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MA Animation
The Animation pathway seeks to explore and develop creative and critical practice within the Animation field. The emphasis is on MA students building upon the foundations of their own existing portfolio of work (produced during under-graduate studies, or past professional work). The pathway focuses on integrating practice with the emerging and exciting critical, historical and theoretical currents in Animation Studies. Areas of expertise within Animation include a range of expert practitioners in traditional drawn and computer animation, as well as a designated specialist in animation theory and history.
MA Contemporary Performance
The Contemporary Performance pathway offers the
opportunity to focus on theoretical and practical approaches to
this discipline, to explore a broad range of methodologies, and to
strengthen individual performance-making skills.
The pathway will appeal to students who are inspired by engagement
with a diverse range of performance possibilities including live
art, digital, post-text, and radical theatre practice and who are
stimulated by the potential to work with other students on
cross-disciplinary collaborations, supported by the specialist
facilities of the University College. Graduates from an arts
background interested in becoming part of the next generation of
International contemporary performance artists, theorists, critics,
or dramaturgs will be encouraged to develop their understanding of
professional practice through the exploration and interrogation of
themes such as audience, staging, and identity, in relation to the
delivery of live and mediated performance. Study will culminate in
the creation of a body of work and/or performance outcome which
will demonstrate students’ greater understanding of the subject
discipline, and their engagement with the delivery of unique,
engaging, and relevant artistic work for specific audiences.
MA Costume
The Costume pathway supports and develops advanced
practitioners who have ambition to explore, challenge and redefine
the roles and relationships between costume and
‘audience’.
The MA student will, through research, scholarship, conceptual
enquiry and the making of work, strive toward innovative solutions
to complex and individual creative proposals which are the central
focus for their personal and artistic development. Research
specialisms include live art practice as well as academic,
theoretical and critical emphases. The pathway is supported by
lectures and seminars in areas of performance to enable students to
critically reflect on (and to consider their place of practice
within) the discipline. Seminar discussion will invite critique of
students’ own work and that of other advanced practitioners. Areas
of expertise within the course team focus on: world performance and
the interaction of East and West in theatrical cultures and
stereotypes, examination of the boundaries of design across
disciplines, post-modern opera, experimental dance and abstract
performance art.
MA Fine Art
The Fine Art pathway supports emerging artists who are
eager to explore and confront their practice in the endeavour to
redefine their position in relation to contemporary
art.
The MA student is engaged in focusing on the context for practice,
where it is aligned with other specialisms and the importance of
process and material. Ideas are generated through research,
scholarly activity and conceptual enquiry and brought to
realisation in an individual body of work that is tested in the
public domain. Audience and space are two major factors considered
in the process of making work. Students engage with one another in
the practice and research of art. Discussion and presentation of
ideas and the examination of outcomes form the basis for learning.
Areas of expertise within the course team focus on the
transformation of materials in the pursuit of meaning, drawing,
renewal of painting, the objectness of sculpture, installation and
space, performance, video, the document, photography and new
media.
MA Graphic Design
The Graphic Design pathway encourages designers to
explore ways to develop understanding between co-communicators,
through systematically interrogating design practice, and by
generating alternative visual solutions.
MA students
enquire into ways that users make meaning from graphic design in
order to take into consideration a range of factors (such as
materiality and site) that potentially contribute to communication
processes. Students seek to anticipate the possible consequences of
their design interventions, including the meanings constructed
through their practice, in relation to ethical and sustainability
issues as well as to other relevant contexts. Creative approaches
are required that respond to complex situations in which many
problems reside. Methodologies are therefore developed on the
course that identify particular research foci; where practice is
supported by relevant lines of enquiry, research methods, and
appropriate theoretical frameworks. Outcomes are not constrained by
media or by limited interpretations of what it is to be a graphic
designer. Consequently an outcome might involve the design of an
experience or service, as much as it might concern more
conventional forms of graphic production.
MA Illustration
The Illustration pathway encourages practitioners to question the nature of their own practice, its context and place within the creative industries and beyond. The pathway offers an expansive notion of illustration exploring the relationships between illustrator as author, audience/artifice, and site or context, and the contemporary blurring of boundaries across disciplines. Ideas will be researched and developed through specific individual approaches to practical research and reflective enquiry and applied using appropriate media and techniques. The pathway will appeal to students who are open to engagement with a diverse range of creative ideas and possibilities, from traditional illustration techniques including drawing and printmaking, to digital lens-based and time-based media, exhibition and performance.
MA Interactive Media
The Interactive Media pathway supports advanced artists
and designers who wish to develop and refine their practice in and
through a wide range of digital media.
This pathway is of particular relevance for practitioners wishing
to engage directly with skills in interaction design, installation
and user-centered design, whilst challenging perceptions of the
production and delivery of content in this new-media world. This
pathway provides the support necessary for such personal
professional development: an informed critical environment, the use
of professional creative design methodologies and exposure to
industry-standard design and development processes. Areas of
continuing interest that provide starting points for individual
work include Future Cinema, Sensate Spaces, Interactive Narrative,
Digital Post-Production and Web 2.0 Technology.
MA Photography
The Photography pathway recognises and celebrates a
photographic practice that is an increasingly demanding, diverse,
complex, challenging and compelling experience.
MA
students engage in a practice within a resource that recognises the
importance of antiquarian processes through to digital imaging and
will have a curiosity about what these possibilities offer in the
investigation and representation of social and cultural
imperatives. Ideas are generated that provoke a wide diversity of
outcomes which reflect demands on the meaning and position of
photography in work that could be time-based, sculptural,
site-specific, or which addresses issues raised by the document or
other traditional means of representation. Practice is underpinned
by history and theories; analytical, critical reflection that
supports students in their consideration of the context; audience
and professional relevance of their practice in an independent or
commercially structured environment. The flexibility of this
pathway reveals opportunities for applicants interested in the
possibilities of interaction with other MA subject disciplines at
the University College.
