MA Creative Media Arts: Data and Innovation

Postgraduate

In Bournemouth

£ 7,500 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bournemouth

The MA Creative Media Arts: Data and Innovation is designed to respond directly to your needs as someone with the ambition to build a career in one of the growth sectors in the UK: the creative and cultural industries. The course delivers a unique combination of media art and design methodologies alongside basic management and business analytics, to help you build a successful career or venture within this dynamic sector. The curriculum has been developed in response to important research findings, demonstrating that growth in the wider economy is being driven by a creative sector founded on a fusion between digital technologies, creative practice and the wider arts and humanities. It's what we call the “fusion hypothesis”. Drawing extensively on this concept we have developed a programme that brings the cultures of art, technology and enterprise into new and generative combinations.
With its emphasis on focused innovation and rapid prototyping the course is unusual in combining a critical media arts perspective with a deep understanding and engagement with the business-led dynamics of the creative industries.
The course is delivered in the context of Bournemouth University’s world renowned Faculty of Media & Communication, known for its contacts at the heart of the media industry. The programme has been developed and lead by leading practitioners from media art contributing business-led research and development insights from the design sector aimed at developing advanced enterprise and creative projects. The image at the top of this page was taken at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City and features work entitled Squidsoup by Liam Birtles, one of the senior lecturers on this course, just one example of the international reach our team has in this field.
Studying this Master’s degree is an ideal next step for applicants from both creative media and the arts and humanities, including areas such as graphic design, visual communications, fine art,...

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bournemouth (Dorset)
Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Design
  • Innovation
  • Drawing
  • Art
  • University
  • Industry
  • Media
  • Humanities

Course programme

Course details On this course you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators, technicians and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry. You will work across a varied range of contemporary media fields during this course. Core units Collaborative Media and Innovation Labs: Drawing together practice-led creative workshops and collaborative media and innovation labs, you will develop and interrogate the technical and creative skills needed to produce professional prototypes and proposals for creative markets and the wider cultural context. Media Theory and Creative Media Arts; a History: The unit will provide you with an understanding of the origins, boundaries and influence of the Creative Media Arts drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives to highlight key concerns of practitioners, theorists, art directors, editors and curators. Advanced Creative Media and Data Lab: This unit is designed to integrate the two distinctive approaches to innovation that lie at the heart of the MA. This process is based on establishing a dialectical relationship between the domains of ‘critical media arts’ and the discourse around the creative and cultural industries based on the fusion model. Research in Practice: You will be provided with grounding in the concept and methods of practice-led research that will support you in developing an understanding of and skills needed to rigorously design, conduct, report and evaluate such research. Option units (choose one)* Master's by Project: This unit aims to enable you to synthesise the critical, conceptual, technical and professional skills and understandings required for the production and contextual evaluation of significant and innovative industry-standard projects, exhibitions, events or professional artefact/s. Master's by Academic Paper: You will undertake a bespoke Research Project, which has at its focus a peer-reviewed output, either as an individual or collaborative endeavour. This output should take the form of a paper, or book chapter, of publishable standard and designed for publication your choice. *Please note that option units require minimum numbers in order to run and may only be available on a semester by semester basis. They may also change from year to year. Programme specification Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used. Download the programme specification for MA Creative Media Arts: Data and Innovation. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance.

MA Creative Media Arts: Data and Innovation

£ 7,500 + VAT