Emergent Media

The Emergent Media track examines the new forms and technologies of moving-image media in the digital present, such as social media, video games, interactive fiction, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and the Internet of Things (IoT). Working in collaboration with instructors from Columbia’s Digital Storytelling Lab, students on this track take a range of classes on New Media Art, Media Archaeology, and Digital Storytelling, with topics ranging from the history of interactivity to world-building. Courses in this track combine the concerns of history and theory with practical and design applications.

Students can choose electives both from the School of the Arts and from Columbia University Arts departments. They do so, furthermore, in a world capital of film and television culture, where they are afforded the advantages of research in New York area film and television archives and libraries: New York Public Library, The Paley Center for Media, and have held internships at Museum of the Moving Image, Museum of Modern Art, and Film Society of Lincoln Center.

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