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BFA in Studio Art: New Media

The New Media concentration invites you to explore digital tools and emerging technologies as a way to understand and shape the world around you. Through video, sound, code, animation, performance, and interactive media, you’ll create bold, critical, and expressive work that lives across screens, spaces, and platforms.

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Daniel Harmon

Studio Art: New Media

We live in a world shaped by screens, systems, and digital experiences, from social media and interactive art to gaming and AI. New Media is where art, technology, and everyday life come together.

At Illinois, you’ll join a vibrant Studio Art community with access to cutting-edge tools and expert faculty who encourage curiosity, technical fluency, and a future-facing approach to art and culture. You’ll learn to ask big questions, challenge norms, and imagine new ways of seeing, feeling, and being in the world.

Our courses emphasize experimentation, material fluency, and ethical engagement with emerging tools and platforms. Here, your foundation won’t just be digital, it will be deeply human, blending analog traditions with environmental awareness and new media innovation.

Join creators, thinkers, and builders shaping what comes next in art and technology.

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