A LOOK AT THE ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY DEGREE
What is this advanced degree of A-Tech or Digital Content Development?

Currently being used in the entertainment industry but it will become used in education and training, news and information marketing and retail as well.

Recently, the schools of Engineering and Computer Science and Arts and Humanities have joined together to create this A-Tech field. Dr. Dennis Kratz, Dean of the school of Arts and Humanities, blended these fields at UTD and brought Dr. Thomas Linehan to serve as Director for the new Institute of Arts and Technology.

One such graduate student is David Hanson who is featured on our cover page this issue. David began college at North Texas in the late ‘80’s as a science major but enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. This led to being a six year career as an artist with the Walt Disney studios where he designed artwork, meeting Bar-Choen who developed electroactive polymers for artificial muscles in NASA robots. This promoted an assignment for David to create a robotic head, which he modeled after a girlfriend. The robotic head is named Hertz.

Dr. Linehan welcomes inquiries and visits. Dallas has gained a talent pool of writers who are prepared for a new world of publication and communication. Foremost is the high degree of flexibility of job choices after graduation.

A second program of interest is “Artist in Residency” directed by Dr. Venus Reese. Performing artists are to be available as resident artists and a special play, presentation written with Dr. Reese and performed at UTD University Theater. This enables students to interact daily with artist to gain more in depth grasp of what their own career may become, a reflection sounding board of their UTD classes and professors.

For more information about UT Dallas’ Art and Technology programs, please contact Dr. Linehan at 972-883-4379