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The Digital and Emerging Art Practices (DEAP) program in the Art Department at MSU Denver introduces students to the evolving world of digital art by incorporating contemporary digital art techniques with their creative endeavors. It encourages an interdisciplinary approach, enabling you to combine various artistic mediums, technologies, and ideas, enriching your engagement within the digital arts. The program is committed to facilitating discussions about the rapidly changing digital and emerging art fields, equipping you to understand and contribute to these contemporary conversations.
DEAP Exhibition: worlds un/fold v.03
Open portals to explorations in digital and emerging art. Created by students in the DEAP (Digital and Emerging Arts Program) area of MSU Denver Art, these works un/fold speculative narratives, immersive environments, and experimental forms, tracing the prospects of creative practices.
[Exhibition is completely online]
Digital & Emerging
Art Practices
Beginning & Intermediate
ART-2631 & ART-3632
In these courses, you’ll explore digital tools and emerging technologies like VR, 360 video, 3D scanning, modeling, and interactive art to bring your creative ideas to life. You’ll work on personal projects incorporating storytelling and world-making through these digital techniques. Along the way, you’ll gain practical skills and explore the theories and creative processes behind using technology in art. These courses offer you the opportunity to experiment and integrate digital media into your creative practice.
Playa Bagdad/SpaceX:
Transboundary Sonic Violence
in a Colonial Void
Join us for a talk by Jerónimo Reyes-Retana!
Reyes-Retana will discuss research and installations on the intersection of technology, colonialism, and environmental impact.
“An impulse to cultivate compositional forces through long-term projects guides his practice into the fissures (dis)connecting governance regimes built upon technological superiority.“
Digital and Emerging Arts Practices (DEAP)
MSU Denver Department of Art
DEAP offers an educational setting that emphasizes access to digital art tools and practices, making contemporary techniques and theories accessible to you.
Our flexible curriculum allows you to customize your academic path to align with your interests and career objectives while grounding you in critical theory and practice. This approach encourages you to expand the dialogue around digital arts, prepared with the knowledge and skills necessary to become a creative artist and thinker in the digital art world.
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DEAP Community Collaboration
This year, the MSU Denver Art DEAP program is among the sponsors of the seventh annual Mimesis Documentary Festival, supporting the festival’s commitment to experimental, interdisciplinary, and emerging approaches to documentary and media arts.
Artist-focused and community-oriented, the seventh annual Mimesis Documentary Festival will be held August 11-16, 2026, in Boulder, Colorado. Mimesis is an immersive theatrical and virtual slate of events featuring artists, producers, and scholars from around the world.
Presented in collaboration with Boulder’s Dairy Arts Center and Seidel City, the festival brings together six days of screenings, workshops, and conversations with some of the most dynamic voices in documentary media.
DEAP Student Work
worlds un/fold are exhibitions of digital artworks created by DEAP students. The shows are hosted on New Art City and run online in perpetuity.
Exhibition Statement:
worlds un/fold_v.01 and worlds un/fold_v.02 open portals to explorations in digital and emerging art. Created by DEAP students at MSU Denver Art Department, these works un/fold speculative narratives, immersive environments, and experimental forms, tracing the prospects of creative practices.
View Exhibitions Online:
worlds un/fold_v.01Fall 2024 Exhibition Link: https://newart.city/show/wuf-v1
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worlds un/fold_v.02Spring 2025 Exhibition Link: https://newart.city/show/wuf-v02
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DEAP Facilities
The DEAP lab facilities encourage experimentation, collaboration, and community building, offering a dynamic environment for students to explore digital media, multimedia installation, and interactive art. This integration serves DEAP’s mission to explore and expand the digital arts boundary, encouraging creative exploration and discourse. The DEAP lab provides 20 MacBook Pro M2 laptops and improves its creative terrain with two sound-equipped video projectors, a 65” UHD 4K screen, and a black box space.
The DEAP studio facility offers the following gear and equipment for student use:
Immersive Art
- Meta Quest 3 VR
- Insta360 ONE X 360 degree photo and video camera
- XBOX Wireless Controller
- SAMSUNG 65″ UHD 4K
Video
- Panasonic LUMIX 4K cameras
- Magnus VT 3000 Tripods
- Oben ASPTA 20 Smartphone Tripod Adaptor
Sound
- ZOOM H3 – VR 360
- Sony MDR7506 Headphone
- MOVO VXR10 Microphone
Media Players
- MICCA 4K media player
- BrightSign LS425 media player
- NETGEAR 5-Port Ethernet Switch
Software
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Unity
- Unreal Engine
- Meta Spark
- Blender
- Experimental free & open source apps
Download Degree Requirements:
Art Major, BFA
Download Degree Requirements
DEAP Mission
To explore and expand the digital arts boundary, encouraging creative exploration and discourse.
Email: [email protected]
Faculty
Nima Bahrehmand (he/they)
Assistant Professor - Art
Office Location: AR 187K
[email protected] 303-615-0131