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Description of the title
The Master’s Degree in Visual Arts and Multimedia is a public and official Master’s Degree in Fine Arts (MFA) that responds to the current impact of information technologies and the creative potential implied by the programs of generation, treatment and technical manipulation of the digital-image in artistic creation. These changes are transforming the modes of production and dissemination of artistic practices, merging with other professional and economic sectors of the information field, where the image, the visual, takes a relevant role, increasingly important. In this new context, the figure of the artist appears as a researcher, integrated in interdisciplinary teams, as a producer of innovation, with the capacity to have a direct impact on the development of contemporary knowledge societies. For all these reasons, the orientation of the master’s degree is academic and research-oriented.
Objectives of the degree
Main objective
To train researchers / artists with the ability to plan and solve visual arts and multimedia projects in an interdisciplinary way, focusing on the creative, conceptual, technical and reflective aspects; combining the critical sense of the humanities with the techno-scientific applications of digital culture, so that at the end of the master’s degree students can integrate responsibly in the social context as researchers aware of the impact of ICT in contemporary society.
Specific objectives
Apply the research methodologies of the Visual Arts and Multimedia to generate new contributions to the lines of research (ACTS) that make up the Master, as well as participate in R+D+I applied research projects.
To encourage experimentation with new ideas, genres, models and technologies that may arise from the fundamentals of multimedia art from an interdisciplinary approach in the field of Art-Science-Technology-Society (ACTS).
To provide students with methodological instruments that facilitate their continuing education.
To integrate in interdisciplinary teams for the development of projects related to the cultural and creative industries (CCI).
Contextualize multimedia artistic practice and its impact on the social environment: in areas such as public art and the media.
Career opportunities
The professional opportunities of this degree cover diverse areas in the field of art, science and technology.
- Multimedia artist
- Researchers in art, science and technology
- Professionals in the creative and cultural industries.
Aimed primarily at
This program is designed for graduates interested in furthering their education in the field of visual arts and multimedia.
- Graduates in Fine Arts
- Audiovisual Communication
- Computing
- Architecture
- Art History
- Philosophy
- Graduates of the Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño (School of Art and Design)
Structure of the master’s program
Credits: 90 ECTS
Mandatory:70 ECTS |Electives:5 ECTS |External internships:0 ECTS |Final Master’s thesis (TFM):15 ECTS
Module 1. Interdisciplinary Training Module :42 ECTS mandatory
Subject:Methodology
Minimum credits: 9 | Character: Compulsory
Subject:Art, culture and technology
Minimum credits: 16 | Character: Compulsory
Subject:Digital Art and Multimedia
Minimum credits: 17 | Character: Compulsory
Module 2. Specific Training Module: 25 ECTS mandatory
Subject:Interactive Art
Minimum credits: 25 | Character: Compulsory
Module 3. Professional complements: 3 ECTS mandatory
Subject:Professional complements
Minimum credits: 3 | Character: Compulsory
Module 4. Professional Practice: 5 ECTS electives
Subject:Professional Practice
Minimum credits: 5 | Character: Elective
Note: In this subject a maximum of 5 ECTS can be carried out in external curricular internships (the syllabus contemplates a maximum of 5 ECTS for external curricular internships).
Module 5. Master’s Thesis Module: 15 ECTS final degree project
Subject:Master’s thesis
Minimum credits: 15 | Subject: Final Degree Project
Research and access to Ph.
Lines of research of the master’s degree: ART, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY.
- Sound and music
- Interactive environments and interface design
- Prototyping and electronic and digital manufacturing
- Mixed Reality (VR/AR)
- Mobile devices
- Activism and critical interfaces
- Ecology and media
- Gender studies
- Scientific image
- Media archeology
- Moving image studies
- Performance and scenic spaces
- Experimental video games
- Networks and collaborative environments
Research groups
The departments are the bodies responsible for coordinating the teaching of one or more areas of knowledge and for supporting the teaching or research initiatives of the faculty. And as support for research, they encourage the creation of groups and promote R+D+I projects and activities through the Research and Innovation Groups.
- Intermedia Creations Lab Group. LCI
- Light Laboratory Group
- Urban Space and Gender Technologies Group
- Laboratory of Artistic Creation and Thought
Academic exchange / agreements with other universities
The Master in Visual Arts and Multimedia, maintains mobility agreements (students and professors) with other European masters of recognized prestige such as:
- Interface Culture MA – Kunst Universität of Linz (Linz -Austria)
- PostDigital Lutherie MA – Kunst Universität of Linz (Linz -Austria)
- European Media Studies MA – Universität Potsdam (Berlin, GE)
- Media Art + Design MA – Bauhaus Universitat Weimar, GE
- Media Studies MA – HBK Braunschweig, GE
- Communication, Media, Sound and Interaction design MA- FH Joanneum Gesellschaft MBH (Graz-Austria)
- Cinemá et Audiovisual MA Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée_x0003_(Paris, France)
- Visual Communication MA – Technological University Dublin (Ireland)
- Intermedia MA – Uniwersytet Artystyczny (Poland)
- Digital Arts MA – Australian National University (Australia)
- New Media Arts MA – National Taiwan University of Arts (Taiwan – China)
Facilities and laboratories
The Department of Sculpture of the UPV has 6 free spaces for the presentation of multimedia projects and the exhibition of works of the students of the department and of the masters in which it is involved.
Four of them (25 square meters each) are equipped with technical ceiling (trushes), and three of them can communicate to form a single open space of more than 75 square meters. The other two spaces are 15 square meters each.
Likewise, the sculpture department provides its students with all its audiovisual material (LCD projectors, video players, spotlights, sound monitors, etc.) and the necessary technical advice for the successful completion of the work.
Master’s Thesis
The Master’s Final Project consists of the realization of an original project in which the knowledge and skills acquired during the teaching period and especially the specific competencies associated with the TFM subject are demonstrated:
- Conduct research projects in multimedia art.
- Ability to generate, plan and develop multimedia artistic projects.
- Ability to communicate and disseminate multimedia artistic projects.
- To know the different phases involved in the realization of a multimedia project.
- To know the specific vocabulary of digital media related to the field of art.
As well as transversal competencies:
- Innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.
- Knowledge of contemporary problems.
- Planning and time management.
The originality of the work must be understood without detriment to the fact that it may be an independent and individual part of an integral work developed jointly by students from the same degree or from different degrees.
It may have a professional or research orientation; any of the official languages of the UPV may be used in its writing: Spanish, Valencian or English.
SDG Note: We remind you to make a specific reflection on the relationship of the student’s work with the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). This specific conclusion should appear at the end of the paper, behind the conclusions or as specific SDG conclusions in the conclusions section.
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Evaluation
The evaluation will be carried out after the defense of the TFM in a public act, within the academic year in which the student is enrolled, before a tribunal formed by 3 members, all of them professors of the Master, who will be appointed by the Academic Committee of the Master.
The evaluation will mainly consider the fulfillment of the specific and transversal competences associated to the subject TFM as well as the evaluation criteria of the report presented 35%, the project carried out 45% and the presentation 20%.
The complete UPV TFM regulations can be consulted online at the Student Services.
