Creative Technologies and Design
Program Area Overview
Creative Technologies and Design is for students who have an interest in art, design, technology, culture, and interdisciplinary study. Explore digital culture while working in 3D animation, interactive media and installations, visual communication and graphic design, physical computing, creative computation, virtual and augmented reality, sound art, digital storytelling, computer gaming, and sound technologies.
Creative Technologies and Design degrees can include courses from all programs in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance, the Department of Computer Science, and the Faculty of Engineering, with opportunities to draw on courses from the Faculties of Arts, Education, and more.
The Creative Technologies and Design programs are unique in Saskatchewan and across the prairie provinces.
Come Play With Us!
In Creative Technologies and Design we encourage collaboration, experimentation, play, and thinking outside the box. In the first two years students focus on developing specialized skills across a range of technologies used in industry, while gaining hands-on experience through creative assignments and collaboration. Our small studio courses in years three and four focus on project-based exploration and professionalization. Our students develop skills as designers, artists, scientists, developers, theorists, entrepreneurs, and practice-based scholars, as they learn to think about creative technologies and design in new and critical ways.
Programs and Instructors
I grew to appreciate the power of collaboration because the environment involves a lot of peer feedback and critique sessions. It places us students as valuable voices along with the instructor.
Why Study Creative Technologies and Design?
Creative Technologies and Design encourages studies and research outside of and across traditional areas of study, bringing together artists, designers, scientists, and cultural theorists to converge and explore new approaches to art-making and creative problem-solving that re-imagine the impact and power of technology within the fine arts including visual and media arts, music, film, and theatre, and the creative industries.
I have been drawing and painting since I was young but I never imagined myself taking classes in engineering or computer science. I was very surprised when I took a computer science class and learned to program wearable technologies. It turned out to be one of my favourite classes.
Creative Possibility and Innovation
Our courses also supplement traditional study in Fine Arts. For example, imagine:
- How an artist can make their art interactive and accessible to more audiences with Augmented Reality
- How real-time interactivity through the incorporation of custom electronics enriches the process of making art installations
- How the development and programming of topic-sensitive mobile apps augments a course in performance theatre
- How a course working with a tablet as an instrument broadens traditional music training by including new media
- How a course in expanded cinema enhances approaches to animation
- How 3D modeling, laser cutting and rapid prototyping facilitates new avenues in sculpture
In Creative Technologies and Design, the possibilities are limitless.
Creative Technologies teaches a common language between the artistic and the technological. In my experience, being multi-disciplinary makes you incredibly valuable in many different professional fields and you stand out.