Creative Technologies

Creative Technologies (CT) is an online interdisciplinary arts and design major, with contributions from inspired UCSC faculty teaching at the nexus of technology and creativity. Students in the program develop fluency in the languages and tools of contemporary media, arts, and design technologies, including technologies for creativity in sound, image, and animation; games and playable media; documentary and knowledge-curation media; web-based and participatory media; and creative interactions with machine learning and AI. Creative Technologies is the first online undergraduate major program in the UC system.  

At the core of the creative technologies ethos is a conviction that technology literacy and technology ethics are deeply connected. Artists and designers are primary curators of knowledge, dialogue, and cultural representation. Within those roles, they are held accountable to their commitments to community agency, self-governance, the pursuit of justice and liberty, environmental action, and other values. When artists rise to that accountability, they are empowered to broaden and democratize human knowledge, and transform dynamics of power in society. To support that crucial work, Creative Technologies aims to prepare students for a lifetime of relevant, meaningful, and impactful creative engagement—while instilling capacity for work and play, planning and improvisation, community efficacy, self-expression, collective reflection, and even fun.