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Study Details: Two years (60 weeks) Extended full-time
MA Art and Science explores the creative relationships at the intersection of art and science in their broadest forms, examined through an evolving interdisciplinary practice. On this course you will investigate new approaches to making and presenting work and explore the different contexts where practice takes place, triangulating between the studio, the laboratory, and the field.
The course questions established forms of knowledge construction and considers interdisciplinarity, co-creation, and knowledge-sharing as inextricable to the imagining of possible futures. It brings together a diverse cohort of students from different disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, foregrounding an integrative approach driven by curiosity, enquiry and research.
On MA Art and Science, you will consider ways to understand, represent and reinterpret the world through your practice. You will question how the immeasurable can be defined; the invisible envisaged; the senses extended, and perceptions tested. The course structure encourages you to investigate and interrogate contemporary and historical systems of knowledge from both art and science contexts.
The relationship between art and science expands the boundaries of understanding and invention and challenges our view of the world. In the current context of multiple complex global challenges, the MA Art and Science foregrounds ethical, philosophical, and practical questions, inviting innovative contributions that embrace the sciences in the broadest sense and explore what it means to be human in a time of extreme change and uncertainty.
What to expect
Critical and creative investigation: The curriculum emphasises these skills and supports the development of hybrid methodologies and critical thinking through making.
We select applicants according to potential and current ability in the following areas:
We are seeking imaginative, curious, resourceful individuals who are committed to exploring the interrelationships between art and science and developing practice within a fine art context.
Our Postgraduate Art Programme offers valuable opportunities to build transferable professional knowledge and skills. The exchange of perspectives with others through shared units, seminars and debates helps establish stimulating and productive networks.
The focus on proposing and developing a major independent programme of study is supported by a shared professional practice lecture series featuring guest speakers plus opportunities to attend symposia and critique work in progress across course subject areas. The Postgraduate Art Programme has wide-ranging links with professional organisations, collections and galleries, and includes opportunities for interaction and networking according to your personal career direction.
MA Art and Science graduates will be able to initiate, navigate and foster creative exchange between areas of art and the sciences, participate effectively in creative projects with an interdisciplinary perspective, work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams, and exercise initiative and personal responsibility in advancing research skills and subject knowledge as well as in managing their career or further studies. With these attributes and the abilities that underpin them, MA Art and Science graduates will be attractive to organisations that value creative thinking and innovative communication of ideas. Many alumni continue to develop their creative journey as artists and cultural producers within the arts and sciences. They'll also have the potential to develop their interest at research degree level.
MA Art and Science supports the development of your practice, through production and ongoing critical evaluation. The course is structured around 4 Assessed Units which are supported by a series of teaching events, including personal tutorials, seminars, workshops, group crits and external events. The units explore key ideas and critical issues and involve a range of specialist staff.
Project-work is introduced during Unit 1 to support the development of your independent practice, by helping you to structure and manage your work and to articulate your concerns as they change and develop. Year 1 is more intensively taught and includes introductions to key workshops. Year 2 continues with a combination of taught and more independent study as you further develop and realise your research and practice.
In this unit, through a series of projects and experimentation, you will explore emerging discourses in art and science, complemented by practical workshops and introduction to cultural venues and collections relevant to art and science. Teaching is delivered through discursive seminars, lectures, workshops and group and individual projects. These provide a critical context for your research and practice and address different approaches to research methods and to making.
This unit provides opportunities for cross-course creative and collaborative practices in relation to global challenges. The unit explores a range of thematic, experimental, and applied approaches to cross-disciplinary research, enquiry, and knowledge exchange. The aim is to establish a framework for co-operation and social responsibility across the College in relation to our shared values.
Unit 3 explores the relationship between research and practice. You will conduct a focused investigation into a self-identified area of enquiry, leading to a research paper, the development of practical artwork and a proposed study plan for Unit 4.
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