Mediastudies (research)

Media, Art and Performance Studies is an interdisciplinary and internationally oriented research-based programme which offers an advanced training in academic research skills appropriate for today's highly dynamic and interdisciplinary field of media, visual arts and performance.
As a student of this programme, you will be introduced to and specialise in new research areas and methodologies, necessary for investigating emerging media, performance and contemporary art forms within today's rapidly changing culture. In relation to this you will also reflect on the role of the Humanities in both academic and public debates.
Central concerns in the programme are:


the role and meaning of (visual) media in a mediatised society, inter- and transmedial practices in theatre, dance, film, television, digital media and visual arts

spectator- and usership, the performative turn in contemporary arts and media

technology, materiality and corporeal literacies

game, play and activism

changing institutions, mobile and/or location-based media, urban interfaces, navigational screen-based practices

art and media ecologies