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Digital Imaging Initiative: A Project
for Studio Art Department Curricular Expansion and Enhancement Paul Glabicki and Bovey Lee are directors of the Digital Imaging Initiative: A Project for Studio Art Department Curricular Expansion and Enhancement. Glabicki has been a professor with the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Studio Arts for 25 years. Lee, who has been with the department since Fall 2000, brings to the University expertise and an established reputation in the new field of interactive media. With the creation of their digital studio in 1998, the studio arts faculty and students began a process of discovery, experimentation, and discourse with the new medium of digital art. This grant will allow the process to be continued by further enhancing the digital imaging and graphic design curricula. These new tools and techniques will also affect the quality and types of projects created for other studio arts courses. The computer mouse becomes the
multimedia artist’s quintessential design tool in the field of digital
imaging. However, other tools, ranging from the scanner to the printer,
affect the artist’s finished product. “Interactive” art is a new paradigm
for most people, as it blends traditional visual art with technology.
Bovey stresses that “choices are important” because interactive media is a
form of two-way communication. The career possibilities are growing and
compelling as the cross-cultural Web reaches huge numbers of people.
Glabicki’s goal is to provide students with the skills and equipment to
become competent, two-dimensional media artists. Providing these
opportunities has prompted unprecedented changes in instructional
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