MA Media Arts
1 year (48 weeks) full time or 2 years part time (96 weeks)
Top facts
- Professional link projects with some of the region’s key arts and media organisations, including Cornerhouse, Urbis, Castlefield Gallery and Cube Gallery in Manchester, FACT and Open Eye in Liverpool, Folly in Lancaster and the National Media Museum in Bradford.
- Set in an inspiring and vibrant professional and artistic community with Manchester and the North West being home to major television companies like the BBC, Media City and Granada, film and digital media production companies, and renowned media and art exhibition centres and galleries.
- Part of the Media LAB - a collaborative programme where those studying on the MAs in filmmaking, media and photography will work alongside each other and on projects.
- Artists and media professionals master classes will form a core of the teaching alongside the professional link programme, together with tutorials, projects, seminars and technical workshops.
You will study
You will research art forms that debate diverse alternative concepts of screen media such as interactive, mobile, networked or installation based narratives. You are encouraged to experiment with non-linear concepts of storytelling, ideas of media sculpture and investigate analogue-digital relationships and their implications on everyday life. Next to individual research students have also participated in external media arts exhibitions, realised public art work and media design commissions and have the opportunity to work in project teams with the School of Computing so that creative ideas can meet technological development.
You will work on individual projects in your chosen field, while experimenting in interdisciplinary groups and in close collaboration with an extensive, regional network of cultural and media organisations.
The course is part of the Media LAB, where filmmaking, film and media studies, photography and media arts students work on professional projects in collaboration with an extensive, regional network of cultural and media organisations.
Professional link placements and projects with the region's major arts and media organisations will be a key strength of the programme, such as Cornerhouse, Castlefield, International Anthony Burgess Foundation and the North West Film Archive in Manchester; FACT Media Centre and Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool, Folly Media Centre in Lancaster and the National Media Museum in Bradford.
Artists' and media professionals' master classes will form a core of the teaching alongside the professional link programme, together with tutorials, theoretical debate, interdisciplinary projects, seminars and technical workshops.
The Media Lab - a 'laboratory for ideas' - understands itself as a collaborative artists' community. We want to provide an open and flexible approach to practice, in which students and researchers can meet, initiate and share activities.
Assessment
Through learning agreements, evidence of practice, learning record and presentation.
Graduates
Students may go on to work as self-employed artists and continue mostly in higher education, teaching or researching, programme planning and curatorial positions in media and cultural institutions and creative industries.
Location
All Saints Campus, Manchester
Fees
UK and EU students full-time £4,500
UK and EU students part-time £250 per 10 credit unit. A Masters qualification typically comprises 180 credits.
Non-EU overseas students £12,500
Entry Requirements
An honours degree or a postgraduate diploma or a professional qualification recognised as being equivalent to an honours degree. Other qualifications or experience may be acceptable if appropriate knowledge and skills at honours degree standard can be demonstrated. In addition you also need to submit a Digital Portfolio
How to Apply
To apply you will need to complete the application form and provide a Digital Portfolio in the form of a website or blog. You should include images or videos of your work, with some information about yourself and your work. Please also describe why you are interested in the programme and what you want to achieve.
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