MA Art and Media Practice: University of Westminster

Course Overview

This innovative project-based programme focuses on the cross-fertilisation of artistic and theoretical ideas across a range of media. The course encourages the development of personal creative work across a broad spectrum of art and media practices within the context of contemporary critical debates. Responding to demand from home and abroad for practice-based opportunities, this programme has built on the diversity of our creative and critical expertise in combinations of:

Time-based work: ranging across film, video, animation, sound and performance; interactive digital media: CD-Rom, websites and interactive installation.

Art in the Public Domain: whether this is physical, virtual, or social; exploring sustainability and environment, fusions between traditional and new technologies, socially engaged and situated practices.

Crossing Dimensions: across what is termed 2D, 3D or 4D; graphic art and design, painting, illustration, photography, digital imaging, installation, ceramics, sculpture and moving image.

Course Content

The practical project is the centre of the course: you use your existing art and media skills to develop a professional quality project that proceeds from research to public exhibition. This is supported by research active supervisors (many of whom have international reputations), visiting speakers, technical facility centres, seminars, presentations and tutorials in a professional and supportive environment.

Technical Workshops

During the first semester they run a series of optional training sessions for those interested  in digital moving image and related areas: use of equipment, cameras etc, Final Cut Pro, audio and Soundtrack, DVD authoring. They also arrange group sessions customised according to what other skill areas students feel they need to expand to develop their project proposals and individual support is provided as the course progresses. In addition they run a ‘skills bank’ where students transfer skills on a more informal basis.