MA Digital Media Arts
Why choose Herts?
- Excellent Reputation: 1st in the UK for Best Creative School and 16th worldwide (The Rookies Top Global Creative Schools, 2024)
- Industry-Focused Content: Experiment and explore emerging digital technologies including AR, VR, and social and interactive media used in industry to develop innovative digital practices and media.
- Work-Related Learning: There are work related learning opportunities on this course, all students complete a live external brief as part of their coursework.
Professional Accreditations
We are a Rookies Certified School.
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About the course
This MA Digital Media Arts degree will enable you to...
- study one or more digital specialisms including video, kinetics, animation, sound, games, photography, social and interactive media
- choose to study parts of this course online or on campus (home students only)
- experiment and explore emerging technologies and develop innovative and effective combinations of practices and media
- develop high-level skills in your chosen specialisms or areas of interest supported by expert tutors
- project-based work where the emphasis is on the creative, informed application of new technologies and devices to produce compelling user experiences
- produce a substantial self-initiated digital media project supported by excellent resources and expertise.
Why choose this course?
Digital media is everywhere in the modern world, affecting all aspects of our lives, our work, leisure and social and personal relationships. The MA Digital Media Arts award allows students to gain practical experience and knowledge of the ways that a range of contemporary digital media are produced and used, both alone and in combination. Working in one or more specialisms which can include video, kinetics, animation, games, photography, social and interactive media, students are encouraged to experiment with combinations of media through digital ‘sketches’ and then, through developing more extended works informed by their individual interests, to pursue a substantial, practical enquiry into an original creative application of digital media in a major project.
Students typically explore areas such as interactive advertising, responsive objects and environments, networked information and social-media systems, interactive video, live performance technology and digital art installations.
What will I study?
The course is delivered through a mix of seminars, lectures and tutorials by an expert, specialist, teaching team. As a digital media arts student, you will produce a range of practical projects and gain skills in a variety of technologies and systems while at the same time developing your knowledge of current developments and practices across the digital media field. For your master’s degree project, you will specify and then produce a substantial digital media artefact which reflects your own interests and career plans. We particularly encourage experimentation and cross-disciplinary projects including those that seek to redefine the ambitions, functions and social organisations that digital media can support. During the course, some students will participate in selected undergraduate technical classes in addition to their masters study so that they can update or develop specific skills. Professional, theoretical and critical skills are also taught alongside the technical and design content through the use of academic blogs and presentations.
All students on this programme engage in an interdisciplinary project as a part of their MA study, giving them an opportunity to work with students from other disciplines in an experimental and creative way.
Key staff
Dr Ian Willcock
Award Leader, MA Digital Media Arts
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Saint Walker
Programme Leader, PG Media
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Further course information
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Sandwich placement or study abroad year |
n/a |
Applications open to international and EU students |
Yes |