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Study Details: MA 2 years full-time
MA Art and Science explores the creative relationships at the intersection of art and science in their broadest forms, examined through an evolving interdisciplinary practice. On this course you will investigate new approaches to making and presenting work and explore the different contexts where practice takes place, triangulating between the studio, the laboratory, and the field.
The course questions established forms of knowledge construction and considers interdisciplinarity, co-creation, and knowledge-sharing as inextricable to the imagining of possible futures. It brings together a diverse cohort of students from different disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, foregrounding an integrative approach driven by curiosity, enquiry and research.
On MA Art and Science, you will consider ways to understand, represent and reinterpret the world through your practice. You will question how the immeasurable can be defined; the invisible envisaged; the senses extended, and perceptions tested. The course structure encourages you to investigate and interrogate contemporary and historical systems of knowledge from both art and science contexts.
The relationship between art and science expands the boundaries of understanding and invention and challenges our view of the world. In the current context of multiple complex global challenges, the MA Art and Science foregrounds ethical, philosophical, and practical questions, inviting innovative contributions that embrace the sciences in the broadest sense and explore what it means to be human in a time of extreme change and uncertainty.
We are committed to developing ethical Art & Science practices. To achieve this, we are working to embed UAL’s Principles for Climate, Social and Racial Justice into the course.
The standard entry requirements for this course are as follows:
AP(E)L – Accreditation of Prior (Experiential) Learning
Exceptionally applicants who do not meet these course entry requirements may still be considered. The course team will consider each application that demonstrates additional strengths and alternative evidence. This might, for example, be demonstrated by:
Each application will be considered on its own merit but cannot guarantee an offer in each case.
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Our Postgraduate Art Programme offers valuable opportunities to build transferable professional knowledge and skills. The exchange of perspectives with others through shared units, reading groups and debates helps establish stimulating and productive networks.
The focus on proposing and developing a major independent programme of study is supported by a shared professional practice lecture series featuring guest speakers plus opportunities to attend symposia and critique work in progress across subject areas. The Postgraduate Art Programme has wide-ranging links with professional organisations, collections and galleries, and includes opportunities for interaction and networking according to your personal career direction.
MA Art and Science graduates will be able to enhance communications and creative exchange between areas of art and the sciences, participate effectively in creative projects with an interdisciplinary perspective, work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams, and exercise initiative and personal responsibility in advancing research skills and subject knowledge as well as in managing their career or further studies. With these attributes and the abilities that underpin them, MA Art and Science graduates will be attractive to organisations that value creative thinking and the effective communication of ideas. They'll also have the potential to develop their interest at research degree level.
Unit 1: Enquiry Through Interdisciplinary Practice
In this unit, through a series of projects and experimentation, you will explore emerging discourses in art and science, complemented by practical workshops and introduction to cultural venues and collections relevant to art and science. Teaching is delivered through discursive seminars, lectures, workshops and group and individual projects. These provide a critical context for your research and practice and address different approaches to research methods and to making.
Unit 2: Collaborative Practices for Common Good
This unit provides opportunities for cross-course creative and collaborative practices in relation to global challenges. The unit explores a range of thematic, experimental, and applied approaches to cross-disciplinary research, enquiry, and knowledge exchange. The aim is to establish a framework for co-operation and social responsibility across the College in relation to our shared values.
Unit 3: Independent Project: Developing Interdisciplinary Practice
Unit 3 explores the relationship between research and practice. You will conduct a focused investigation into a self-identified area of enquiry, leading to a research paper, the development of practical artwork and a proposed study plan for Unit 4.
In this unit you will build a body of knowledge to support your area of enquiry and outline a critical context in which to situate your practice. Intentions will be articulated for the future direction of a body of resolved work.
Progress is supported through tutorials, critiques, seminars, external visits, and student-directed group discussions. You will have a personal academic tutor who will guide the progress of your focused research. Sessions are designed to support experimentation and reflection, helping to set the agenda for your work in Unit 4.
Unit 4: Independent Project: Realising Interdisciplinary Practice
In the final unit, you will be supported in the production of a body of self-directed work building on developments from previous units. You will engage audiences through diverse means of public dissemination and presentation. Seminars relating to continuing professional practice will offer guidance for your future development post graduation. Tutorials will enable you to review progress toward achieving your goals. This unit asks you to consider different forms of dissemination for your work and includes the possibility of collaborating with students or others to prepare and curate your work for presentation and a public audience in the final show.
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