The ICAM Program in the Music and Visual Arts departments draws upon, and aims to bring together, ideas and paradigms from computer science, art and cultural theory. The departments take for granted that the computer has become a meta-medium and that artists and musicians working with computers are expected to combine different media forms in their works. This makes the program unique among other existing computer art or design programs. The program also recognizes that creating sophisticated artistic works with computers requires a new model of the creative process, one that combines traditional artistic procedures with the experimental research characteristic of the sciences. The goals of the program are: to prepare the next generation of artists who will be functioning in a computer-mediated culture, to give students necessary technical, theoretical and historical backgrounds so they can contribute to the development of new aesthetics for computer media, to prepare students to mediate between the worlds of computer science and technology, the arts, and the culture at large by being equally proficient with computing and cultural concepts, to give students sufficient understanding of the trajectories of development in computing so they can anticipate and work with the emerging trends, rather than being locked into particular software currently available on the market.