Media Arts Philosophy and Practice, MA-PGDip-PGCert
Objectives* To give a thorough postgraduate advanced training in the contemporary methods, practices and philosophic foundations of the media arts, especially emphasising the sensuous logics of the creative technologies * To enable the student to be well-qualified and well-placed to undertake further research and to be able to connect with creative industries, art institutes, galleries, both locally and at international levels
Academic titleMedia Arts Philosophy and Practice, MA/PGDip/PGCert
Course descriptionThis programme is an advanced taught/research degree which focuses on the interfaces among theory, political philosophy, new media, visual-acoustic culture and the fine arts.
The MA programme comprises three core courses and one option course for the taught portion of the programme. A research dissertation is also required, which can either be completed in 'traditional' form (i.e. 15,000 words) or as part practice-based and written (8,000 - 10,000 words and practice-based research arts project).
In our Department of Creative, Critical, and Communication Studies, the student will have additional access to courses in the fields of visual and acoustic culture: moving image, radio, digital arts, art criticism, net-art, creative writing, e-gaming, philosophy of art, acoustic art practices, art history, the digital-mobile multi-media and its relation to the body, contemporary new (and old) media technologies, production and representation of space, music, performance, architecture and design.
Core courses
* Foundations I: Contemporary Political Philosophy and Aesthetics
* Foundations II: Untimely Meditations and Discursive Analysis
* The Research Methods Seminar
* Dissertation
Option
One from the following:
* Creative Writing
* Underground Resistance through Music
* Writing Screen Narratives
* The Body and the Digital
* Space, Representation, Production and Use
* Viewing Technology
* Image Manipulation and the Digital World
* Post-Colonialism and the Coming Community
* Contemporary Cultures and Commodification
* Internet and Web Technologies; Design and 3D Development of Multimedia Systems
* Independent Study Research Project
Career Options
Suitable for those hoping to go on to PhD study in media arts research, enhance professional links with local and international arts institutes, enhance academic skills, pursue particular subject enthusiasms, or to carry out a research project that embraces the complex landscapes of the aural and visual arts