Transmedia at Syracuse University

Computer Art BFA

Contact Heath Hanlin, Department of Transmedia, 102 Shaffer Art Building, 443-1033.

Faculty Andy Fedak, Heath Hanlin, Annina Rüst

The Computer Art BFA at Syracuse University is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of digital media within a fine art, exploratory, and culturally aware setting. Through instruction in 3D computer animation, electronic object creation, code-based art, sound design and sonic art, students are mentored to become highly skilled critical thinkers producing art in individual and collaborative contexts.

In their freshman year, students build a strong foundation for working within the digital realm, while developing an artistic voice engaged in the language of the medium. During the second year we investigate the diverse possibilities of Computer Art - the intensity of which is oriented by the inclination of the student and tailored through mentorship. In the third and fourth years, we bring these skills into creative focus, demanding a professional art practice which is both technically sophisticated and critically engaged.

Within the Department of Transmedia, Computer Art is integrated with Film, Video, and Photography, allowing for a practice which is tightly focused, but free to traverse a network of related disciplines. This network expands into the rest of the university, challenging students to further develop the intellectual resources needed to inform their work. Through this process, students synthesize a perspective which is shaped within a web of mutual influence and discourse.

Celebrating our thirtieth year, the Computer Art program’s alumni are placed at some of the most prestigious animation and visual effects companies in the world - Pixar, Rhythm and Hues, Industrial Light and Magic, Lucasarts, Blizzard, Tippett Studios, Motion Picture Company, and Sony Pictures Imageworks - along with creative representation at galleries and media art festivals internationally. The program’s alumni and faculty have consistently pushed the edge publicly as to what it means to be a computer artist and continue to maintain that intensity today.

General Information Programs Art Photography Undergraduate Info Graduate Info Graduate Students Courses Student Work Faculty Yasser Aggour Doug Dubois Laura Heyman Art Video Undergraduate Info Graduate Info Graduate Students Courses Student Work Faculty John Orentlicher Tom Sherman Computer Art Undergraduate Info Graduate Info Graduate Students Courses Student Work Faculty Andy Fedak Heath Hanlin Annina Rüst Film Undergraduate Info Graduate Info Graduate Students Courses Equipment & Facilities Student Work Faculty Sharon Greytak Owen Shapiro Miso Suchy Soon-Mi Yoo Transmedia Core Faculty Emily Vey Duke Facilities People Connections	Computer Art BFA Contact Heath Hanlin, Department of Transmedia, 102 Shaffer Art Building, 443-1033. Faculty Andy Fedak, Heath Hanlin, Annina Rüst The Computer Art BFA at Syracuse University is dedicated to exploring the possibilities of digital media within a fine art, exploratory, and culturally aware setting. Through instruction in 3D computer animation, electronic object creation, code-based art, sound design and sonic art, students are mentored to become highly skilled critical thinkers producing art in individual and collaborative contexts. In their freshman year, students build a strong foundation for working within the digital realm, while developing an artistic voice engaged in the language of the medium. During the second year we investigate the diverse possibilities of Computer Art - the intensity of which is oriented by the inclination of the student and tailored through mentorship. In the third and fourth years, we bring these skills into creative focus, demanding a professional art practice which is both technically sophisticated and critically engaged. Within the Department of Transmedia, Computer Art is integrated with Film, Video, and Photography, allowing for a practice which is tightly focused, but free to traverse a network of related disciplines. This network expands into the rest of the university, challenging students to further develop the intellectual resources needed to inform their work. Through this process, students synthesize a perspective which is shaped within a web of mutual influence and discourse. Celebrating our thirtieth year, the Computer Art program’s alumni are placed at some of the most prestigious animation and visual effects companies in the world - Pixar, Rhythm and Hues, Industrial Light and Magic, Lucasarts, Blizzard, Tippett Studios, Motion Picture Company, and Sony Pictures Imageworks - along with creative representation at galleries and media art festivals internationally. The program’s alumni and faculty have consistently pushed the edge publicly as to what it means to be a computer artist and continue to maintain that intensity today.
Department of Transmedia • Syracuse University 102 Shaffer Art • Syracuse, NY 13224-1210 • tel: 315.443.1033 • fax: 315.443.1303