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Study Details: 2 years, low residency
MA Fine Art Digital at Central Saint Martins supports a broad range of experimental art practices. It will test and challenge your work, bringing it into a contemporary critical context. Our research-based teaching strategies actively seek to extend your experience and skills. We work responsively to your changing needs as individuals. We also encourage collaborative projects in relation to your work.
Students on MA Fine Art Digital work in many media – including painting, sculpture, print, installation, time-based and digital. Students will critically explore and engage with social, racial, and environmental issues, while negotiating complex cultural and artistic perspectives in the development and creation of their work. Here, art-making is a testing ground for ideas and media. Artists who study with us are open to change – not just in expanding their practices – but also in creating new positions. Our focus is on bringing your work to the critical scrutiny of the academic setting. Through these interactions, you will develop your individual research into a confident, sustained practice.
What to expect
A supportive but challenging space for investigating your creative practice: a track record of innovative teaching and flexible structure designed for widely accessible learning, allows students to engage from incredibly diverse settings. This offers the enriching experience of collectively exploring what art is in a digital environment. Whatever media you are investigating, the opportunities afforded by the online space are broad and exciting.
We select applicants according to potential and current ability in the following areas:
Central Saint Martins’ MA Fine Art: Digital graduates go on to work in a wide range of settings, with many now self-employed and regularly exhibiting their work in galleries, festivals or running their own creative businesses.
Other alumni work in the wider creative industries as creative directors, designers, photographers, videographers or educators. In an uncertain world, thinking like an artist offers a way of being comfortable with ambiguity and develop a deep awareness of all that is around us. These, among other qualities, are vital skills for the future.
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MA Fine Art Digital supports the development of your thinking and practice. Teaching includes personal tutorials, group critiques, seminars and lectures. Teaching is delivered online in a flexible and adaptable model.
Alongside the regular online sessions there will be the opportunity to engage with some intensive in-person learning activities. Each year there will be a mandatory 1 week short residency of making and study workshops based in London during the Spring term. In addition, students will also have the opportunity to take part in the final year Showcase.
In Unit 1, you will develop a study statement which gives direction to your practice. You will start and maintain a reflective blog that documents and evaluates your practice-based research. This will form the framework for how you will develop your work in Unit 2.
The emphasis of Unit 2 is a combination of ambitious practical work and a deepening awareness of the context of your work within a community of practice. This is evidenced in the ongoing use of your reflective blog and active involvement in group discussions. You will also write a research paper which contextualises your practice. Collectively, this forms the foundation for your work in Unit 3.
During Unit 3, your focus will be on resolving your work in relation to your study statement with a wider contextual understanding. You will present your research as part of a symposium and your practical work in a public exhibition. Consideration will be given to your future practice and personal and professional development.
Important note concerning academic progression through your course:
If you are required to retake a unit you will need to cease further study on the course until you have passed the unit concerned. Once you have successfully passed this unit, you will be able to proceed onto the next unit. Retaking a unit might require you to take time out of study, which could affect other things such as student loans or the visa status for international students.
CSM Academic Support is delivered by a team of academics and practitioners working alongside your course to help you progress and achieve your maximum potential as a student. Academic Support can help you to develop your skills in different areas, including critical thinking, research and writing, time management, presentations and working independently and collaboratively. These may be offered as part of your timetabled classes or as bookable tutorials and workshops.
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