[spectre] Call For Applications: Master in Digital Arts - Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona)

[Carmen Platero]

(Apologies for Cross-posting)


Dear all,

We are pleased to send you this information about the XIX edition of our
Master in Digital Arts at Universitat Pompeu Fabra - IDEC for those who
might be interested in interactive art practice and theory in Barcelona.

Our Interdisciplinary Arts Master’s Program is designed for graduate
students, engineers and working adults to explore questions about digital
audiovisual practice and culture within the intersection of the Arts,
Humanities, Science and Technology.

General Goals:

The Master's Degree in Digital Arts aims to contribute to the formation of
audiovisual professionals in different aspects of creative production in
the field of interactive audiovisual communication.


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   To approach both theoretically and experimentally the creative and
   technical aspects of digital media and their role in cultural production.



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   To promote expression through information and communication technologies
   which lead to new visual, musical and interactive art forms.



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   To provide analytic models and tools to explore specific languages
   induced by digital media and particularly, interactive audiovisual
   communication and networking.



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   Master the techniques for generating, processing and editing of images
   and sounds, and various software environments for authoring visual, musical
   and interactive compositions.



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   To understand, to experiment and to create with code, by learning the
   generative, algorithmic and procedural aspects of computer programming as a
   form of creative writing,



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   Encourage the use of digital media for the production of innovative and
   significant works.



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   To train students in the fundamental changes at the formal, conceptual,
   contextual, relational and narrative levels of audiovisual culture that
   occur with the introduction of electronic and digital media.



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   Encourage and promote new  and unconventional forms of human-computer
   interaction, and the creation of physical, tangible, embedded and embodied
   interfaces.



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   To promote contemporary art practices that critically use digital
   technologies to create aesthetic and meaningful experiences. The emphasis
   is on the arts, beyond the hegemonic discourse on media and digital culture.



Objectives:


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   To understand the nature of digital media and the cultural and technical
   aspects that characterize it
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   To learn the role of IT in communication and expression, as well as the
   new visual, musical and interactive forms driven by it.
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   To explore the specific languages created by digitalization,
   particularly focussing on online multimedia communication.
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   To gain a solid command of the techniques used to handle and edit images
   and sound, as well as of several programmes for visual, musical and
   interactive authorship.
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   To understand computer programming, especially as applied to creative
   tasks.
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   To be able to use digital media to produce innovative and meaningful
   pieces of work.


University Pompeu Fabra, has held 17 editions of the Masters’ program in
Digital Arts over the years. This constitutes a solid background.
Throughout these years, over three hundred students have successfully
completed the program, which has allowed them to improve, in most cases,
their capabilities and skills in order to meet the new challenges of their
careers.


Important Information:

Calendar: October 2015 to December 2016

Language: Spanish

Credits: 90 ECTS.

Application deadlines:

5th Application round: deadline  27/04

6th Application round: deadline  25/05

7th Application round: deadline  22/06

More practical information on our official Website
http://www.idec.upf.edu/university-master-in-digital-arts

and on our  Master’s Program in Digital Arts home page
http://digitalmedia.idec.upf.edu/content/m%C3%A1ster-universitario-en-artes-digitales
and Blog http://digitalmedia.idec.upf.edu/blog (Spanish only)

Related information will be spread via our Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Master-Universitario-en-Artes-Digitales-UPF-IDEC/84639883522

and Twitter  https://twitter.com/ArteDigitalUPF social media accounts.


For further information please contact: Info at idec.upf.edu
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