This Masters course is an invitation to students to join a research project that’s exploring and defining what art is in the digital age.
It is offered both as a studio based course in London and as a fully online course with students spread across the globe.

Art that crosses boundaries

This course is about art that engages with, uses and is impacted by ‘the digital’. Instead of a narrow definition of the digital environment, we explore the breadth of this as yet undefined medium. Fine art is traditionally painting, sculpture, printmaking as well as performance arts, but digital technologies makes connections not previously possible, it blurs and breaks the boundaries between disciplines. This course is an invitation to students to come and join a research project that that is exploring and defining what art is in a digital age.

Being part of the wider postgraduate community at Camberwell College of Arts, with the opportunity to interact with other subjects, significantly enriches the experience for students. This helps the development of research skills and offers enhanced opportunities for career development. There is also a shared lecture programme, which draws upon the wide variety of research across the university as well as from prominent guest speakers.

‘Face-to-face’ studio based mode in London:

There are also opportunities for students to engage with projects across the university and other significant institutions. There have been projects, seminars and symposiums with the Victoria and Albert Museum, the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) London, Peckham Space, FACT Liverpool, Goldsmiths University of London, onedotzero and galleries from China to Brazil. Recent students had the opportunity to contribute to joint symposiums with both the University of Greenwich, London and Shanghai University, China. Several students have been awarded AHRC funding.

Online mode:

This is an award winning mode enables students to take advantage of masters study wherever they are in the world.

Just as with the face-to-face pathway, online students can engage with research across the university by interacting with prominent researchers, watching lectures and taking part in online seminars. Many students also contribute to exhibitions and events in their own cities and countries. The diversity of both the online and face-to-face pathways add significantly to the richness of the course. Students have studied online from a wide variety of countries from North and South America, right across Europe, several Middle Eastern countries and South and East Asia.

The pathway does not focus on technology, but presents it as a tool to facilitate ideas, placing emphasis upon its creative use. You will be required to research, then contextualise and develop your project proposal into a final piece of work. Staff with backgrounds in many aspects of the digital medium will advise and help develop your projects, encouraging confidence in your own digital skills and ideas. Further experimentation with the communicative aspects of Digital Arts is offered by collaborative presentations with students from the online version of this course. The students who apply are varied: artists, architects and graphic designers all bring different ideas to the course. We aim to help realise your ideas and to develop a context for your work.

During the final development and completion of your personal programme attention is given to personal focus, artistic direction and application. The final work is presented in the form of a public exhibition at the College.

This programme of work is supported, negotiated and supervised throughout the course by specialist academic staff in workshops, individual tutorials, seminars and lectures. Staff and student-led seminars promote debate and work-in-progress sessions allow for supportive critique.

Studies are complemented by lectures, seminars and workshops designed to help you develop wider contextual understanding, research skills and awareness of professional issues.

Graduates go on to work a wide range of settings. Many are self employed regularly exhibiting their work in galleries and festivals or running their own creative businesses. Others work in the wider creative industries as creative directors, designers, photographers, videographers or educationalists. The digital is transforming all creative work and is creating new work opportunities not imagined just a few years ago.

• An Honours Degree or equivalent academic/professional qualifications.
• Portfolio of supporting work.
• Study Proposal.
• Applicants whose first language is not English must show proof of IELTS level 6.5 and a minimum of 5.5 in reading, listening, writing and speaking. The University also accepts other tests. Please see the University English tests page for the equivalent scores required in these tests.
• The College takes into consideration prior learning, alternative qualifications and experience.

How to Apply

Home/EU students

CCW Graduate School Application Form 2012 (doc)

Completed forms, including your study proposal, reference & portfolio (if required) can be returned by post to:
CCW Graduate School Admissions
16 John Islip Street
London
SW1P 4JU

Or you can submit your form electronically to ccwgraduateschool@arts.ac.uk

Guidelines for electronic submission (doc)

International students
Please visit the CCW International Apply page to download an application form or contact the CCW International Office.
T: +44 (0)20 7514 1852
E: ccwinternational@arts.ac.uk

Application Deadlines
UK & EU applicants: 2 July 2012
International: No official deadline, but you are advised to apply as soon as possible.

What happens next?
Applications will be reviewed against the entry requirements and selection criteria for the course. You may then be invited to attend an interview at the College on a set day, with your full portfolio if applicable.

Scholarships and bursaries

The Caspian Arts Foundation Scholarship - for students from the Middle East and North Africa.