Digital Media

I went after my research with a digital/new media angle... So here are some cool things that combine art + technology:

School of Visual Art : MFA in Computer Art -- located in NYC

" The MFA Computer Art Department emphasizes creativity and a multidisciplinary approach to making art with computers and emerging technologies.

• The goal of the program is to develop artists who will produce significant creative work throughout their careers
• The faculty comprises internationally renowned artists, curators, critics, theorists and industry professionals—a who’s who of New York’s art world
• Recently renovated, state-of-the-art facilities; named one of the top ten digital art schools in the world"

It seems like it focuses more on commercial jobs than fine art, since they say, "Graduates of the department are employed by the most prestigious digital studios : Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar, DreamWorks, Disney, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Rhythm & Hues, Digital Domain, Blue Sky Studios, mtv and Electronic Arts."

Ars Electronica -- Linz, Austria
"Art, technology, society. Since 1979, Ars Electronica has sought out interlinkages and congruities, causes and effects. The ideas circulating here are innovative, radical, eccentric in the best sense of that term. They influence our everyday life—our lifestyle, our way of life, every single day.

The Festival as proving ground, the Prix as competition honoring excellence, the Center as a year-‘round setting for presentation & interaction, and the Futurelab as in-house R&D facility extend their feelers throughout the realms of science and research, art and technology. Ars Electronica’s four divisions inspire one another and put futuristic visions to the test in a unique, creative feedback loop. It’s an integrated organism continuously reinventing itself."

Note to self: learn German.

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

Not much info on their website but it might be a cool place to visit. However, not necessarily a good place to submit artwork?

Lastly, this gallery in NYC that seems really awesome: Bitforms Gallery

"bitforms gallery is devoted to emerging and established artists who embrace new media and contemporary art practice."