Time-Based + Media Art
The Time-Based + Media Art concentration focuses on art practices that use time as a medium of expression, engaging in digital, electronic, acoustic, cinematic, and performance-based methods.
Students learn how to create works in video, digital film, sound art, animation, performance, media-based installation, and other hybrid forms of digital and media technologies.
COURSES
Intro to Time-Based courses are required to take more advanced Art Practice courses in the Time-Based + Media Art concentration, such as Expanded Cinema, Sound Environments, and Mediated Performance. A range of area electives focus on media histories, as well as production and post-production of media projects, and include Affective Stills + The Moving Image and Lost in Space: Media Art and Immersive Environments, among others.
Consulting sessions and critiques offer additional support for students and area faculty, supporting the creation of media-based artworks using various technologies.
Intro to Time-Based: Working with Time
This introductory studio provides an overview of the last 50 years of the history of time-based contemporary art and supports the production of time-based media art through a variety of digital and analog tools.
Expanded Cinema
In this experimental video art studio, students create a body of work in digital film or video, silent and with sound, created for space and for screen addressing such themes as dream versus reality, film as an expansion of space and time, and sound as film.
Mediated Performance
In this advanced course, students explore the body as a time-based medium and vehicle for expression. Students create performance-based video and sound works that are mediated with electronic or digital technology and performed or screened in public.
Featured Student Work
FACULTY
Senior Lecturer; Co-Area Coordinator - Time-Based Media Art
Florence and Frank Bush Professor in Art
Professor; Co-Area Coordinator - Time-Based Media Art
Studios and Facilities
The Media Studio in Weil Hall is the home of the Time Based + Media Art (TBMA) concentration. It is a teaching space for TBMA area classes, lectures, screenings, performance and critiques. Additionally, the Media Studio provides space, equipment and training to support the greater Sam Fox School community in creating time-based and media art. Students currently enrolled in TBMA area courses, area majors and area faculty have equipment/space reservation priority.