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The Media Arts Studio at Central Institute of Technology Perth currently serves courses from Certificate III levels to Advanced Diploma level. The studio was the first dedicated digital art studio in a visual art context and opened in the then newly built art school on 12 Aberdeen St. Northbridge Western Australia. The Media Art Studio is within the previously listed building which had been an artists studio, photography studio, art framers and gallery.
The studio was initially set up through the drive and focus of Paul Thomas who had taught within Central's visual arts since the late 1970s and whose interests were in the development and integration of theory with new media, multidisciplinary exploration and experimental processes across media.
The Media Art studio's staff included Mark Cypher and Jeremy Blank . The studio opened in 1999 and emphasized a multidisciplinary approach across traditional and new areas of art making. The studio maintained strong links with printmaking, photography, interactive sculptural installation, web design and painting. Students could elect to study Digital Arts (as it was then termed) as a specialist area of focus at Diploma and Advanced Diploma levels up to 2012 when studio areas were reduced to a generic studio model. Paul Thomas moved to Curtin University in 2002 developing the Studio for Electronic Arts (SEA) and is now head of school at the College of Fine Arts University of New South Wales, Sydney. In 2004 Mark Cypher moved to Murdoch University as Chair of Digital Media . Today the area is co-ordinated by Jeremy Blank.
Other staff working in the studio have included Bela Kotai, Cam Merton, Rick Vermey, Dave Carson and the late Peter Rucks and staff from the Fashion portfolio.
