Art and Emerging Technologies MA

Course summary

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.

You’ll be encouraged to consider technologies as an integral part of the creative process, embarking on a journey of exploration and seeking out innovative directions to expand and enrich your practice. This might include collaborating with technology, harnessing the potential of human-computer interactions, crafting narratives through transmedia techniques, fostering audience engagement and participatory cultures, creating interactive objects, and constructing and transforming physical and digital spaces.

Studio practice and labs allow for the inventive use of advanced technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality, geolocation technologies, virtual production, photogrammetry, physical computing, creative coding, sensor technologies, wearable innovations, interactive environments, and the creative application of artificial intelligence.

The course responds to the demands of the creative industry for versatile, imaginative, and technologically adept arts graduates and places a strong emphasis on professional skills. Through core modules and a year-long Professional Practice module, you will engage in real-world projects that challenge the practices and conventions of digital arts and creative media. You’ll create work for various audiences, platforms, and contexts, collaborate with communities and networks, and tackle real-world briefs and industry challenges.

Learn more about the course and why you should choose to study at Westminster in the Art and Emerging Technologies MA and the Global Contemporary Art MA – Q&A with academic, Elizabeth Allen blog.

Top reasons to study with us

• Fantastic location – You'll enjoy all the benefits of studying at our Harrow Campus – just a 20-minute tube ride from Central London, a global hub for the creative and technology industries
• Facilities – You’ll have access to industry-level facilities including the Emerging Media Space, computer labs, photographic green screen and film studios, editing suites, 3D workshops, 2D print and photographic printing and darkroom facilities
• Informed by CREAM the course has been developed by the research of the University’s CREAM Research Centre (Centre for Research in Arts and Media). Our global network gives you access to professional production and public engagement opportunities, from exhibition and performance to online platforms and film screenings
• Choose your own path – this course supports rigorous experimentation and ‘creative play’ as a means of communicating, discovering and developing insights. You’ll be supported to develop flexible approaches to your chosen area of specialism

The range of potential careers is very broad depending upon your area of practice, but this course will prepare you for potential roles in a range of present and future industries within the creative industries, policy, public and third sectors and education, including:

• Arts administration and advocacy
• Audio and video production
• Collection management and archives
• Creative computing
• Digital art and installation
• Digital arts practice
• Digital curation
• Education, academia and research
• Exhibition curation and production
• Experimental film
• Immersive filmmaking
• Independent arts practice
• Interactive and immersive storytelling
• Interactive cinema and documentary
• Motion graphics
• Museums and galleries
• Projection mapping and interaction design for live events
• Public policy