Art & Technology / Sound Practices
Art & Technology / Sound Practices
Art & Technology / Sound Practices (AT/SP) is a place to explore artistic production with technology, sound, or their unlimited hybrid forms through focused study and interdisciplinary exploration. It integrates two visionary SAIC departments: the Department of Art & Technology Studies and the Sound Department, each with more than 50 years of radical artistic and pedagogic exploration.
AT/SP offers a large, diverse, and ever-changing range of courses designed to provide students with an immersive, thorough, and critically engaged course of study from a global perspective. Its curriculum integrates skills-based learning with conceptual investigation and critical interrogation to prepare students to be creative and productive cultural citizens.
Undergraduate Admission Deadline: January 1
Submit your application and portfolio by January 1 for priority fall 2025 merit scholarship consideration.
Graduate Programs Application Deadline: January 10
Apply to SAIC's Graduate and Post-Bacc programs by January 10 for fall 2025 admission.
File Your FAFSA
In order to be eligible for need-based aid such as SAIC, state and federal grants, loans and work study you need to file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) at fafsa.gov.
Curriculum
Each semester, AT/SP offers more than 35 courses and seminars open to undergraduate and graduate students, providing in-depth instruction on a wide range of technologies, approaches, concepts, and production strategies. A small sample of recent course offerings includes Interactive Art and Creative Coding, Analog Synthesis, BioArt Studio, Programming Sound with MAX/MSP, Blockchain - The New Internet, Suspended Language, Wearables and Soft Computing, Acoustic Ecology and Phonography, Robotics, Sound Now - Improvisation, Experimental Game Lab, Noise, Virtual Sound, Digital Light Projections, and Olfactory Art.
Faculty
The AT/SP faculty bring a depth of knowledge and a commitment to respectful and inclusive learning to their teaching. They create learning environments that combine rigorous research, playful experimentation, open dialogue, collaborative engagement, and individual mentoring. The faculty come from a rich and diverse range of backgrounds and intellectual positions, and they draw on their extensive experience with many technologies, concepts, histories, and theories to build meaningful courses for their students.
Facilities & Resources
The Department of Art & Technology / Sound Practices gives students access to cutting-edge labs and studios housing a wide range of technologies and recording equipment, such as virtual reality and augmented reality labs, vintage and contemporary analog synthesizers and signal processors, 3D printers and desktop milling machines, advanced software and user interfaces, and more.
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Associate Professor and Department Chair
Judd Morrissey jmorrissey@saic.edu
Assistant Professor and Art & Technology Graduate Coordinator
Kristin McWharter kmcwharter@saic.edu
Associate Professor and Sound Graduate Coordinator
Lou Mallozzi lmallozzi@saic.edu
Senior Administrative Director
Jeff Armstrong jarmstrong@saic.edu
Administrative Director
Alison Konicek akonic@saic.edu
Administrative Assistant
Logan Hoffman-Smith lhoffm1@artic.edu
Assistant Director of Art & Technology Facilities
Anna Yu ayu@saic.edu
Sound Facilities Manager
Robb Drinkwater rdrink@saic.edu