The Department aims to provide its graduates with digital skills and an in-depth understanding of the practical and theoretical dimensions of the creative process, through digital technological means. For this reason, the curriculum is multi-level, interdisciplinary, interdisciplinary and graduates will acquire the ability and self-sufficiency to create, that is, to design but also to implement and produce digital and audiovisual works on their own, based on a sound theoretical foundation and integrated into a political, social and cultural context.
The undergraduate program of the Department of Digital Arts and Cinema consists of two main pillars: digital arts and cinema. These two main directions meet at several points, interact and function complementary, which is why they coexist in the same curriculum. Regarding digital art forms (New Media Art, Digital Art, Interactive Art), artistic creation that utilizes: hypermedia technologies, digital video, virtual, augmented and mixed reality, digital games, pervasive computing, mobile communication and geolocation, digital sound, internet and social media is taught.
Regarding cinema, video and audiovisual forms of artistic expression in general, whether produced through analog or digital media, the new department teaches: cinematography, screenwriting, directing, audiovisual narrative design (decoupage, storyboarding), image and sound editing, production, 2D and 3D animation and sound design. At the same time, however, basic background courses are taught: composition (visual, plastic, sound, audiovisual), theory (history of art and cinema, philosophy, aesthetics) and technology (computer science, programming and implementation at the software and hardware levels). All of the above subjects are applied and interact with the central core of laboratory courses of artistic creation that run through the entire structure of the program, after the 2nd semester and essentially constitute the backbone of studies in the new Department. Finally, students delve deeper into the formation of their own artistic practice through the preparation of a thesis in the last semester of their studies.