The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Digital Arts programme is a practice-oriented, postgraduate award in digital art practice and theory. The programme is intended to help students significantly enhance their practice, and develop strategies, skills and creative networks to facilitate professional practice and employability.
Through a combination of practical and theoretical modules, the course encourages the development of critical and original approaches to contemporary visual arts and design production and enables students to actively investigate the influence of digital technologies in relation to creativity and communication.
Through a combination of practical and theoretical modules, the course encourages the development of critical and original approaches to contemporary visual arts and design production and enables students to actively investigate the influence of digital technologies in relation to creativity and communication.
The practice-based programme not only encourages innovation, but also endeavours to provide students with the creative, artistic, intellectual and theoretical foundation upon which they can build their contributions to this dynamic field, whilst also preparing them for further academic research, and integration into the various industries requiring digital creativity, such as such as in the video and contemporary arts fields, the graphic design industry as well as in more generalised fields which increasingly draw upon the creation of new media talent such as those of the audio-visual, serious gaming, mobile services, social software, and IT.
The 4-semester programme consists of a series of taught lectures, studio workshops, tutorials, student led seminars and group presentations in the first year of study in Malta (October to June), followed by the production of a project and a written dissertation in the second year, supervised by an academic from the Department of Digital Arts. Students do not have to be resident in Malta during their second year of study.
Final year projects are presented in a degree exhibition at Spazju Kreattiv, Malta’s national Centre for Creativity, which together with the contextual theses explore the evolving roles of the visual creative within contemporary cultural production, giving value to issues of location, site-specificity, audience reception and interaction.
Entry requirements:
A Bachelor’s honours degree at second class or better and a recent portfolio of works.
Further information:
Further information and application procedures can be obtained from the Department of Digital Arts, da.maks@um.edu.mt.
Details about the MFA Digital Arts Programme of Studies are available online.