Master of Arts - Digital Arts

The Digital Arts, MA degree prepares students for the engaging and dynamic world of the digital and creative arts. The course builds upon the solid foundations of undergraduate courses including Digital Arts, Fine Arts, Sound Design, Film, Television, VFX, Animation, Graphic Design and Media and Communications. It aims to help students with creative projects that highlight the importance of practice-based research, expertise and experimentation.

Learners will enjoy research-led teaching that encourages them to produce innovative work that is relevant to the modern digital arts field. Use a range of technological tools to produce a diverse range of creative outputs. Emerge as a versatile and creative professional ready to enter creative agencies and organizations.

Students will be taught by a professional and varied academic staff with specialisms in Digital Arts, Fine Art, Sound Design, Animation, Interactive Technologies and Contemporary Theory. Classes within the world-class facilities of Stockwell Street are taught in small numbers to maximize their contact time with tutors.

Visiting artists will be made available each term for specialist lectures, workshops and tutorials. Theory courses will be taught alongside other master's programmes to encourage subject crossover and multidisciplinary views.

As a digital artist, students can establish a working practice of their own specialism and/or develop a career within a wide range of creative industries. Independent artists who develop their own practice are able to participate in exhibitions and create a freelance working career.

Those who wish to join companies will find employment in fields which include motion graphics for TV, film and computer games, projection mapping and interaction design for live events, digital sound and music production, and creative computing.