The BA / BSc(Hons) Digital Art & Technology degree (formerly known as MediaLab Arts) is best understood as a metaphor...
Digital Art & Technology is a car crash between two vehicles traveling at extraordinary speeds that takes four years to happen. In one car are internationally recognised computer scientists able to teach programming and control of visual media.
In the other are artists, musicians, theorists and designers who are determined to reinvent how art, language and human beings are represented in the 21st century.
Miraculously everyone walks away from the crash unscarred, and from the wreckage emerges a software artist able to operate at an exceptionally creative level in both corporate and cultural industries.
"This is one of the best courses in the country, the course is well run by careful and commited staff. There is a good mix of theory and practical work not always achieved in studio based courses. The standards the students reach are high. The University should be proud of this award"
Professor Gillian Crampton Smith 2001 Director of the Institute of Interaction
Design, IVREA Italy.
(formally Course Director of Computer Related
Design MA Royal College of Art, London)
The course is based in the Institute of Digital Art and Technology at the University of Plymouth. I-DAT has an international profile as a centre for excellence in the field of interactive arts. It is delivered by highly skilled interactive arts researchers who are also involved in i-DAT’s Masters and Doctoral programmes.
