Purposes
The Media Center, established in 2001, is the hub of TAU's information
network covering the Hachioji and Kaminoge campuses. Providing
various facilities to students, its main objectives are to support
them in making creations with a fusion of analog and digital techniques
making effective use of new media, computers and the Internet.
Responding to the multi-media era, the center hopes to become a
global base for housing recollections and creative media works,
while researching new roles of art and design in a highly information-oriented
society. A diversity of media, concerning artistic and intellectual
expression ranging from photography to virtual reality, communication,
the storage of information and applied techniques, has been dramatically
changing with the transformation of technological innovation and
culture. Keeping pace with such drastic changes, the center tries
to have a good grip of the subjects of media and information and
provides invaluable support for several experimental projects.
Many works of art and design and the results of academic research
have come out of TAU. Based on this heritage, the Media Center
aims to foster new types of artists and creators who will be able
to effectively utilize a wide variety of media and techniques and
take their futuristic creativity into reality.
Facilities
- 4th floor (center for collaborate studies and center for network services): Collaborate Study Room, GP Project Room, Information Center, LAN Control Room, Institute for Art and Anthropology, Office, Reception Room
- 3rd floor (center for digital images): Digital Image Studio, Computer Studio A&B, 3DCG Studio A
- 2nd floor: 3DCG Studio B
- 1st floor: Media Hall, Media Room, Video Filming Studio
- Basement (center for photo-imaging): Photo Studio, Darkrooms
- Center for Machine Tools (annex): Machine Rooms for coating, metals and wood
- East Painting Building (annex): AV Room