critical media practices

  • Clouds
    Sean Winters, a lecturer in the Department of Critical Media Practices, is part of a team of developers creating a new virtual reality experience with a unique purpose: helping patients undergoing medical treatment.
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    Recent graduate Bryan Chi Hun Lai wanted to explore the relationship between space and sound, all while inspiring others to do the same. In a spring art exhibition, Chi Hun took attendees on a meditative, extended reality experience to a goldfish pond.
  • All of the students in Connections pose for a photo together on their first day.Featured from left to right: Top row - Isabella Herrera, Alexandra Corsino, Lhaten Wood, Jaena Moore, Sara Marquez, Johnita Smith, Salem Hill.Bottom Row - Estrella Hernandez, Annika Garr, Hannah Martin, Car'rie Robinson.
    CMCI continues its pre-collegiate outreach efforts through the 2022 Connections: CMCI Summer Academy.High school students, CMCI peer mentors, faculty and staff came together this July to build new bonds and celebrate the first fully in-person year of the program.
  • Students at Pathways
    For the past 10 years, incoming college first-year students have flocked to Ƶ’s campus to get a taste of college life before the semester begins. After two years of COVID-induced restrictions, the Pathways to Excellence program is back in full swing in 2022.
  • Mimesis Documentary Festival logo
    The third annual Mimesis Documentary Festival will be held in Boulder from Tuesday, Aug. 2, to Sunday, Aug. 7. The festival, which is open to the public and University of Colorado Boulder community, is hosted by the College of Media, Communication and Information’s Center for Documentary and Ethnographic Media (CDEM).
  • Flatirons Flowers
    CMCI students who have completed at least 12 credit hours of Ƶ Boulder course work for a letter grade in any single semester and achieve a term grade point average of 3.75 or better are included on the Dean’s List. They receive a notation on
  • CMCI on Ƶ's seal
    Congratulations to our 2022 graduates! We are thrilled to celebrate with you and are proud to call each of you a Forever Buff. Our ceremony is available online, watch now!
  • Shawn Mitchell
    Fourth-year student Shawn Mitchell was planning to study physics until a gap year changed the course of his collegiate experience. This month, Mitchell is ready to graduate and pursue his passion for immersive media with the distinction of being the Department of Critical Media Practice’s William W. White Outstanding Senior.
  • Students in Steven Frost's class
    CMCI Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lisa Flores reflects on the history of Blacks and African Americans in the United States—encapsulated in the song, “Lift Every Voice and Sing”—and urges us to bring that history forward both during, and beyond, Black History Month.
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