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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are pleased to send you this information about the XVIII edition of our Master in Digital Arts at IDEC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) for those who might be interested in interactive art practice and theory in Barcelona. </span></p>
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<br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Calendar: October 2014 to December 2015 </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Credits: 90 ECTS.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General Goals</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 1: To approach both theoretically and experimentally the creative and technical aspects of digital media and their role in cultural production.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 2: To promote expression through information and communication technologies which lead to new visual, musical and interactive art forms.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 3: To provide analytic models and tools to explore specific languages induced by digital media and particularly, interactive audiovisual communication and networking.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 4: Master the techniques for generating, processing and editing of images and sounds, and various software environments for authoring visual, musical and interactive compositions.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 5: To understand and to experiment with code especially as applied to generative, algorithmic and procedural aspects of computer programming as a form of creative writing,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 6: Encourage the use of digital media for the production of innovative and significant works.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 7: To train students in fundamental change at the formal, conceptual, contextual, relational and narrative levels of audiovisual culture that occur with the introduction of electronic and digital media.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 8: Encourage and promote new forms of human-computer interaction, and the creation of physical, tangible, embedded and embodied interfaces.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Goal 9: To promote contemporary artistic practices using digital technologies to express aesthetic and critical forms of discourse. The emphasis is on the arts, beyond the hegemonic discourse on media and digital culture.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Teaching methodology includes lectures, seminars and practical work under the supervision of a tutor. Being an intensive face to face program, attendance, is strongly recommended, as it constitutes a fundamental part of our university education. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Students are assessed for the 1st Term (core modules, 286 hours) through final examinations in February; and for the 2nd Term (optional modules, 200 hours) in June. In some cases, professors may choose to set various activities (workshops, projects, mockups, hands-on discussions, etc.) throughout the year which, if successfully completed, can complement or replace the final examination. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As part of the curriculum, each student must complete 200 hours work in our professional practice program. For this purpose, our partners include some of the most relevant institutions and creative arts organizations and innovative industrial companies in Barcelona such as Macba, Hangar.org, Barcelona Media, MediaEstruch, CCCB, Phonos Foundation, Voctrolabs or ReacTable Systems.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Final Master's Project (186 hours) is coordinated and supervised by a tutor chosen by the student from the academic staff. It consists of an original piece of creative work with which the students demonstrate they have effectively acquired the creative and technical knowledge and skills taught throughout the course. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information in English please visit: </span><a href="http://www.idec.upf.edu/university-master-in-digital-arts" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.idec.upf.edu/university-master-in-digital-arts</span></a><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">or contact <a href="mailto:info@idec.upf.edu">info@idec.upf.edu</a> </span></p>
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