Online Courses

Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists

Digital Arts Minor

Artists in the age of digital media require new approaches to design and implementation using emerging technology. At California Institute of the Arts, we believe that every artist needs to be offered training on how to invent creative new possibilities for interaction with their performers, audiences and supporters, whether through the custom fabrication of technological objects and interfaces or web-based …

Resources

SCHOOLS / INSTITUTES NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program -- New York, NY CalArts Music Technology: Intelligence, Interaction and Design (MTIID) -- Valencia, CA NYU Steinhardt + ITP -- New York, NY Stanford Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) -- Palo Alto, CA UC Santa Barbara Media Arts and Technology -- Santa Barbara, CA UC Berkeley The Center for ...

Alumni

Example of career paths of a selected set of our Alumni 2019 | 2018OWEN VALLISBFA 2008 – Went on to Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He also worked as an Engineer for Nokia Research, Twitter, and MZ. Currently Senior Software Engineer for Machine Learning at Google owenvallis.com MATTHEW HETTICHBFA 2008 – Went …

CalArts Expo

Reflecting California Institute of the Arts’ experimental ethos, the CalArts Expo rolls out its latest projects integrating cutting-edge engineering and computer science with visual and performing arts. Highlighting new student and faculty projects made over this last academic year, the Expo exhibitions and performances run from early afternoon to late evening in the ROD Music Hall, MOD Theater, Main Gallery, ...

MFA

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BFA

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Facilities

The Machine Lab The Master's Room Digital Recording Studio Computer Music Studio Modular Synth Studio Electronics Lab Roy O. Disney Concert Hall The Wild Beast Concert Hall StudiosPerformance Spaces

Theses

MFA THESES Do you know you are not a human? Luisa Pinzon — 2023 Sensitive Dependence: An Exploration of the Unpredictable Naomi Mitchell — 2023 Generative AI Art Exploration and Image Generation Fine Tuning Techniques Hyeong Choi — 2023 The Business Plan for Opening a Music Studio in India Gauri Deshpande — 2023 Kinematic Beat extraction for Dance Synthesis Applications …