Course General Description

Contemporary visual culture is replete with digitally produced and manipulated imagery that challenge our notions of reality. Digital intervention and enhancement is key to envisioning impossible worlds and interactive virtual spaces. Commercial and artistic spaces today abound in several forms of such time-based media works. In feature films, animation, video, gaming, interactive installations, on television and smart phones, we come across works that challenge and extend our reality into newer digital environments everyday. Srishti offers the 4-year undergraduate course in Digital Media Arts at its main campus in Bangalore. It allows you to explore, create and extend these digital environments. We encourage explorations to start from an immersion in one’s social, personal, historical, cultural and contemporary situations. Whether it is movements that are drawn, models made to act, interaction of live-action and computer generated imagery (CGI) or the virtual worlds of gaming, this is a space to explore new frontiers of time-based media formed by the interaction of time, movement and space. Digital Media Arts offers courses in the three interrelated disciplines of Animation, Game Design and Development and Visual Effects.

School General Description

Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology (Srishti) is a design school established in 1996 by the Ujwal Trust in Bangalore, India. It offers design education in Digital Video Production, Film, Visual Communication, Experimental Media Arts, Design in Education, Textile Design, Animation and Visual Effects, Interaction Design, Product and Interface Design, Furniture and Spatial Design, Business Systems and Design and much more. Srishti has a number of centers and labs that offer practice- and research-based environments for students and faculty from a multitude of disciplines. These include (in alphabetical order): BHSI – Bangalore Human Sciences Initiative CEMA – Center for Experimental Media Arts CERTAD – Centre for Education, Research, Training and Development CPH – Centre for Public History GRIDs – Grassroots Innovation Design Studio Kabir Project[5] LEDLAB – Law+Environment+Design Laboratory Srishti Films Srishti Labs DesignEARTH Lab Natural Fibres Lab Pandimonium Lab SUI-Srishti Collaborative Blank Noise Srishti's culture encourages thinking, questioning and experimenting to harness the artistic and intellectual potential of each individual and place the institution at the leading edge of contemporary art and design discourse. A multi-disciplinary approach inculcates self-initiated learning and independent thinking and expands perceptual perspectives. Regular interaction with design studios, production and distribution centers, community projects, retail establishments and industry forms a vital bridge between Srishti and the world.