Masters in Digital Arts

The University’s Department of Digital Arts at the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences has launched a new, full-time, practice-oriented, postgraduate award in digital art practice and theory.

The degree in digital arts is an umbrella programme that offers a comprehensive approach to image-making that encourages innovation through practice-based research methods, and provides students with the creative, artistic, intellectual and theoretical foundation upon which they can build their contributions to this field.

The cross-disciplinary employment of the digital medium as a tool for creative expression and communication is a new field of research that covers the convergence of technology with established and new practices in the fine art, video, film, performance, games, design and online art fields of discipline.

The course encourages the development of critical and original approaches to contemporary creative production and enables students to investigate the influence of new digital technologies in relation to creativity and communication.

The programme provides a framework within which students are prepared for further academic research as wellas integration into the various industries requiring digitalcreativity.

Skills attained will allow graduates to contribute to the development of content in a variety of fields.

They will become eligible for employment in areas with a focus on creative digital media production, such as the video and contemporary arts fields, the graphic design industry and in other fields that increasingly draw upon the creation of new media talent such as those of the audio-visual, gaming, mobile services, social software, and IT.

For more information, e-mail da.maks@um.edu.mt. Apply online at https://esims.um.edu.mt/esims/ipp/appcourses.html .