Digital Arts

You should have a degree equivalent to UK first-class or second-class honours (2:2 or above) in a relevant subject such as music, animation, fine art, or performance. You should submit a portfolio of work that showcases your creative practice to support your application.

Reinvent the relationship between music and the visual arts. Blend skills from creative disciplines – music, sound design, animation, performance, art and design – as you carve out a career in the digital arts. Get hands-on with creative computer technology and develop high-level conceptual knowledge of your craft. Our modules are designed to build the confidence to take your performance and interactivity to another level. You’ll develop skills and knowledge in interactive and digital contexts. Explore everything, from the web and mobile media to animations, installations, and interactive performances. You’ll create cross-disciplinary mixed/inter/multi-media artworks that challenge established thinking and push boundaries. Sustainability is a vital theme. You’ll have opportunities to explore audiovisual environmental artworks, installations, networking and streaming for remote performance and interaction. We’ve designed our MA Digital Arts with your future career in mind. You’ll learn transferable skills like programming and coding, and create a portfolio of work, equipped to take your next steps.

You will be assessed primarily through practical projects, with supporting written work and oral presentations that develop your communication skills. Where a practical submission is the primary component of assessment, an accompanying written submission or presentation would ordinarily be expected. A range of performance exhibition spaces are available in the Creative Edge building and the Arts Centre, to present both work in progress and final projects. There are no formal written examinations as part of the current assessment methods on this taught Masters degree.