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Students work with faculty advisors to devise self-designed majors within one of the guiding tracks. Coursework builds upon students’ experiences across other disciplines to support an interdisciplinary mode of deepening their knowledge while providing experience in digital media practices or further develop their passion in a particular area of study.

The Media Arts curriculum at Antioch emphasizes experimental approaches to creative projects.

Students examine contemporary and historical works in film/video, digital and sonic arts, and respond with their own writing, movies, audio works and installations. Students enjoy access to a video recording studio with a green screen and film lighting, an insulated audio recording studio, private editing suites with software including the Adobe Creative Suite, and a 100-seat cinema.

Check out our Vimeo Channel to see what students have been making at Antioch!

Course of Study

Students begin to make films in the introductory class Basic Media Production that introduces them to core technical skills of media equipment and software and continue developing skills in AudioVision: Video Production Intensive, where they tackle collaborative projects in a structure of a three-tiered class providing continued development of production abilities until working as the producer of a fully realized short film. They also have the opportunity for independent project and visual language development in special topics, experimental, and Advanced Projects courses. Media majors complement this foundation with electives across areas of study beyond the larger arts offerings including sciences, philosophy, literature, psychology, and anthropology—providing a unique interdisciplinary education that develops a depth of informed and motivated media making that is relevant and significant to the wider world. Students deepened their real-world experience in media through co-op experiences or Antioch Works jobs with relevant partners including the local NPR station to provide a strong foundation for working in media passionately and effectively.

Current equipment students have access to includes:

Media Arts Facilities and equipment support students to engage digital and analog media production in ways that challenge creative possibilities for moving images providing a unique and multi-faceted technological understanding of media.

Canon T3i and T5i DSLR cameras; Manfrotto tripods; Zhiyun Crane 2 stabilizing gimbals; Zoom H5n and Tascam DR-40 audio recorders; Sony lapel microphones; Sennheiser ME66 K6 Supercardioid microphones. Students have access to a variety of software including the Adobe Creative Cloud.

Students in the custom-built analog experimental video laboratory for the Special Topics in Experimental Media Class with professor Anna Lavatelli.

Notable Alumni

Graduates of the College have received many recognitions. Leilah Weinraub ’02 directed Shakedown (2018), a feature-length documentary about an underground black lesbian stripclub in LA that won the LA Outfest Special Programming Committee Award. Julia Reichert ’70 won the Academy Award for Best Documentary for her American Factory (2019). Wendy Ewald ’74, a filmmaker, photography, activist and educator, received MacArthur Fellowship in 1992 and works as a senior research associate at the Duke University Center for International Studies. John Korty ’59, TV and screenwriter, Emmy winner for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974), Oscar winner for the documentary Who are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977).

Ant Farm, the seminal media art and architecture group behind Media Burn and Cadillac Ranch, and designers of the “Media Van,” designed and built Antioch’s former Art Building

An image from a special screening of Fractal Feedback, which was shot, developed and simultaneously projected in 1974 by Tony Conrad and students in the Antioch Art Building. Forty-seven years later, current students screened the film in the space in which it was created and simultaneously presented a virtual screening in a VR replica of the art building, which visitors could attend as an avatar. Curated by Liz Flyntz 02’ and Catalina Alvarez, co-presented by Museum Without Walls and Arts@Antioch

Students pursuing a degree with a primary focus on media arts should plan to take about 45 credits in MEDA and CAP prefix courses.

Students with a self-design major that incorporates media arts and another area of study should take 12 credits of introductory and intermediate MEDA courses and 12 credits of advanced MEDA courses.

All students incorporating media arts into their major should take at least 8 MEDA credits in history and/or theory.

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Cooperative Education Field Placements

Media Arts students have myriad opportunities for practical experience in the field in courses that engage local radio, television, and cinema, and through a variety of national and international cooperative work opportunities, including:

Assistant Editor and Sound Technician, Sharp Productions, Los Angeles, CA
Digital Archivist, Oral History in the Liberal Arts
Videographer in Residence, Art Place, Portland, IN
Betty’s Daughter’s Arts Collective, Harlem, New York
Kitchen Contemporary Art Center, NY
WYSO 91.3 FM, NPR-affiliate radio station on the campus of Antioch College
Collective Eye Films, Portland, Oregon

Faculty in the arts

NOW WE CAN DO, BECAUSE WE ARE HERE: An interview with Rayy Graham ‘23

Feb 4, 2022

Interview by Matt Walker ‘04 MW: “So anyway, why don't you tell me about yourself? Tell me what your name is, where you're from…” RG: “I'm Rayy. Rayy Graham. I’m a Third Year, Class of 23. I’m from Brooklyn, New York. I came here initially because it's college....

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: LOLA BETZ ’22

Dec 17, 2021

Lola Betz '22 is a filmmaker, artist, musician, fashion-icon, and a true Antiochian. Lola is on the brink of completing a trilogy of feature-length films made at and about Antioch. Her work is rich, mysterious, and fun. Here is a student with great talent and potential. Enjoy this interview with Lola Betz '22.

WHAT’S NEXT: THE FUTURE OF ART WITH MICHAEL CASSELLI ‘87

Oct 19, 2021

Creative Collective founded by Conor Jameson ’21 at YS Porchfest

Sep 17, 2021

Conor Jameson ’21 graduated in June with a self-design major in Writing and Performance. She will perform as the frontwoman in the artistic collective !PUFF! during Yellow Springs Porchfest 2021

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