Awards
Target Award
Programme Offerings
Full-Time
Educational Aims of the Course
The MA Art in Science programme at Liverpool School of Art and Design facilitates discussions and interactions between subjects that have traditionally been studied in isolation in Higher Education. This provides opportunities for innovation and critical creativity, and encourages students to produce transdisciplinary research that may have a real world benefit to society. The programme provides exciting opportunities for artists and scientists to collaborate across the visual arts and the world of scientific inquiry, and explore the boundaries of art and science. The MA is a studio based programme with collaborative practice and discovery at its core. Students explore the relationship between art and science, including the historical and theoretical connections between art and science as cultures and practices, and understand how these ideas translate into contemporary experiences. The programme encourages students to work across other disciplines and, where appropriate, collaborate with other postgraduate students within the Liverpool School of Art and Design, as well as researchers and practitioners from research groups across LJMU. Access to a number of different research centres and cultural institutions across Liverpool also supports the learning experience. Guest lecturers working across art-science disciplines will expose students to critically engaged making and design practices, and learning from and interacting with globally renowned practitioners and researchers; students will receive a rich and diverse introduction to a range of international collaborative practices that are at the root of cutting edge art-science collaborative research. Learning takes place predominantly through the creative and critical exploration of research focused art-science projects. The programme aims: To make students aware of the practical applications of art in a science context and be guided in understanding how this translates through a sequence of self-initiated projects. To help students define their existing practice and extend its scope and ambition through the development of a series art science projects. To develop new and existing skills, and provide opportunities to apply them within art-science contexts. To provide industry relevant learning and teaching experiences through engagement and collaboration with established internal and external partners, in the fields of science and technology for example, throughout the delivery of the programme. To introduce students to current and emerging practice in relation to a diverse range of historical, theoretical and critical principles. To study themes related to public engagement, research ethics, ethics of display, bioethics/bioart, and working with humans in research. To encourage critical engagement with, and critical evaluation and synthesis of, current art-science concepts, theories and research, to understand research happening in collaborative areas in art and science. To provide a range of learning experiences that will act as critical context for intellectual and professional development within the context of art and science. To develop research skills, relevant approaches to their practice and the critical abilities to support their final project. Enable students to develop critical awareness through group evaluation and group critique. To produce graduates who can apply critical and practical skills, research techniques and understanding in their chosen careers.