The vision of PIMA
The MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) offers opportunities for deep investigations into collaboration, performance, social practice, and technology. The majority of PIMA students are mid-career artists with significant bodies of work; but exceptional early-career artists are also typically accepted into each cadre of MFA students.
With roots in avant-garde theater, music, dance, and performance art, PIMA engages deeply with practices of collective co-authorship, coding as a common language for creative expression, and performance as a form free from disciplinary bounds.
In an intensive two-year MFA program, students work in shifting interdisciplinary groups on technology-enabled works performed throughout New York City, study in-depth a common programming language to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, make site-specific and community-engaged works, and stretch and challenge themselves as artists in continuous co-authorship, development, and production of performance projects.
PIMA students are an international group of artists from a broad variety of disciplines and backgrounds. The PIMA cadre is genderdiverse, neurodiverse, and culturally and philosophically wide-ranging.
PIMA is a cooperative interdisciplinary program of five departments at Brooklyn College: