Art Video

The bachelor of fine arts (B.F.A.) degree program in art video addresses the use of video as a medium for making contemporary art. We encourage a multidisciplinary approach to video, providing opportunities for you to interact with fellow students throughout the University. Video is a social medium.

You investigate the many ways video technology is used creatively: as single channel works challenging the conventions of narrative and documentary form; as a visual art form integrating computer-generated images, audio experimentation, and performance art; and as a sculptural medium used in site-specific installations.

In beginning classes, video is approached freely as a medium for perceptual and conceptual development. Students bring their interests to class through video recordings, simultaneously learning about themselves, their world, and the video medium. In subsequent classes students are required to produce work informed by the history and theoretical tenets of the medium.

Students will use multiple formats of video and have access to complete off-line and online analog and digital post-production facilities, including a discrete digital audio suite. Audio, including music, is a key aspect of this time-based medium. To help our students learn, we have one of the best collections of artists’ tapes in the United States.

Besides becoming independent video artists, our graduates are video information specialists in a growing number of professional sectors—in professional production and post-production firms serving educational, training, publishing, and entertainment industries, as well as in-house video producers for major corporations in the United States and abroad.