Art and Computation
Recognizing digital technology’s growing influence on art and design practices—and the influence of artists and designers on the digital landscape—the Art and Computation BFA at RISD offers you a deep understanding of and ability to create within the technological structures of the 21st century.
As an Art and Computation major and student in Computation, Technology and Culture (CTC)—the program’s home department—you work with code, software and other technological interfaces as creative mediums in their own right, and learn to incorporate them into a wide range of art and design practices.
In the studio
For Art and Computation majors, studio activity takes many forms. Whether working on personal projects or cross-disciplinary collaborations, at any point you may decide to explore robotics, AI and generative art, gaming and immersive media, physical computing and more.
Student work
work by recent students in the CTC undergraduate concentration
Art and Computation majors think beyond digital technology as a set of tools removed from the moral, ethical, economic and political dimensions of everyday life—as more than something you simply use. Instead, you learn how to create technology that honors aesthetics, poetics and the breadth of human experience, past, present and future.
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