“The future always takes longer to get here than you expect, but when it finally arrives, things are usually profoundly different than you could have ever imagined.” – heard at a Ted Conference circa 1995 The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas has become a place where one can get a pretty good idea how things are changing
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MTSU photography Professor Emeritus Harold L. Baldwin, whose dedication to his craft — and art — helped him guide and encourage the vision of thousands of students and assemble a million-dollar-plus photographic collection during a 32-year college teaching career, has died at age 93. The Murfreesboro resident, who joined the MTSU faculty in 1959 from the Colorado public school system to teach
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MTSU’s Department of Media Arts is one of the few university programs in the world to teach design and technology for large-scale video installations. MTSU’s proximity to the concert touring industry based in Nashville has given the school a unique geographic advantage to develop relationships with the industry and its employers. As a result, MTSU has become a leader in
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The Media Arts Department is excited to announce the launch of Aerial Videography and Aerial Cinematography courses starting with Aerial Videography in Spring 2019. Currently there is nothing similar to these offerings at any other university in the Southeast. The courses will be taught in collaboration with MTSU’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) program and are open to a limited number of Video and Film Production
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Students from Middle Tennessee State University’s College of Media and Entertainment went behind-the-scenes at the 52nd Country Music Association Awards earlier this month to learn from the media professionals staging one of the industry’s biggest award telecasts. Robert Gordon, an assistant professor of television production in the Department of Media Arts, said 11 students served as talent production assistants during
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On October 19th, Media Arts alumnus Nic Dugger was honored with an Distinguished Alumni Award by the MTSU Alumni Association. This is the highest honor bestowed by the association. During his acceptance speech, Dugger asked the College of Media and Entertainment Dean, Ken Paulson, to come up to the podium – where he then handed him a gift of $10,000
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This past May, Animation Professor Kevin McNulty took his EMC 4900 class to Guiyang, China for the 2018 Wonderful World exhibition. At this annual event, students from around the world come together to share short films related to global causes. Leading up to this experience, the animation students spent their spring semester coming up with the idea for their film and
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Last weekend MTSU’s Animation students took part in the annual 24 Hours Animation Contest for a seventh year. This competition requires the creation of a 30 second animated film within 24 hours. The theme that the video must follow isn’t revealed until the very beginning of the event, to prevent anyone from planning ahead. This year’s theme was empathy. Contestants were asked
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Back in November 2016, the MTSU Women in Film group created a documentary to submit into a women’s film challenge. The film didn’t win any awards and the group felt disappointed in their work. But their faculty guide, Video Production Professor Allie Sultan, encouraged them to continue editing the film until they were happy with it. Fast forward to 2018,
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ACM SIGGRAPH had its annual convention this summer, and MTSU Animation students were able to attend for a sixth year. ACM is the the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. Within the organization are SIGS (Special Interest Groups), such as SIGGRAPH, which specializes in computer graphics and interactive techniques. MTSU is very well known in the ACM SIGGRAPH community. The school has
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From a distance, they look like paintings – but taking a closer look at the current exhibit in the Baldwin Photographic Gallery reveals that these images are much more. The exhibit is by Richard Tuschman, an artist and photographer from New York currently living in Poland. His work has been showcased in galleries all over the world and featured in
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MTSU’s Media Arts and Theater departments have joined forces to present a video-embellished production of the Broadway musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The two departments have been planning this production since December 2016 and will showcase their efforts Thursday, April 5 through 8 with live performances of the play. This interdisciplinary collaboration taps the talents and efforts of
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MT10 is producing seven new shows per week this semester. All seven shows are conceived and produced by MTSU students. This semester’s shows include: The Rise is a morning news show in the spirit of Good Morning America. The show features live musical performances in the studio, interviews with local citizens, and current event in the community – all delivered
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Former Media Arts graduate student Corinne Wolowicz is working with DWP live to create 3D projection mapping. Wolowicz will be using the skills she learned from Middle Tennessee State University to help the company DWP Live. DWP Live is a visual production company, that produces incredible entertainment through projection mapping, live events, laser scanning, and event space. Wolowicz is working
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For the past six years, MTSU’s Animation teams have participated in the 24-Hours Animation Contest, placing multiple times and earning honorable mentions along the way. This year seven teams from MTSU competed against other top animation schools in the 15th annual 24-Hours Animation Contest. Team ‘We Were Framed’, comprised of Alexandria “Zan” Dainwood, Josh Leedham, Josie Dowd, Andrew Demel, and Rachel
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This summer brought massive changes to the Media Arts Department’s facilities. Not only did the Animation Lab get a complete revamp, MTSU soft-launched a Media Arts Lab that is specifically designed to encourage students and faculty to create media together. Interactive Media Professor, Stephanie Dean, has been at the forefront of what she calls her “passion project”, burning both ends
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