The Digital Arts and New Media (DANM) MFA program at UC Santa Cruz is accepting applications for Fall 2017. Deadline: January 10, 2017.

Explore the creative potentials and social implications of emerging technologies. Experiment with ideas, processes, collaborative research, and social action. Become a critical thinker, artistic innovator, and responsible leader.

Our innovative two-year MFA program emphasizes artistic and scholarly research that is interdisciplinary and collaborative. Research project groups are a distinctive hallmark of our curriculum. With close faculty mentorship, small clusters of students collaborate on artistic, technical, and theoretical projects. Core and elective courses in the theory and practice of digital media arts support the development of individual thesis projects, premiered in our annual MFA exhibition.

Prospective students apply to a specific research project group and are selected by the faculty leading it for admission to the program. Upcoming research project groups include Art & Science, Experimental Play, and Socially Engaged Art.