About New Media
30 Years of Creative Technology Innovation
New Media celebrated its 30th anniversary as a degree program in 2026, and has recently become its own Department at TMU 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 more and more entangled in digital systems, our ability to explore and assess their influence becomes increasingly essential.
Since its inception, the New Media program has helped its students develop and hone many of the top skills identified by employers as essential to the 21st-century workforce such as:
Creative, analytical & systems thinking
Resilience, flexibility & agility
Technological literacy
Curiosity and play as preparation for life-long learning
Through the lens of art education, our program prepares students to become highly skilled creative thinkers who can frame increasingly interconnected and 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 students to 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: exploring and speculating about alternate worldviews and social change related to identity, bodies, social justice, ecologies through the use of queer play, speculative design, experience design, interaction design, games, computational arts, tangible media, interactive storytelling, media for social change, systems thinking, robotics, cybernetics, wearable computing, generative processes, DIY and open source creation, Indigenous media, mixed and extended realities, networked art, video art and data visualization.