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Students
Tuition Fee
GBP 15,500
Per year
Start Date
2025-09-01
Medium of studying
On campus
Duration
1 years
Program Facts
Program Details
Degree
Masters
Major
Digital Arts | Digital Media | Artificial Intelligence
Area of study
Arts | Information and Communication Technologies
Education type
On campus
Timing
Full time
Course Language
English
Tuition Fee
Average International Tuition Fee
GBP 15,500
Intakes
Program start dateApplication deadline
2025-09-01-
2026-09-01-
About Program

Program Overview


Art and Emerging Technologies MA

Overview

The Art and Emerging Technologies MA explores experimental applications of creative technologies in art practice, the development of advanced digital skills, and their impact on society, culture, and the environment.


Course Structure

This course is part of a suite of MA art courses which include the Expanded Photography MA and the Global Contemporary Art MA. You’ll tailor your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts. You’ll also undertake the year-long Professional Practice module, which aims to support your progression beyond graduation, and the Masters Project module with students from the other MA art courses, thus benefiting from collaborative opportunities and cross-disciplinary learning.


Core Modules

Ecologies and Technologies

This module explores interrelationships between nature, culture, art and technology, introducing key concepts and technical skills within physical computing, creative coding, and sensing practices, and applying these technologies in a practice-based project to question, and critically reflect upon current environmental and societal challenges.


Emerging Media Realties

This module explores emerging media in relation to creative practice. Through mapping, mediation, and augmentation of environments through extended reality (XR) and locative technologies, you’ll consider the impact and transformation of our perception of the world and the use of technological intervention to enhance user experience and engagement, participation and new modes of interaction and creation.


MA Arts – Master's Project

This module will support you to develop an independently defined practice-led project grounded in the contextual understanding of your area of practice, relevant theoretical debates, and the wider creative industry.


MA Arts – Professional Practice in The Creative Industries

This module offers a framework for you to reflect, develop and identify your professional interests and future career path, and to gain a working knowledge of the creative industries, while supporting you to develop a range of relevant professional skills.


Option Modules

Curatorial and Social Practices

This practice-led module is hosted by the Global Contemporary Art MA and focuses on the range of practical and conceptual skills involved in curating for diverse contexts of global contemporary art and creative industries more widely.


Future Archives

This module is hosted by the Art and Emerging Technologies MA and investigates the potential of digital art and design practices and advanced technologies such as 3D scanning and photogrammetry to expand and create the archive of the future.


Global Arts and Sustainable Futures

This module is hosted by the Global Contemporary Art MA. It is a research-led module that may take either a text-based or practical approach to address concerns with global issues of climate, social justice, and biodiversity.


Image Futures

This module is hosted by the Expanded Photography MA and addresses essential aspects of future-facing photographic production: cutting-edge presentation and dissemination of projects for specific audiences and industries.


Interactive Art and Storytelling

This module is hosted by the Art and Emerging Technologies MA and investigates the scope and potential for digital art practices and emerging technologies to be used to develop new forms of experiences and approaches to interactive storytelling.


Virtual Photography

This module is hosted by the Expanded Photography MA and aims to engage students with expanded notions of photography within virtual spaces, such as gaming, AR, VR, AI, creative coding and 3D visualisation.


Entry Requirements

  • A minimum of an upper second class honours degree (2:1) or a lower second class honours degree (2:2) with relevant experience in related subject areas.
  • Applicants are required to submit a portfolio of recent practice projects.
  • If your first language is not English you should have an IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.0 in writing and no element below 5.5.

Fees and Funding

  • UK tuition fee: £11,700 (Price per academic year)
  • International tuition fee: £15,500 (Price per academic year)
  • Alumni discount available
  • Funding options available, including Student Finance England (SFE) and scholarships

Teaching and Assessment

  • Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, workshops, problem-based and blended learning, and practical application.
  • Assessments include practical and coursework elements, such as presentations, podcasts, blogs, essays, in-class tests, portfolios, and dissertation.

Supporting You

  • Study support, including workshops, 1-2-1 support, and online resources
  • Personal tutors to support you in fulfilling your academic and personal potential
  • Student advice team to provide specialist advice on a range of issues
  • Extra-curricular activities, including volunteering opportunities, sports and fitness activities, and student events

Course Location

  • Harrow Campus, located in north-west London, just 20 minutes from the city centre by train.
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