Master of Performance & Media Arts

The Master of Performance and Media Arts and Postgraduate Diploma in Performance and Media Arts  provide an opportunity to expand the contexts of performance and media arts consciously and critically: to show how performance can intersect and transgress time-based forms of art and to ultimately widen our conceptions of art.

START DATE FEBRUARY 28, 2011
APPLICATION DEADLINE DECEMBER 1, 2010

These qualifications provide unique research and development opportunities for current and future industry practitioners through a collaborative and interdisciplinary model for practice-based research, which responds to the team-based ethos of performance, media arts and emerging creative media industries.
Performance and Media Arts graduates will be recognised internationally as innovative, experimental, and critical. They will be practitioners and researchers who are political, theoretical, and technically capable. They will significantly contribute to the emerging paradigms of performance and media arts through critical enquiry and innovative performative practice in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. Students will ultimately widen the current conceptions of performance and art in a range of cultural and critical contexts. They will demonstrate the ability to engage in a sustained period of research, create innovative and unique performative works for a range of performance events, festivals, exhibitions, symposia, publications and may progress to further study at doctoral level.

WHAT THESE QUALIFICATIONS COVER
Year One
Students take the following papers:
• Space, Sound, Image and Performance
• Emerging Paradigms of Performance
• Performing Bodies
• Interactive Performance and Media Arts
• Research, Context and Methods
• Research Project
Year Two
Thesis Project for students taking the Master of Performance and Media Arts.

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