New Media Zone to be Highlighted by Lou Madigan of Steiner Studios
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus on October 25
– Media Arts Department Celebrates 25 Years with Gala –

Brooklyn, N.Y. – A new media zone that will add to the jobs and vitality in downtown Brooklyn is the focus of the 25th anniversary celebration of the Media Arts Department at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

Guest speaker Lou Madigan, the executive vice president of Steiner Studios, will describe "Brooklyn: New Media Zone – New Jobs" at a champagne reception on Saturday, October 25 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Campus’s Spike Lee Screening Room, Library Learning Center Room 122.

"Steiner Studios is leading the way in the creation of an urban media zone – stretching from the Brooklyn Academy of Music to the Brooklyn Navy Yard – that will create new opportunities in our community," said Gale Stevens Haynes, provost of the Brooklyn Campus, "We are happy to collaborate in this exciting phenomenon."

Steiner Studios, located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, is being developed to promote the growth of film and television production in New York City. When completed, it will be the largest production facility east of Los Angeles, and will create more than 1,000 jobs in downtown Brooklyn.

"We want to provide the training for those jobs and we want to tell our students and alumni who are interested in media careers about our involvement in this project," said Professor and Chair of Media Arts Claire Goodman. "We pride ourselves on providing an integrated program with small classes in which we teach our students not only to compete professionally but to be well-informed citizens as well."

With about 300 students, the program is the largest department within the Campus’s division of arts, and offers B.A. and M.A. in Media Arts degrees that fuse traditional art theory, methods and production with the technology of today's new media. Up-to-date digital audio and video studios and equipment have been added as well as a new concentration in video journalism.

For more information, call Claire Goodman at (718) 488-1052.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 30,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including more than 11,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.