IMDA Welcome Event
Micro research-talks and mixer welcoming new IMDA Grads
Please join the Visual Arts Department in welcoming our new Intermedia and Digital Arts (IMDA) Graduate Students to UMBC. On Thursday, October 19th from 12:00-1:30 pm, we will host a fun and engaging round of micro-talks at the CADVC, with a mixer afterwards. Our new grads will give short presentations about their research and art practice. Stop by to say hello and meet the IMDA class of 2026! Refreshments will be provided!
Intermedia and Digital Arts Masters of Fine Art Welcome Event
October 19th, 2023, 12-1:30pm, CADVC
Bao Nguyen (they/them) is an experimental vocalist and performance artist born in Vietnam and based in Baltimore. Through performance, sound, video and interactive media, Bao’s practice examines oral traditions to reconsider the history of Vietnamese nation-building and devise new connections between ourselves and the landscape.
Lynn Nguyen’s artwork combines technology and sculpture to create interactive and kinetic artworks. Nguyen’s sculptures are inspired by the natural beauty of wood and draw on her background in the sciences to invoke the feeling of living things as they move.
Nia Hampton is a cultural worker from West Baltimore who works across visual arts, journalism and cultural organizing. Nia is the founder of the Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest and uses multimodal creative methods and tools to tell the stories of those who are misrepresented in the media with empathy and care.
Taylor Goad is a designer and animator currently working with After Effects and Illustrator. As an IMDA MFA student, Taylor will explore multimedia processes including screen printing, 3D printing and/or physical animation projects like Automata Boxes or Zoetropes.
The Intermedia and Digital Art (IMDA) MFA program provides participants with access to eminent faculty, visiting artists, critics, and curators, studio space and state-of-the-art facilities.
Recent graduate students have pursued issues of food justice, surveillance, place, language, economics, and technology, resulting in projects that use a range of traditional gallery-based art media as well as experimental modalities, like street interventions, distributed networks, physical computing, games, and community-based projects. Financial support, including tuition remission and stipends, is available.
IMDA is committed to making its events accessible to everyone. Please send your request for specific accommodations to imda@umbc.edu.