Seattle, WA
The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) is an interdisciplinary degree-granting research center at the University of Washington, Seattle. The center was established in 2001. DXARTS offers a PhD iNew Media Art, along with a range of classes that are populated by undergraduate and graduate students from departments across the University. DXARTS fosters the invention of new forms of digital and experimental arts by synthesizing expanded studio research with pioneering advances in digital computing, information technologies, performance, science, and engineering.
The goal of doctoral education at DXARTS is to create opportunities for artists to discover and document new knowledge and expertise at the most advanced levels higher education can offer. While creating new art is at the center of all activities in the program, the DXARTS PhD is a research-oriented degree requiring a substantial commitment to graduate-level study and reflection. The PhD degree prepares artists to pursue original creative and technical research and pioneer lasting innovations on which future artists and scholars can build.