Program Overview

The Intermedia Area of The University of Iowa School of Art & Art History is an interdisciplinary program committed to experimental, hybrid creative research, development and production in time-based media, installation, community-based practice and new media. Intermedia area offers BFA, two-year MA, and three-year MFA degrees programs.

Intermedia students are engaged in interdisciplinary research and production in time-based media, experimental video, new media, installation and community-based practice. Students are encouraged to work with the exceptional resources of the University including (but not limited to) Music, Creative Writing, Center for the Book, Cinema and Comparative Literature, Theater, Dance, Computer Science, Communications Studies, International Programs and the broad range of programs in liberal arts and sciences, as well as other areas within the School of Art and Art History.

Intermedia students engage fully in the cultural life of the university and community, participating in conferences, screening, exhibition and other public opportunities. Students are also encouraged to work with non-profit agencies, as part of Intermedia's Artists In Community initiative.

Facilities

Shared lab facilities at Intermedia include Mac-based video and New Media work stations. Production equipment for video, including high definition cameras, tripods, mics, digital projectors, etc.) is also available. In fall 2006 Intermedia opened a Sound Design Lab that suports 5.1 production.

Intermedia has gallery, project and work spaces for the development and presentation of new work.

Intermedia graduate and BFA students are also provided studio space.

Research Initiatives

Intermedia is also involved in a number of research initiatives including:

• The Writing University Experimental Wing [ launched December 2006]. The 'Wing' is developing a range of projects mining the rich potential of creative hypertext online;
• Projekt Oko Sokolovo, [Croatian for "Project Hawkeye"] a semester-long residency for Intermedia graduate students in Rijeka on the Croatian peninsula of Istria on the Adriatic;
• Intermedia Artists in Community, promoting civic engagement and community-based practice;
• ICSC TV Online!, a collaboration with Iowa City Senior Center Television to deliver streaming media content online;
• The Daily Palette, showcasing Iowa-identified artists and writers on the University web site;
• Intermedia Publishing, launched fall 2006 with the publication online of a catalog of Intermedia's spring 2006 Graduate Open House].
• Radio Intermedia; [projected launch 2009-2010];
• and Intermedia Recycles, an in-house ecology project.