In the Digital Media area at WSU students learn and embrace a wide variety of art and design mediums including 2D/3D animation, 3D printing and digital fabrication, interactive media, print based design, digital drawing and painting, digital video/film, VR/AR, digital media installation and performance, web projects, experimental sound, kinetic sculpture and physical computing. Students are provided with the framework and artistic context to create art and design work in these fields. The digital program area is set up for students to engage in creative, innovative art and design practices. The program is flexible in its ability to be interdisciplinary and encourages individual artistic development and art making that also involves collaboration, research and combined media. Students are encouraged develop their unique and diverse approaches to using digital media, highlighting issues of representation, experimental methods, emerging technologies and the way technology impacts the way we understand, navigate, and produce social space as well as explorations that fall outside the boundaries of traditional modes of production. In this regard, students are encouraged to bridge traditional and digital processes and explore media in conjunction with the computer, for example, Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Photography, Sculpture and Ceramics (for print-based, installation and immersive – space-based explorations). In studio courses, theoretical and contextual explorations are woven into technical discourse.