Digital Media Studies 2007/2008
The digital media studies (DMS) program at the University of Denver provides transdisciplinary support for the technically literate critical thinker who wishes to become adept at using digital media within a variety of scholarly, professional and creative contexts.
DMS fosters the work of innovative graduate students interested in using digital methods and forms to explore the many technologies and media that alter every aspect of our existence.
Our faculty members are active artists, scientists and scholars engaging such innovative areas of research and production as digital cinema, performance media, computer games, interactive narrative, Web and network practice, biomedia, and sound art. DMS production courses support instruction in technologies related to these areas. Our critical content includes seminars and lectures that explore the artistic, historical, critical, philosophical, legal, political and cultural dimensions of digital media. Courses delivered by adjunct faculty reflect our ties to various industries,
professionals, and independent artists and researchers. We also support an ongoing series of international visiting artists and scholars.
DMS draws students from many disciplines and backgrounds. We seek students who have a solid track record of independent thinking and creative problem solving. Our students form connections across the arts and sciences as a way to track digital media’s transformation of our tools of expression, our means of cognition and symbol processing, and our modes of social organization.
The program’s core faculty regularly present creative work, perform and participate in conferences on an international scale. We look for students eager to join us as participants within this global community of digital scholarship and artistry.
Participation may take the form of critical and creative publication, networked discussions, conference or festival contributions, performance, ideos, audio works, games, interactive media, locative media projects and more. Our program
supports this agenda by combining a rigorous foundational curriculum with a flexible set of electives and opportunities for directed research and production.