Pratt Institute 普瑞特艺术学院

专业介绍：
Digital Arts in School of Art 艺术学院下面的数字艺术专业
Students in the 60-credit-hour Graduate Digital Arts program at Pratt are immediately engaged in the creation of artwork utilizing digital technologies. These artists come together to study interactive arts, digital animation and motion arts, and digital imaging. Within the context of new media, students use critical thinking, creative problem solving, technical facility, and conceptual skills to develop a sophisticated body of work.

普瑞特艺术学院数字艺术专业要求60个学分，致力于利用数字技术进行的艺术创作，包括人机交互艺术，数字动画和数字成像。由于新媒体的应用，学生们通过批判性思维，创造性的问题解决方式，技术设备以及概念技能来创作复杂的艺术作品。

该专业主要细分为以下三个小方向：

M.F.A. Digital Animation and Motion Arts 数字动画
Students create evocative narrative and non-narrative films using 2-D and 3-D digital animation techniques, live action and motion graphics. Recommended electives include history of animation, film criticism, traditional animation, character design, rigging, lighting and rendering, audio and video, compositing and special effects, and advanced digital animation techniques.
该专业学生通过2D和3D数字动画技术，人物表演和动态图像来创作出叙事和非叙事电影。建议选修课包括：动画史，电影评论，传统动画，人物塑造，装备，灯光和渲染，试听，创作和特效，高级数字动画技术。

Interactive Arts M.F.A. 人机交互艺术
Students use computer-human interaction to convey meaning in the form of physical installations, interactive objects and on-line artworks. This includes the combination of video, animation, text, audio, and imagery in an interactive environment. Recommended electives include courses in sculpture, history of new media, programming, interactive installation, on-line media, robotics, and electronic music and sound.
该方向学生通过人机交互的方式以物理设施，交互对象和在线艺术的形式来表达意义。这些包括在人机交互环境下视频，动画，文本，音频的整合。推荐选修课包括：雕塑，新媒体史，计算机编程，交互设备，在线媒体，机器人，电子音乐和声音。

Digital Imaging M.F.A. 数字成像
This area of study employs digital and traditional processes in the creation of large-format digital prints, installations, artist's books and other tactile media. Studies address critical issues and techniques in the development, printing and presentation of digitally based art. Recommended electives include critical history of photography, etching, silkscreen lithography, 3-D printing and digital photography.

这个专业方向采用数字和传统方式来创作大篇幅数字印刷品，设备，艺术书籍以及其他触觉媒体。该研究领域致力于解决在数字艺术的发展，印刷和展示过程中呈现出来的关键问题和技术开发。建议选修课包括：摄影批判史，蚀刻术，丝网印刷制版，3-D印刷和数字摄影。