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Graduate Program Director: Shawn Greenlee
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The MFA in Digital + Media is a multidisciplinary graduate program that brings together art, technology, and media theory to support conceptually grounded, research-based creative practices. Students examine how historical and emerging technologies shape society, drawing from cultural studies, philosophy, social sciences, biology, and media archaeology. Areas of inquiry include human-computer interaction, simulation, communications infrastructure, environmental systems, technocultural histories, and computational arts. Working across diverse media - visual, sonic, and tactile - students develop projects that span expanded cinema, performance, projection mapping, robotics, kinetic sculpture, multimedia installation, interactive objects, art-science collaborations, and immersive sonic experiences - each reflecting a distinctive approach to cross-disciplinary research and technological experimentation.
Students
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Crystal Jiayin Ren
Thesis title
The Ruminating Shell: A Reparative Experiment in Dialogic Writing and Sensory Resonance
Beneath the Skin: A Resonant Structure of Body, Sound, and Memory_
2025
Goatskin, birch plywood, steel metal sheet, steel metal spring, machine screw and nut, metal insert
10 x 10 x 10 ft., loop
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Gery Vargas
Thesis title
Tierras Celosas
Untitled
2025
Cheap wood covered in crude oil from the Gulf of Mexico, Paint, Custom steel bracket$$, Oxidized chain, Plastic cover, Jersey Brown soil from New Jersey, Pneumatic pistons activated by seismic data in Peru, Rebar forms homes left unbuilt, Plastic ambiguous restaurant cart found in Rhode Island- sifting by transducers, Low frequencies from the depths of the earth- amplified over a geophone, Cosmic burlap from Guatemala, Textiles from Gamara,Peru, Cheap wood, surveillance footage over 1-channel video composition, Subs playing the low frequencies from the depths of Earth, Knives tracing the land, Ticking of a bomb
Dimensions variable
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Yu Ye
Thesis title
Returning into the Deep Forest: A Methodological Practice Around Memory, Asianness, and Speech
Where Mountain Breath Becomes a Language of Sighs
2025
Wood, metal fasteners, weft fusible interfacing, white solid polyester taffeta, polyester organza, wide-angle projector, speakers, fan
10 x 10 x 10 ft.
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