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Cyberarts Studio
The first Cyberarts facility at NUS (and in South
East Asia), the CCRI Cyberarts Studio provides a truly multi-disciplinary
setting where scientists, artists, academics and students come together
to create and collaborate. The idea was first initiated by Dean
of Scholars Programme, Shaw Professor of English and Digital Culture,
George Paul Landow, to build an innovative teaching facility that
houses not only classes, but also serves as a space that promotes
creativity, innovation and freedom of expression.
The main feature of the studio is the space itself
and how students feel inside it. A new concept for innovative learning,
latest technology and equipment in themselves are not the center
of the learning process, but a subtle and carefully chosen component
that brings together a team of creators where aesthetics of technology
promotes students' minds to think differently about cutting-edge
research, and inspires creations, new ideas and interdisciplinary
collaborations. As such, the studio serves as an institutional support
for multi-disciplinary research for all. That said, the studio does
include some of the best equipment available, including 22 Mactintosh
G4 computers with 17" flat screen monitors, 4 of which are
dedicated for digital video editing with Final Cut Pro, and 10 are
hooked up with Logic Audio Platinum and Yamaha PSR340 or PSR350
synthesizers for music and sound manipulation. All of the computers
are loaded with standard digital art programs such as Photoshop,
Freehand, Dreamweaver, Storyspace, BBEdit, Flash, and LightWave
for 3D modeling.
In an effort to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration,
two areas of study within the University Scholars Programme fully
utilize the studio for teaching modules such as Cyberart,
New
Media Art, Practices
of MIDI Music, and Music
and Technology in the Visual and Musical Arts division, and
Representing
the Interface and Telling
Stories in Cyberspace in Literature. The Cyberarts Studio thus
enables students from almost all faculties at NUS to create multi-disciplinary
works of international standards.
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