Description and philosophy

Lens-based media share the lens as a central tool. Whether the lens is physically crafted out of glass and metal, or a digital lens crafted from code, its core function, effect, and conceptual significance, remain the same.

The convergence of previously distinct analogue imaging media into a single digital workflow has allowed new forms of analysis and practice: digital lens-based images are highly plastic, it is possible to re-shape them in radical new ways along the axes of both time and space.

This Masters programme will be a stimulating and supportive context for your development as an innovative creator of distinctive moving and still images.

Streaming media, gallery installations, mobile-phone movies, cross-media narratives combining feature film and game projects, DVDs, database film technologies, moving image billboards displays, site-specific projection projects: you will be encouraged to create work for a range of new forms and delivery platforms.

The course’s mixture of critical research, development of new technical approaches, and sustained project work is designed to give you the opportunity to develop the original portfolio of work you will need to succeed in today’s highly competitive media environments.