New Mexico School for the Arts Visual Arts Department hosts New Media Festival Feb. 10. Courtesy/NMSA NMSA News:
SANTA FE ― New Mexico School for the Arts Visual Arts Department is mounting its second biennial New Media Festival to showcase digital artwork made in the school’s Media Arts classes over the last two years.
The Festival 6-8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 10 on the NMSA campus and is free and open to the public.
Students will take over the building, transforming it inside and out. They will exhibit such works as interactive new media installations, single channel video and sound art pieces, animations, video installations, Art-Gaming, Virtual Reality pieces, and generative art (an emerging technique where on-screen images are created by the use of computer algorithms that students create by writing code). Audience members will be able to enter virtual worlds, make digital drawings, interact with projections, and play student created video games.
The film short Baba Yaga also will screen at this years New Media Festival. In 2017, 10th grade visual art students spent nine weeks writing, scripting, storyboarding, shooting and editing this Russian classic folk tale. In addition to directing the film, students designed and constructed every character, set and prop that appears in the movie. The hand crafter puppets also will be on display at the festival.
Making up roughly 40 percent of the curriculum, Media arts is a vibrant part of student learning and exploration over the four year Visual Arts curriculum.
