Application deadline: January 15, 2015
Broad Art Center
240 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1456
MFA in Media Arts
The MFA Program in Media Arts offers a rigorous environment for the sustained exploration of contemporary arts practice in the context of media and technology. Students are challenged to question conventional ideas about art, technology, and new media while developing a critical awareness of their work. Graduate students come from diverse backgrounds including the visual and performing arts, architecture, science, and engineering.
The department’s world-renowned faculty includes Rebecca Allen, Johanna Drucker, Erkki Huhtamo, Robert Israel, Willem Henri Lucas, Peter Lunenfeld, Rebeca Mendez, Christian Moeller, Casey Reas, Ramesh Srinivasan, Jennifer Steinkamp, Eddo Stern, and Victoria Vesna.
The program is currently accepting applications from artists with diverse backgrounds, including the visual and performing arts, architecture, science, and engineering.
Application and additional information about the program is available here.
Fall MFA Exhibition 2015
The UCLA Department of Design Media Arts presents the Media Arts MFA Fall Exhibition. This show marks the halfway point of the two year program and features work of six artists from the class of 2016. The exhibition runs from October 15 to October 23 in The New Wight Gallery at UCLA with an opening reception on Thursday, October 15 from 5 to 8pm.
Exhibiting artists include Adam Ferriss, Jesse Fleming, Hsin-Yu Lin, Peter Lu, Neil Mendoza, and Theo Triantafyllidis.
This event is free and open to the public.
More information about the show can be found here.
The New Wight Gallery
240 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Hours: Monday–Friday 10am–5pm
DMA 2015–16 lecture series
Each year the Department of Design Media Arts presents a lecture series of contemporary practitioners in the fields of Art, Design, and Technology. In addition to public lectures and workshops, visitors engage with the current MFA students through salons and studio visits.
This year the series features Philippe Vergne, David Wexler, Aram Bartholl, Toni Dove, and distinguished alums Eric Hirshberg, Nova Jiang, and 2015 Guggenheim Fellow Pinar Yoldas.
More information is available here.
The Department of Design Media Arts
The Department of Design Media Arts (DMA) at UCLA cultivates a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to artistic practice that focuses experimentation and innovative thinking. We synthesize practice, history, and theory and hybridize technologies, discourses, and audiences. Artists in the program create work for books, galleries, game consoles, installations, films, magazines, performances, public spaces, televisions, and websites. We strive to create socially and culturally relevant objects, experiences, and spaces.