Emerging Media Arts (EMAR)

Description: A weekly forum for emerging media arts majors to interact with guest artists, participate in lectures and engage with a broad range of emerging media-related topics.

Description: Introduction to storytelling across multiple media platforms. Development of storytelling craft and technique. Critical analysis of story structure for media production.

Description: Continuation of concepts presented in Story Lab I. Introduction to the writing methods that are fundamental to media arts creation.

Description: Experiential-based exploration of live performance, game creation and group collaboration as a model for project development and iterative practices.

Description: The elements, principles and practices of design as a storytelling language.

Description: Expansion of design concepts presented in Visual Expression I. Project-based exploration of digital, live-action, and virtual storytelling.

Description: Development of computation and computer science skills and knowledge in context of emerging media arts.

Description: Continuation of topics and projects developed in Computation and Media Studio I.

Description: Immersive exploration into how the city influences story and how story shapes perceptions of place. Explore, discover, and draw inspiration from faces and food, street corners and subways. Draw upon these sources of inspiration to create city inspired projects told through film, design, and digital technology. Affiliated with UNL Global Experiences.

Description: A critical history of communication and media from oral storytelling to modern digital media.

Description: Introduction to how humans and non-humans inform systems design for both physical and digital worlds. Principles, foundations, and ethics of meaningful interaction design.

Description: Introduction to fundamentals common to most game engines. Computer-based exercises and project-based assignments to develop skills applicable to games, visualizations, simulations, and interactive media.

Description: Introduction to digital fabrication techniques and physical computing hardware through emerging media arts topics.

Description: Introduction to the tools and aesthetics of the moving image. Fundamentals of digital cinema cameras, lenses, lighting and editing. Production of experimental and non-sync films.

Description: Introduction to sound and audio as a design element in traditional and emerging media art projects.

Description: Advanced techniques and projects in the production of narrative cinema.

Description: Manipulate pixel-based imagery to properly create, imagine, combine, alter, and repair digital images.

Description: Compositing, Rotoscoping, and 3D simulations.

Description: Basics of 3D modeling and textures.

Description: Introduction to animating 3D assets and characters.

Description: Creating moving text and images using compositing and animation software.

Description: Approaches and techniques to writing the short screenplay including: correct format, character development, story structure, conflict and revision. Writing assignments including developmental writing exercises and complete short scripts, with faculty and peer critique.

Description: Examination of the business and intellectual property practices utilized in the contemporary entertainment, arts, and media industries. Development of student portfolio and personal marketing as preparation to enter these industries.

Description: First semester of a year-long, faculty guided exploration of a topic or theme via creation of wide-ranging emerging media projects.

Description: Second semester of a year-long, faculty guided exploration of a topic or theme via creation of wide-ranging emerging media projects.

Description: Team-based creation, critique, and iteration of holistic fictional worlds. Exploration of the methodologies for investigation, ideation and development of virtual worlds drawn from a variety of inspirational sources including design, fiction, speculative design and ethnography. Creation of final projects that could be deployed as a media franchise or metaverse.

Description: Exercise artistic processes within a game engine and while using real-time rendering. Focuses on the application of performance using motion capture and body data as the primary input for motion-based programming such as avatar control, sound, lighting, and visual effects as body driven outputs.

Description: Introduction to smart environments across multiple scales. Create and interact with functional smart environment systems.

Description: Application of emerging media tools and techniques to produce, analyze, and communicate meaningfully with data.

Description: Application of Machine Learning tools and techniques to create computationally generated art.

Description: Advanced editing techniques and studio software.

Description: Advanced application of lighting concepts, technology, and techniques.

Description: Editorial and audio design processes, tools and techniques for creating and editing cinema dialog, music, sound effects and environments. Recording and editing of audio projects using audio facilities, and digital audio workstations. Industry standard techniques for dialog editorial, automated dialog replacement sound effects libraries and recording. Professional practices and exploration of the post-audio team for film and television.

Description: Develop proficiency in technical skills, creative processes, and critical listening within the realms of sound design, and synthesis.

Description: Expansion on concepts established in EMAR 283. Advanced rigging and animating of 3D assets.

Description: Introduction to the creative practice of Virtual Production (VP). Learn to integrate game engines, motion tracking, and physical cinema. Formulate, structure, and present new media in modalities of choice. Gain experience with identifying technologies appropriate to a project and learning the necessary skills to put those technologies into use.

Description: Varied topics in Emerging Media Arts.

Description: Independent work in emerging media arts.

Description: Create an Emerging Media Arts project applying advanced principles of history, theory, design, and production.

Description: Creating VR experiences using 3D software and game engines.

Description: Explores how emerging media arts can expand forms of performance, play, sound, movement, and theatrical relationships in new ways. Considers site, context, location, situation, and audience as central components of the experience design process.

Description: Integrate multiple computational tools to create creative machines. Learn key ideas from systems art, cybernetics, and computational creativity, and apply these to the development of self-guided projects. Demonstrate generative, interactive, and computational techniques at an advanced undergraduate level.

Description: Develop the skills required to successfully direct a film. Critically analyze a script; shape an actor's performance and balance the technical demands of each scene.

Description: The role and responsibilities of the producer and production manager throughout the film production process. The budgeting, organizational, managerial, and supervisory skills required by a creative film producer from financing to distribution.

Description: Build on the processes, tools, and techniques in EMAR 361 Cinema Sound: Edit; prepare and mix audio tracks for motion pictures.

Description: Exploration and application of the technical and conceptual fundamentals of interactivity as applied to ambisonic and surround audio. Experimentation with the techniques, systems and computational processes used to generate immersive sound through computation and interactive design.

Description: Supervised planning and production of thesis projects in emerging media arts.

Description: Structured internships with professional companies, organizations or individuals on or off campus.

Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.