators. Each student has a studio, as well as access to a range of state-of-the-art facilities including film, video and audio production, computer labs, photography, and print facilities. Financial support includes Research Assistantships that entail teaching classes and assisting in labs such as the CADVC and the renowned Imaging Research Center (IRC) at UMBC. The path toward the M.F.A. prepares students for a culminating thesis exhibition at the CADVC and a published written thesis.
