MS Degree Program

Area of Concentration in Digital Art

KSI's Digital Arts Degree is designed for students and professionals to create digital art forms such as Interactive Multimedia, High Definition Video and Video Installations, state-of-the art 2D and 3D Computer Graphics, Sound Design, Music Composition, Computer-Aided Design and Digital Arts History, Media Theory and Aesthetics. Digital Art can also be used to help students understand the creative process. Because our digital program combines both art and science, it can be an effective concentration for a scientist with an artistic inclination or an artist with scientific interests. The specialty can lead to businesses involved in creating or providing content for other companies. Renowned multimedia artist Miroslaw Rogala is the Director and Artist-in-Residence of KSI Graduate School's Digital Art Center. KSI Digital Art students will get to take courses at both KSI's main campus, and at Dr. Rogala's fully-equipped Digital Art studio. Dr Rogala was previously the Chair of the CGIM/Computer Graphics and Interactive Media department at Pratt Institute in New York. Dr. Rogala's artwork has appeared in galleries world-wide including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Digital Art Museum in Berlin, the Schafler Gallery in New York, and the Chaoyang University of Technology in Taiwan. His work has also been featured in collections and exhibitions in 44 different countries including France, Brazil, and Poland. As an artist and educator, Dr. Rogala encourages and inspires students to think about democracy, not in a traditional or political sense, but in a way that allows for audience interaction and participation in order to become an integral part of the artwork itself. His artworks give the audience as much interaction and contact as possible so that the audience itself becomes essential to the creation of the work: "The intent of my works has grown from the individual's responsibility for his/her experience to the social construction of the work by multiple (v)users* - a more complex model of democratic artistic experience - and finally towards the practical construction of an utopian network, in which the possibilities and demands of global media democracy can be explored." *(V)User is a term introduced by Dr. Miroslaw Rogala to discuss participants who are both viewers and users in the interaction with the artwork and between themselves. Degree Requirements The concentration in Digital Art requires 30 credit hours of coursework (that is, 10 graduate classes), a 9 credit hour research paper, and successful completion of a comprehensive exam. The course listings below indicate in greater detail the content of our training in Digital Art. The three courses: CIS513, CIS514 and CIS517 may be substituted by other courses or directed study courses subject to the approval of the academic advisor, the department chair and the dean. Required Core Courses   CIS571 Introduction to Digital Art CIS513 Multi-Media Information Systems CIS514 User Interface Engineering CIS517 Advanced Computer Graphics     Area Courses   CIS572 Digital Art Workshop CIS573 Digital Production Studio CIS574 Digital Video Production CIS575 Digital Audio Production CIS576 DV Independent Film Production CIS577 Digital Cinematography   MS Digital Art Research Project (9 credits): CIS599A, CIS599B, and CIS599C   >> For students who lack an adequate computer science background, there may be prerequisite requirements of up to seven courses within a chosen concentration. Contact us