Author: Amy Youngs

Art & Tech Student exhibition, Target Avoidance

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Join us April 21, 4:30 – 6:30pm in Hopkins Hall for the Spring 2025 Art & Tech Student exhibition, Target Avoidance.

Hopkins Hall First Floor Hallway Galleries, Lobby, Rooms 146, 156, 160, and 162.

You are invited to visit, view, and in some cases – interact with – the artwork that our students have been making this semester in this exhibition of Art & Technology artwork at the Department of Art Open House. The exhibition on the first floor features student work from courses in Digital Imaging, 3D modeling, Animation, Internet Art, Robotics, Virtual Reality,  and Eco Art. The rest of the building, from the basement to the fourth floor, will feature work from other courses in the Department of Art.

#1 in Ohio for animation

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Ohio State University continues to be ranked #1 for animation among schools in Ohio!

For public animation schools in the United States, we also held our position as #3.

Animation Career Review has been doing these rankings since 2012 using criteria  described here.

In response to the ongoing interest in animation among students studying outside the Department of Art, we have  helped develop an interdisciplinary Animation Minor which includes many of our Art & Technology courses, as well as course options from the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD), the Department of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts, the Department of Design, and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Digital Currents – Art & Tech Exhibition

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You are invited! The show is this Wednesday, December 4th, from 5 – 7pm throughout the first floor of  Hopkins Hall.

See the art projects from the Digital Imaging, Internet Art, 3D Modeling, Animation, New Media Art, Studio Practice, and Interactive Moving Image courses. These will be display on the first floor of Hopkins Hall as part of the Undergraduate Open House and Graduate Open Studios, which span the entire building, plus the Sherman Art Studios. More info on the overall open house.

MFA Applications Open

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We are currently accepting applicant for the incoming class of Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) students. The Art & Technology Area typically accepts 2 graduate students each year. Our students are part of the larger group of MFA students pursuing a variety of specializations in the Department of Art. Every student in our department is fully-funded, with tuition paid as well as a stipend for 20 hours of work as a Graduate Associate. Some receive additional fellowships. See more art by our graduate students, and visit our MFA Exhibition catalog from last year to see all graduating MFA in the Department of Art.

Visiting Artists

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From left to right: Jennier Rhee, photo: Daniel Robin; Katherine Behar.

Learn about Behar’s recent exhibition Ack! Knowledge! Work!, which explores labor and digital technology in a contemporary context. The conversation with Behar and Rhee will also examine how these topics come together in performance art, AI, robotics, and literature.

An audience Q&A follows the conversation.

This dialogue is part of the Arts, Technology and Social Change series, a micro-residency program sponsored by Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme.

More about the Arts, Technology and Social Change series

The Arts, Technology and Social Change series is an initiative conceived by Ohio State’s Department of History of Art, Department of Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Translational Data Analytics Institute. The residency program is a cross-department platform that involves public engagement on campus and around Columbus to explore questions on technology and social change in our contemporary moment.

Free for all audiences, register for tickets online here

Earth Day art shows

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The Art & Technology courses will showcase their Spring semester final projects in two art shows on Earth Day, April 22, 2024.

The first is in Hopkins Hall, from 5pm – 7pm. The art projects from Digital Imaging, Internet Art, 3D Modeling, Animation, New Media Art and Studio Practice will be on display on the first floor of Hopkins Hall as part of the Undergraduate Open House.

Then, from 8pm – 10pm, the students in the Art & Science course will share their work in a larger exhibition at the OSU Biological Sciences Greenhouse, located on top of a parking garage at 332 W. 12th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43210. Directions.