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Creative Technologies: Interdisciplinary Technologies

Overview

The interdisciplinary Creative Technologies major emphasizes design and practice in the integration of digital technologies and the fine arts.

In addition to foundational study across the fine arts, the major provides training and experiences across a range of creative/technical fields, including:

  • video
  • sound
  • electronic music
  • music production
  • gaming
  • motion graphics
  • interactivity
  • AR/VR
  • UI/UX
  • mobile, web, and computer programming concepts

Why Study Creative Technologies: Interdisciplinary Technologies?

Any student in the Arts program can take courses in Creative Technologies. If you major in Creative Technologies, you get a more in-depth academic experience with digital image-making, audio, and interactive environments such as the web.

Creative technologies at Illinois State is a multimedia school providing experiences in music (sound design), theater (light and sound design), and art (Web design). The curriculum emphasizes theory, design, and practice in the application of computer technology to art, music, and theatre.

A degree in Creative Technologies prepares you with a broad range of knowledge and skills in multimedia design, including

  • digital video and sound
  • computer graphics and theater design
  • digital and MIDI music
  • web design
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Financial Support

We offer scholarships to help you achieve your goals.

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Faculty

All creative technologies faculty teach courses for B.A. or B.S. in Interdisciplinary Technologies.

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Creative Technologies Affiliated Faculty

Brian Franklin
Associate Professor

Roy Magnuson
Assistant Professor

Tony Reimer
Instructional Assistant Professor

Current Work

Game Design Sequence

Night of the Cults

Board Game - Steve Bryant, Jimmy Parello, Shayna B Rosenberg Night of the Cults is a fast paced game of supernatural skullduggery and brutal betrayals. Players assume the roles of rival cult members, each intent on unlocking the secret of a mysterious maze beneath an ancient manor. Along the way, they collect items necessary to summon their god, acquire magic items, and battle rival cultists.

Pompeii

Digital Game - Mason Bates, Amanda Hoffman, Adam Lindquist, Mitchell Zook You find yourself inside an exploding volcano and the only way is up! Use your platforming skills, speed, and reflexes to get out before the lava catches up with you.

Cyber Defense

Digital Game - Will Andrews, Mason Bates, Joseph Gawlik, Nick Huber, Micheal Monroe Crush the attacker with a masterful defense or topple your opponent with a tidal wave of attackers in this 2-player asymmetric turn-based strategy game lets you fight for the streets of a cyberpunk city! Prove to your friends that you are the master strategist and master Cyber Defense. Download and play the final version here: gg-studio.itch.io/cyber-defense

Stationeers

Board Game - Mason Bates, Donte Foster, Hercules Smith, Jacob Tolonen Welcome to Stationeers! A game of designing, repairing, and most importantly surviving aboard your own personalized space station. You are amongst one of the few individuals charged with repairing the station and must keep it going as long as possible. But, be warned, maintaining items in space is quite a daunting task.

Boring Game

Digital Game - Sargylana Cherepanova An interactive experience created for an artistic and expressive journey.

Confused

Motion Graphic Still - Amal Abdalla Students utilized Adobe AfterEffects in order to convey a mood through abstract shapes. Thinking about camera angles and composition, they created unique and interesting motion designs.

Red Car

Digital Game - Prince Rana, Jacob Tolonen, Cambry Totten-Wade This experimental demo features a high-fidelity 3D racing track and custom car controllers.

Dread

Motion Graphic Still - Daniel Rio Narciso Students utilized Adobe AfterEffects in order to convey a mood through abstract shapes. Thinking about camera angles and composition, they created unique and interesting motion designs.

Paper Prototyping - 01

Students created paper prototypes in order to do rapid testing for their mobile application designs, get feedback, and be introduced to user testing.

Animated City Skylines

Motion Graphic Still - Kevin Hursey Using both Adobe Illustrator and AfterEffects to create an animation of city skylines.

Paper Prototyping - 03

Students created paper prototypes in order to do rapid testing for their mobile application designs, get feedback, and be introduced to user testing.

Paper Prototyping - 02

Students created paper prototypes in order to do rapid testing for their mobile application designs, get feedback, and be introduced to user testing.

Paper Prototyping - 04

Students created paper prototypes in order to do rapid testing for their mobile application designs, get feedback, and be introduced to user testing.

Paper Prototyping - 06

Students created paper prototypes in order to do rapid testing for their mobile application designs, get feedback, and be introduced to user testing.

Paper Prototyping - 05

Students created paper prototypes in order to do rapid testing for their mobile application designs, get feedback, and be introduced to user testing.

Homeroom

Mobile App Design - Kevin Hursey Homeroom is an application where parents can access their child’s classwork, homework, due dates and even a teacher’s contact information in hopes of making sure their child is academically on track.

Professor Rose Marshack and her ATK 260

"The Rainbow Tunnel"

Professor Marshack demonstrates "Find Reggie"

An ATK 380 project at the ISU Alumni Event

The QUAD Experience

An ATK 380 project at the ISU Alumni Event

Finding Reggie

ATK 380 project

Children's Discovery Museum

The ATK 260 classes took over the Imagination Station at the museum to showcase their interactive projects from the class

Normal Traditions Alumni Event

Arts Technology students showcased 3 of their projects at the Crystal Gardens in Chicago

ATK Music Festival

Arts Technology Film Fest

Featuring projects and movies for ATK 260

The Decades Experiance

ISU Alumni Event

Arts Technology Program

Arts Technology Program

Arts Technology Faculty

By Nathan Cruse

Arts Technology Program

Arts Technology student Eric Jordan interned at HST Materials Inc last summer. He along with fellow intern Jack Miller invented a ‘Cone of Silence’ for one of their loudest machines in the warehouse, the Atom Flashcut Flex machine. Eric helped design a three-layered enclosure that has lowered the noise in the warehouse by 11 decibels. In response to the ‘Cone of Silence,’ Elk Grove Village recognized the company’s Excellence in Innovation at the 2015 Elk Grove Manufacturing and Technology Expo and awarded them the 2015 Business Excellence Award. Congratulations Eric!!!

Arts Technology Program

Scuba Scoop

Winner of the 1st Annual Charleen R. Crean Memorial Arts Award Showcase. Project Designers: Mykaila Clesen, Emily Farr, Rachel Kellett, Andrea McDowell, Brian Paglia and Max Sagan

See More of Our Student Work: Behance Creative Technologies Portfolio and Indie games from the Game Design Sequence

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