The IDIA offers curriculum in partnership with the Department of Art and the School of Music in the College of Fine Arts; and the Department of Architecture in the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University. IDIA immersive learning and emerging media experiences attract students from all disciplines to design and produce a host of interactive digital projects. Undergraduate and graduate curriculum in new media are available in Art, Music and Architecture. Several new programs are also in development.
The IDIA Immersive Seminar that involves students from across campus to work on innovative projects. Check out our recent news for descriptions of current and ongoing projects.
One Night Only was a film created at Ball State University as an immersive learning experience class ART 299x The Summer Animation Studio. It was a 10-week summer class that created . . .
Ball State University Music Technology senior, Matt Erwin designed and built a museum exhibit for placement in the Academy of Model Aeronautics in Muncie, IN. This interactive exhibition was produced in . . .
An interactive 3D touch screen kiosk designed by Nick Johnson was featured at the 2008 Indiana State Fair.
LAVDS is a configurable three dimensional learning interface - providing on demand, just in time virtual architecture in support of teaching and learning. Linking Architecture programs from 11 International Universities from . . .
It is a movie. It is a stage performance. What began as a short story by one creative writing student has blossomed into a massive collaborative project featuring the talents of . . .
IDIA is creating a media rich interactive digital kiosk for the Digital Fabrication Institute
IDIA students and staff have designed a custom MS Surface application for browsing and searching an art museum's collection - connecting the art objects on display with the vast archived content . . .
The IDIA Seminar's current project focuses on virtually recreating the original settings of various sculptures found throughout the Ball State Museum of Art.
The Muncie Max Users Group is a collection of students and faculty who use MaxMSP/Jitter to sound and visual art. . . .
The Immersive Seminar in Intermedia Art is a project-based, interdisciplinary, collaborative production seminar exploring the intersection of aesthetics & emerging technology.
Ball State University and the Technische Universität Dortmund have partnered in creating an international exchange program for students studying the design and technology of Intermedia artforms.
IDIA, in partnership with the BSU School of Nursing, developed and launched a new Nursing Interview Simulator in the virtual world of Blue Mars. Blue Mars is a next generation and . . .
The IDIA has virtualized and digitally extended some of the functionality of a library for a virtual online world
IDIA has produced a bridging toolset, linking the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life with Blackboard - providing a unified, secure and fluid hybrid learning experience. This project is funded by . . .
The Aesthetic Camera Project was designed to deliver digital cinema curriculum through Second Life - an online virtual world. This intensive research and development project was hatched through a partnership between . . .
interActivity was a collaborative art system at the Ball State University Art Museum on February 25th 2007. . . .
The Virtual Middletown Project brings to life the 1929 and 1937 Lynd Study of Middletown America through the virtual world of Blue Mars. This prototype recreates elements of industrial life from . . .
IDIA Lab in Blue Mars, is an evolving showcase of historic simulation projects from the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts at Ball State University. Explore the 1915 World’s Fair, Asian temples, . . .
The Twitter Cloud is a real time interactive Twitter visualization using the Java, Twitter and Processing API's. . . .
iDMAa 2009 Conference Networking System encompassing RFID conference badges, RFID enabled automated tweet stations, MS Surface conference information center, Second Life Hybrid networking area, and a central web application for mobile . . .
The Immersive Seminar in Intermedia Art is a project-based, interdisciplinary, collaborative production seminar exploring the intersection of aesthetics & emerging technology.
IDIA, in partnership with the BSU School of Nursing, developed and launched a new Nursing Interview Simulator in the virtual world of Blue Mars. Blue Mars is a next generation and . . .
Ball State University and the Technische Universität Dortmund have partnered in creating an international exchange program for students studying the design and technology of Intermedia artforms.
IDIA has been commissioned to design and build a virtual presence and artworks for the upcoming Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.
IDIA Lab is designing and producing a virtual simulation of the villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, which is located outside of Rome in Tivoli, Italy. This project is under contract . . .
LAVDS is a configurable three dimensional learning interface - providing on demand, just in time virtual architecture in support of teaching and learning. Linking Architecture programs from 11 International Universities from . . .
