DESMA 28

Interactivity

Design|Media Arts · 4 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)

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Foundational introduction to coding within the visual arts with a focus on interactivity. Consideration of interactions with other people and the environment as the starting point for understanding interactions with code. Includes workshops and discussions with demonstrations and studio time. Consideration of how software has affected the visual arts; the potential of software within the visual arts; why a designer or artist would want or need to write software within the visual arts; and the power relationships, inequities, and biases embedded within software and technology.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2025
Winter 2026
Spring 2026
Fall 2026
Winter 2027
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

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Requisites: courses 21, 22, 25.

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Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

DESMA 28

DESMA 21Digital Image
DESMA 22Fabrication and Materials
DESMA 25Typography

3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.

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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.

DESMA 283 more beyond

DESMA 110Tangible Media
DESMA 111Art and the Internet
DESMA 112Performing User
DESMA 113Generative Art
DESMA 114Arts Research and Practice