Studio for Interrelated Media

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The Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) is an academic concentration within the Multimedia and Performing Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Art [1].

"The artists in The Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) combine the study of many media by pursuing the representation of their ideas with the most appropriate media for each idea. This process often results in the extending, reshaping, and breaking of boundaries. SIM is project- and concept-centered and depends on the exchange of experience, knowledge and curiosities of a diverse community of students and faculty."^[1]

[edit] Eventworks

Eventworks is a festival of multimedia and performing arts run by the SIM program.

In 1977, SIM students conceived of and held the first Eventworks, then an international festival of film and music. It was founded to provide venues for new experimental works and to create a link within the college environment and the professional art world. In the twenty-three years since, Eventworks has presented over three hundred artists working in music, installation, film, video, performance, dance, sound and more. ^[2]

The annual Eventworks festival is a completely student-run nonprofit organization for the arts. Students produce this month-long, citywide festival in which they present their own work and run all aspects of the production: curating, directing the technical operations, handling mailing lists, and creating publicity.

Each year, Eventworks producers are self-selected and elected (if need be) among the students in the SIM program. Producers receive academic credit from the college. Funding for the Eventworks festival is provided by the MassArt Student Government Association and through fundraising efforts throughout the year.