The Bachelor of Media Arts degree is innovative, industry aligned and will provide you with strong foundations in contemporary creative media production including animation, moving image, sound, interactive media and emerging media technologies. The Bachelor of Media Arts is a ground-breaking degree designed to meet industry demand for creative practitioners and content developers who possess multiple skills and breadth of knowledge across a range of key areas within contemporary creative media. Working in a studio-based learning environment, you will gain hands on skills complemented by theoretical studies that encourage critical thinking, contextual awareness and innovation. You will be taught by accomplished, industry-active media artists, producers and theorists and have connections with Australia’s leading research labs in creative robotics, interactive and immersive cinema and 3D Visualisation. Immersed in an innovative, supportive and collaborative learning environment, you will create your projects in workshops, labs and studios that are among the world’s best equipped. Studio Specialisations Throughout the Bachelor of Media Arts, you will utilise world-class facilities, workshops and equipment to make and exhibit your media artworks. The degree features five disciplinary areas, from which you will choose at least two. Animation In the animation studio, you will develop skills and knowledge in contemporary animation processes, techniques and concepts. By exploring a range of 3D and traditional animation processes as well as conceptual animation and digital compositing, you will acquire techniques and approaches applicable in a wide variety of media arts practices. Visual Effects (Digital Media) In the visual effects studio, you will explore the contemporary potentials of animated media. From visual effects to motion capture and encoded media, you will be challenged and engage with new possibilities for digital media practice in a critically-engaged studio context. Sound In the sound studio, you will create media artworks utilising sound-based techniques and processes. Working in studio and acoustic environments, you will develop skills and knowledge to help you create sound-based media art projects for the gallery, as well as virtual and public spaces. Moving Image In the moving image studio, you will explore contemporary approaches to video art, short film, audio-visual composition and installation. You will develop understandings and skills in a variety of creative contexts for moving image practice including gallery, screen, virtual and public spaces. Interactive Media In the interactive media studio, you will create dynamic and responsive environments and objects in the context of contemporary media arts practice. By exploring an array of interactive and immersive technologies, you will develop innovative approaches to creating mediated and sensorial experiences for a variety of contexts and spaces. In addition, you will have the opportunity to broaden your skills and knowledge by selecting from a wide range of elective courses from across our art, design and media programs.