About New Media

30 Years of Creative Technology Innovation

New Media will be celebrating its 30th anniversary as a degree program in 2026, and has recently become its own Department in the Creative School in 2025!

The discipline of New Media Art is a constantly evolving collection of practices that define, interrogate, inform and critically respond to contemporary shifts in technology and culture. As society becomes ever more embedded in established and emerging digital systems, our ability to critically explore and assess these trajectories becomes increasingly essential.

Since its inception, the New Media program has helped its students develop and hone many of the top work skills identified by the World Economic Forum as essential to the 21st-century workforce such as: 

Through the lens of art education, our program prepares students to become highly skilled, creative and critical thinkers who can frame increasingly interconnected, complex problems and determine effective solutions within an ever-changing technological landscape.

New Media prepares students to grow as creative individuals, fostering their ability to feel, see, dream, learn and make. Our innovative experiential learning environment supports developing a creative and critical approach that helps them frame and solve problems in uniquely human ways.

A diverse range of mediums and approaches

Areas of specialization across New Media faculty and staff include: experience design, interaction design, games, computational arts, tangible media, natural information and communication systems, interactive storytelling, media for social change, systems thinking, robotics, regenerative cultures and systems, net zero systems, environmental computing, cybernetics, wearable computing, generative processes, DIY and open source creation, Indigenous media, mixed and extended realities, networked art, video art, data visualization and creative AI.