George Legrady (media artist), Media Arts & Technology Graduate Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, U.S.A

Digital arts is by nature a hybrid practice, integrating the poetics, aesthetics and conceptual strategies of art with the logical, systematic methods of technological processes from engineering and the sciences. This article reviews the development of interdisciplinary, collaborative arts-engineering research and education at the University of California at Santa Barbara, focusing on the Media Arts & Technology graduate program from a visual/spatial arts perspective.

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/leon.2006.