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Media Lab expands Mount Holyoke’s digital offerings

With the opening of the Media Lab in the Art Building, MHC students exploring filmmaking, architecture, studio art and other pursuits, have another cutting-edge facility — as well as state-of-the-art digital equipment and capabilities — at their disposal. 

This academic year the College has taken another step forward in opening doors to the digital world for women and others who have all too often been shut out.

With the opening of the Media Lab in the Art Building, students exploring filmmaking, architecture, studio art and a host of other pursuits have another cutting-edge new facility — as well as state-of-the-art digital equipment and capabilities — at their disposal. In development for a number of years and completed this past summer thanks to an impressive concentration of energy and coordinated effort, the Media Lab joins and complements a number of other new tech-oriented spaces which have come online in recent years, including the Fimbel Maker & Innovation Lab, the Music Technology Labs in Pratt Hall and the Chen Studio in the Art Building, which is used primarily for film and video work.

For Thomas Ciufo, associate professor of music and director of the Arts and Technology Labs, these new facilities have put Mount Holyoke in a leadership position among women’s colleges in terms of integrating technology into creative arts curricula.

“We are all very excited about the launch of the Media Lab and the curriculum the lab supports and makes possible,” Ciufo said. “From its opening this past semester, students are really engaging with this new lab and making very interesting and innovative work. This new space, in collaboration with our other recently launched tech spaces, creates an amazing network of integrated facilities and new course work at the intersection of creative arts (broadly considered) and emerging technologically informed creative practices.”

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