MSc Media and Arts Technology

Be part of a new generation of designers, engineers and researchers who are applying digital innovation to the creative sector by combining human-computer interaction with creative computing. This MSc will teach you how to combine world-class technical and creative skills to shape digital transformation and improve lives.

• Be taught by expert academics who are undertaking innovative and world-class research in creative computing.
• Benefit from a flexible and cross-disciplinary programme structure organised around three themes: 1) Sound, Image, and Games, 2) Interaction, Intelligence, and Sensing and 3) Creative Industry.
• Tailor your degree to your interests and choose from a wide variety of technical, practical and business-oriented modules.
• Access to our state-of-the-art facilities including the world-class qMedia Studios, the Materials Processing Lab, MAT equipment and the Electronics Lab.
• Wide range of career opportunities in industry and academia.

Facilities

As a student on MSc Media and Arts Technolgy, you benefit from access to the MAT teaching environment. This includes state-of-the-art facilities and equipment including:

• qMedia Studios (world-class studios for recording and production, performance, and multimodal research)
• Materials Processing Lab (specialised facility for prototyping flexible materials, textile circuits and 3D printing)
• MAT equipment (e.g. for audio, video, lightning, virtual reality)
• The Electronics Lab (computers for dedicated hardware project use, advanced Agilent Oscilloscopes, Power Electronic systems, Microprocessor development tools, state of the art PCB production capabilities)

Students will also have access to dedicated shared workspaces and digital audio workstations.

Career paths

This programme is suited to students who wish to pursue a career in industry or academia, by contributing to the understanding and growth of the creative economy. The skills gained through this programme has enabled our graduates to move into careers such as:

• User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) Designer;
• Interaction Designer;
• Information Architect;
• Data Scientist/Researcher;
• Graphics, Media, and Digital Designer;
• App Developer;
• Research Assistant
• Lecturer
• Creative Consultant.

Career opportunities include technology companies, start-ups, digital agencies, media and broadcast, gaming, digital media, government agencies, health providers, and academia.

Graduate Employers include:

• Alibaba
• State Street Corporation
• TCL Electronics
• Kuajie Tech
• Yunling Tech
• QMUL (PhD)