Studio for Interrelated Media

The Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) overlaps and intersects with many other disciplines in order to encourage students to invent and develop experimental art forms, new directions, and unusual contexts. The backbone of the department is the weekly student-produced SIM Major Studio class, where all the majors meet and critique each other’s work. Additionally, each semester SIM offers a selection of courses in many media:

web art and digital distribution
video editing and production
interactive media and computer-controlled installations
dance techniques, choreography, and improvisation
performance art and spoken word
the interrelationship between art and science
theater production and stage lighting
sound performance, composition, recording, and editing
event planning and production

Most semesters, SIM majors produce a major multimedia event that highlights student work.

The SIM Department manages the Pozen Center for Interrelated Media (a 350-seat flexible performance space), a digital sound studio, a digital video editing suite, and a store-house of analog and digital equipment ranging from a theremin and a mirror ball to the latest in HD video hardware. SIM students also have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience curating, designing, and producing by annually re-inventing the Eventworks experimental arts festival and managing SIM’s Godine Family Gallery.

In recent semesters, the SIM visiting artist program has hosted DJ Spooky, Cristobal Lehyt, Marguerite Kahrl, Jennie C. Jones, Kori Newkirk, My Barbarian, and Gail Wight.

Studio For Interrelated Media Faculty

Elaine Buckholtz, Associate Professor
BFA, Ohio State University
MFA, Stanford University

Dawn Kramer, Professor
BA, Sarah Lawrence College

Denise Marika, Associate Professor
BA, Pomona College
MFA, University of California Los Angeles

Dana Moser, Professor
BFA, Central State University
MFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Nita Sturiale, Professor
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
EdM, Harvard Graduate School of Education
MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts

Programs