12 Jan 2016

Get an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA)

UMBC's INTERMEDIA+DIGITAL ARTS (IMDA) M.F.A. Program invites interdisciplinary artists seeking to expand or reinvent their practice to apply. The IMDA program is committed to art that poses unique conceptual and social challenges while offering an environment that provides artists a studio, teaching opportunities, courses in emerging methods, contemporary art and theory, engaged faculty and high-end research centers that are typical of a research I university. During their course of study, IMDA students take advantage of Baltimore's vibrant art scene, airwaves of analog and digital data, and the white walls of the prestigious Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC), while pursuing issues such as food justice, the environment, transportation, urban communities, translation, race and gender identity, gift economies, and technology in both intellectual and formal terms.

State-of-the-art facilities in a variety of media-based disciplines result in forms that include street interventions, distributed networks, games, installations, performances, sculptural objects, prints, drawings, photographs, videos, interactive pieces, physical computing, digital fabrication, 3D maker output, public displays, and other socially engaged works.

Financial packages include Research Assistantships in teaching and creative research that includes tuition remission, health care and a stipend. Students are also eligible to apply for a variety of internal research and merit-based grants to support their work.

Prominent Visiting Artists present their work regularly and give one-on-one feedback to graduate students. Past lecturers include:
Janine Antoni, Stephanie Barber, Michael Bierut, Zoe Beloff, Catherine Chalmers, Paul Chan, Abigail Child, Annica Cupetelli and Cristobal Mendoza, Paul DeMarinis, Tony Dove, Joanna Drucker, David Dunlap, James Duesing, Hasan Elahi, eteam, Wendy Ewald, Darko Fritz, Dana Hoey, Nina Katchadourian, Larry Miller, Alison Knowles, @rtMark, Guerrilla Girls, Margot Lovejoy, Joseph Nechvatal, Simon Penney, Keith Piper, William Pope.L, Andrea Robbins and
Max Becher, David Rokeby, Frances Torres, Mark Tribe, Ted Victoria, Karen Yasinsky, Matmos, Fred Wilson, Martha Wilson and Michael Rakowitz and The Yes Men.

The most notable outcome of the IMDA M.F.A. program is that graduates are prepared for a lifetime of creative productivity, having acquired the skills, focus, and commitment that will consistently propel their adventurous and personal artistic practices to a new level. IMDA alumni present their work at distinguished museums, galleries, festivals, conferences, and symposia around the world and have garnered support from prestigious granting sources including J William Fulbright. Many have also successfully pursued gallery representation, run their own galleries and artists' spaces, worked in the production industry, and have become academic leaders at some of the most rigorous art academies and universities in the U.S. and abroad and have been part of the early wave of artists to earn doctoral degrees in emerging fields of practice-based arts research, especially in service to digital media.

Applications received by February 1st will receive full consideration towards financial packages: imda.umbc.edu/apply/

For more information: imda.umbc.edu.
Contact: imda@umbc.edu for more information or a tour of our facilities.