Fall 2024 UConn M.F.A. in Digital Media Design Open Studio   The UConn Digital Media & Design (DMD) Department is excited to announce the semiannual M.F.A Open Studio will be held on Friday, December 6th, 2024 from 3:30 – 6:30 PM in the first floor of Bishop Center at UConn’s Storrs campus.  This event will be […]

Resurgence:: 2024 UConn B.F.A. in Digital Media Design Senior Exhibition    The UConn Digital Media & Design (DMD) Department is excited to announce the 2024 DMD BFA Senior Exhibition, Resurgence. The in-person exhibition is open from April 6 to April 24, 2024 in the Jorgensen Gallery at UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, with […]

July 6, 2023 | Kimberly Phillips ‘My whole life I secretly wanted to make video games but was scared. I didn’t think it was something that I was allowed to do because it seemed too fun’ Josh Hirshfield was that kid in middle school who’d spend all weekend playing video games. “I was playing on […]

May 18, 2023 | Combined Reports The inaugural film festival aims to connect filmmakers, human rights advocates, and community groups with the common goal of sustained, transformational impact Northeast Human Rights Film Festival organizers hope the impact of this week’s three-day festival at UConn extends beyond the theater experience and calls audiences to take action. An […]

April 27, 2023 | Kimberly Phillips On-campus exhibitions showcase creativity and talent of graduating students Years beyond their middle and high school careers – in one case by nearly two decades – and they’re still listening to their teachers. Kelsey Tynik ’12 (SFA), ’23 MFA says she often draws on skills gained from her middle […]

Limitless: 2023 UConn Digital Media & Design B.F.A. Senior Exhibition    The UConn Digital Media & Design (DMD) Department is excited to announce the 2023 DMD BFA Senior Exhibition, Limitless. The in-person exhibition is open from April 1 to April 28, 2023 in the Jorgensen Gallery at UConn’s Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, with […]

March 1, 2023 | Jonathan Kopeliovich   In spring 2022, UConn’s department of Digital Media & Design hosted the 2022 BFA Senior Exhibition: Resilience, in the Jorgensen Gallery of the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, which featured the work of 25 senior UConn DMD Bachelor of Fine Arts students from the Storrs and Stamford […]

January 23, 2023 | Kimberly Phillips UConn’s first integrative studies student bridges passion for art, engineering in research and life Arpita Kurdekar’s story doesn’t start at the point she came to the United States, or when she got her dream job as an engineer, or when she pivoted to graduate studies at UConn. It doesn’t even begin […]

January 5, 2023 | Jaclyn Severance ‘Creating media that unites, that’s something that I really want to do with my films’ Guerra, with Connecticut Congressman Jim Himes, and the production team for Grit & Grace (Contributed Photo) Today, you can order Alicia Villanueva’s handmade tamales from William Sonoma. If you’re in the San Francisco area, […]

January 3, 2023 | Kimberly Phillips ‘Connecticut is the sports entertainment capital of the world’ While fans of UConn Athletics fill stadiums to watch tackles, dunks, and dangles, they may not realize part of creating a fevered experience relies on those sidelined with a camera in hand to post instantly on social media and record sensational moments. […]

December 6, 2022 | Jaclyn Severance Oscar Guerra’s first Frontline documentary was judged the Best News Story in a Newsmagazine at the 2021 Emmy awards   In 2018, searing stories and images captured at the southern border of the U.S. burned into the conscience of an instantly outraged American public, a result of the zero-tolerance […]

December 5, 2022 | Joseph DeVito From documentary film to motion design boards, exhibition shows off diversity of faculty expertise A bassist appearing to play in a landfill and a breakfast conversation between three Turkish couples are just two of the sights and sounds on display at the 2022 Digital Media & Design (DMD) Faculty […]

November 8, 2022 | Kimberly Phillips Eyes on a critical slate of state, national contests   Jonathan Portanova ’23 (CLAS) voted for the first time in 2014, in the primary race between Connecticut’s Tom Foley and John McKinney for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Seven years later, he put his own name on the ballot as […]

November 1, 2022 | UConn Athletics A first-of-its-kind in college athletics to combine live and original content, UConn+ will provide fans 24/7 access to featured content, live events and institutional content in collaboration with LEARFIELD Studios and SIDEARM Sports UConn is fully entering the cord-cutting era of live and on-demand digital video. Coming later this […]

August 10, 2022 | Anna Zarra Aldrich ’20 (CLAS), Office of the Vice President for Research An interdisciplinary group of UConn researchers is leading an effort to empower high school students to become “Eco-Digital” storytellers in their communities. The science behind protecting the environment is only one piece of addressing the climate crisis; people need […]

June 22, 2022 | Shawn Kornegay – Neag School of Education |‘After a year of careful planning, the Neag School of Education’s Two Summers Educational Technology program and the UConn School of Fine Art’s Digital Media and Design (DMD) program co-hosted the inaugural Frontiers in Playful Learning conference from June 1 – 3, 2022.’| After a […]

April 27, 2022 | Kimberly Phillips   From the everyday to the celestial, students find inspiration for art in many sources When Ashante Kindle ’22 MFA was 10 years old she says she wanted to be either a teacher or fashion designer, maybe a dancer or singer. One could argue though, her childhood spent in […]

Resilience: 2022 UConn Digital Media & Design B.F.A. Senior Exhibition    STORRS, CT – The UConn Digital Media & Design Department is excited to announce the 2022 DMD BFA Senior Exhibition, Resilience. After two years of virtual exhibitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are thrilled to hold an in-person exhibition which is open from […]