media arts
Screen-based creative disciplines
Media arts refers to creative works produced using electronic, digital, or broadcast technologies—including video, animation, sound design, interactive installations, and computer-generated imagery.
The term encompasses both the artistic disciplines and the academic programs that teach them: She's majoring in media arts.
Unlike traditional fine arts, media arts typically involve technological mediation between artist and audience.
- animationTechnique creating movement illusion
- digital paintingArtwork made using software
- cinematographyMotion picture visual craft
- visual effectsDigitally created film imagery
- game designCrafting interactive entertainment systems
graphic design · projection mapping · motion graphics · live visuals · 3D modeling · sound design · screen culture · audio mixing · augmented reality · documentary filmmaking · color grading · interactive storytelling · video editing · music composition · web design · digital storytelling · video · interactive
- artRenaissance, painters, masterpieces, paint, Baroque
- artscreativity, expression, songs, painting, sculpting
- art educationdrawing lessons, painting lessons, painting classes, drawing class, RISD
- visual culturevisual communication, visual literacy, visual language, visual perception, visual narrative
- art schoolpainting studios, studio, BFA, gallery, MFA
- cinemafilm, films, film studios, movies, movie
media artstraditional arts
Inherited cultural creative practices
sculpture · oil painting · traditional art · cave painting · fine arts
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