#media-and-technology

#media-and-technology

In September 1960, John Updike sat in the Fenway Park stands and watched Ted Williams take his final at-bat. He drove a fastball 440 feet over the right-centerfield wall, rounded the bases head down and disciplined, and ran straight into the dugout. The crowd begged him to come out, tip his cap, take their adulation. He didn't. The opposing pitcher waited on the mound, certain Williams would relent. Most players would have. Williams waved him off and never came back out.

The MFA in Media Arts at UCLA offers a rigorous environment for the sustained exploration of contemporary arts practice in the context of media and technology. Through technical and theoretical seminars, group critiques, and individual tutorials with faculty, each student questions conventional ideas about art, technology, and new media while developing a critical awareness about their own work. The program has been reimagined to take place over three years,