Lab Schedules

Download the PDFs:

Raven 107

Raven 212

Tyee 121

Labs available for student use:

 

Fine Arts Print Shop

For Fine Art Digital Inkjet Printing, please contact the Print Shop Tech, Gordon Ross.

 Raven 109

 gordon.ross@nic.bc.ca

 250.334.5000 ext. 4255

Print services

• Roll and sheet inkjet printing. Printed on archival papers, backlit media and canvas.
• 4-colour separations and black & white film stencils. Printed on transparent film.
• 4-colour laser printing.

File types accepted (preferred):

• PDF
• Tiff (flattened-no layers) using LZW (lossless) compression.
• PSD (flattened-no layers)

Submission of print projects/files

There are two ways to submit your files for printing:

• Files can be delivered directly to the Print Shop on a USB stick
• Files can be digitally transferred to the Print Shop by accessing the Print Shot Drop Box located on the Fine Arts Server.

 

Equipment

Equipment Loan Program - Fine Arts Department

Interactive Media students have access to the Fine Arts Equipment Loan Program. Video cameras, digital SLR's, projectors, microphones, audio gear and more can be signed out on a 24-48hr loan from the Digital Tech Office / Print Shop in Raven Hall.

Stop by or contact Gordon Ross at gordon.ross@nic.bc.ca for more information.

Tech Specs for IMG Programs

IMPORTANT: As students you qualify for a number of discounts, both for software and hardware. Do not pay anything without researching educational pricing (which requires your student ID – see links below).

 

What computer should I buy?

While you can adapt most computers and operating systems to work for your IMG program, a Mac laptop (or desktop) is recommended. Both Mac and Windows will be used in the programs and as Mac has a dual booting option (which allows MS Windows to run on the same machine), we recommend students buy a Mac. If a student decides to purchase a Windows PC after all, that will work too. Research your choices well. Remember, you can run Windows software on a Mac.

Apple Bootcamp

 

Does the operating system matter?

It is important that your operating system and computer are relatively new. If purchasing a Mac you will have Mac OS X, then you can have a free copy of Window OS under the DreamSpark agreement. In the program you will also learn and use other Windows and open source software. The good news is, as a registered IMG student, most of these programs can be freely downloaded from the DreamSpark site or from the web.

How much ram/ storage/ size of screen - is there a minimum?

• 8Gb of RAM, 500Gb of storage on the hard drive is the minimum requirement.
• Eyes get tired when squinting at a tiny screen for any length of time. Think of your computer as an investment in your future.

 

FTP Access

FTP at NIC Interactive Media

FTP is short for File Transfer Protocol. A protocol is a set of rules that networked computers use to talk to one another. And FTP is the language that computers on a TCP/IP network (such as the internet) use to transfer files to and from each other.

You use an FTP client to log into an FTP server, navigate the server’s folder structure, and exchange files. That’s pretty much all FTP clients do — unlike Web browsers, FTP clients are tailor-made for such duties. The latest full-featured web editors like Dreamweaver have FTP fuctions built-in. As far as standalone FTP clients go, there are literally hundreds out there. Some are free, some are more expensive than a night on the town.

We recommend using Cyberduck or Fetch. Cyberduck can be used for PCs and Macs, and Fetch which is only good for Macs. Fetch generally costs money, but our NIC students can have it for free.

Web Hosting

Students enrolled in programming courses complete their coursework using the AWS web-hosting platform.

Each student is provided with a domain name and has access to unlimited bandwidth, databases and subdomains. Accounts will be set-up in class at the beginning of the semester.