Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices (IMAP)

Rick Silva image of video installation

Rick Silva (MFA Digital Arts 2007)

Today, I am a practicing artist and an Associate Professor of Art & Technology at the University of Oregon. I feel so lucky to have been at CU and received mentorship from so many inspiring and dedicated professors.

Melanie Clemmons live video performance

Melanie Clemmons (MFA Digital Arts 2015)

I've been collaborating and doing live visuals on tour with Pussy Riot! I also continue to make and show work internationally and have been teaching at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX as an Assistant Professor of Digital/Hybrid Media in the Meadows School of the Arts.

Video still of a buffalo by Paul Echeverria

Paul Echeverria (MFA Digital Arts 2014)

CU provided the perfect setting for contemplation, reflection, and artistic expression. The art program offers an inspired community of students, faculty, studios, and exhibition spaces. The most valuable aspect of attending CU was the ability to exhibit and perform in multiple creative spaces. During my time in the IMAP program and TECHNE lab, our work was presented in cafes, galleries, theaters, and museum spaces.

Disciplines

Interdisciplinary Media Art Practices (IMAP) encompasses photo imaging, video, digital, sound, performance and related approaches to technology based art. This area embraces critical art practice from analog to digital, historical to cutting edge and everything in between.

Area Faculty

Alumni Spotlight

Rick Silva

MFA, Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices (IMAP), 2007
Digital Art

My main motivation to attend CU was to study digital art with Prof Mark Amerika. The graduate teaching opportunities, access to professional equipment and facilities, and easy access to the Rocky Mountains also made it my top choice. 

A highlight was receiving a graduate research award for my multimedia internet art project titled SCREENFULL. The other recipients that year were all science PHDs, and it was affirming to be recognized at that level and context. SCREENFULL was recently featured in Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology book.

My newest project is a series of 8 videos titled CORES. They are a collaboration with Vancouver BC based artist Nicolas Sasoon. The online version premiered this fall and includes an accompanying essay by Elise Hunchuck and Jussi Parikka . An installation version of CORES will be shown at the Hors-Pistes exhibition at the Pompidou Centre in Paris from Jan-Feb 2021.

Melanie Clemmons

MFA, Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices (IMAP), 2015
Digital Art

The visiting artist program was an invaluable part of my experience as a graduate student. I was able to meet artists I admired, and am fortunate enough to continue to keep in touch with them.

I'm currently working on a solo show about live cams and healing for Women & Their Work Gallery in Austin, TX, and am an assistant professor of digital/hybrid media at Southern Methodist University.

Before I attended ²ÊÃñ±¦µä, I worked a lot of random day jobs and would spend my free time doing live visuals for bands and installations, and teaching myself how to make net art. When I found out that professor Mark Amerika had a similar background and was critically engaging with that kind of art at the graduate level, I was intrigued and wanted to work with him and in the IMAP program.

Yana Payusova

MFA, Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices (IMAP), 2006

I have been teaching at the University of Arizona in Tucson and have just accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Texas at Arlington and will be moving to Dallas/Fort Worth in August. In the studio I am working on a large-scale ceramic installation entitled Memory as Weight, Power, Burden which is scheduled to be shown at the Museum of Russian Icons in March 2021.

CU Bouder's MFA program gave me the time, the necessary resources and all possible support to develop and mature as an artist. I really appreciated the interdisciplinary nature of the program, as we were able to take any course that we were interested in and interact with other MFA students from painting, ceramics, art history, etc. during graduate seminars. The relationships I built with my fellow graduate students have turned into lifelong friendships and these people are now my collaborators, colleagues and closest friends.