Welcome to the New Media Fine Arts section of the Saint Olaf website. Here you may find information about the courses we offer, our facilities, and links to an overwhelming number of vaults where we keep the work produced by our students every semester.
The courses we offer:
ART104 Foundation New Media: Principles of digital painting and image manipulation. Hybrid digital Art.
ART228 Animated Art: Stop Motion Animation and study of the moving image -digital and analog- in relationship with audio.
ART229 Video Art: Use and experimentation of the electronic moving image as supply for artistic production.
ART230 3D Animation: Computer 3D modelling and Real 3D animation (puppetry)
ART239 Video Art Production: Technical course focused on Editing and Narratology. OFFERED ONLY DURING INTERIM.
[ for a more comprehensive description please refer to the Academic Catalog by clicking here ]
Our Facilities:
Our labs are equipped with the most current Apple® computers and software available. Here is an abridged lis of the contents of each terminal:
Adobe CS5® Creative Suite
ToonBoom Studio 6.0
Final Cut Pro 10.0
Microsoft Office 2011
Inkscape 0.48.1
Cubic Connector 2.0.9
Cubic Converter 2.2.1
Animation-ish
Corel Painter 11
Second Life 2.8.3
Game Salad 0.9.71
Aperture 3.1.3
blender
Gimp
Poser 7.0.0.71
SPORE Creature Creator
The environment
SELECTED CLASSROOM PHOTOS
Contact Information
Guido E. Alvarez, Assistant Professor of New Media Arts
alvarezg@stolaf.edu
