Level 9
NCAD
5
HCI Subsidy Funding Available
1 week
€600 or €300*
Our contemporary world is increasingly intertwined with the digital world, as can be seen in the prevalence of digital devices and a networked internet of things in everyday life. This represents new opportunities for creative practitioners to showcase digital work in non-traditional settings, and to creatively and critically respond to these settings.
In this course, learners will be introduced to a range of technical, critical, and creative approaches to producing digital media works that are situated in, and responsive to, everyday social and spatial contexts. Learners will work together to plan and deliver a digital work in a non-traditional setting.
The omnipresence of digital platforms in everyday contexts has become so accepted as to be taken for granted. The wide availability of digital infrastructure offers new possibilities for artistic practice, be it hacking screens in public space, making mobile audio pieces for outdoor contexts, or embedding interactive technology in everyday objects and settings. Globalised digital infrastructure, furthermore, extends our ability to work in contexts far beyond the local. For example, by producing international networked installations, performances, and audio-video streams across vast distances.
In this course, we will collectively map digital platforms in everyday social life, and develop new artistic strategies to repurpose these platforms towards creative and critical ends. We will learn new technical skills and, more importantly, develop our imaginative skills to find new applications for the quotidian technologies that structure the world around us.
This one-week intensive programme focuses on the development of contemporary works for public consumption using digital tools.
It is an opportunity to initiate research and to be guided in the creation of contemporary works to communicate, mediate and disseminate the work of creative practitioners.
Learners will be introduced to a range of digital technologies, critical theories of technology, creative approaches to technology, and the principles of socially engaged and site-specific creative practice using lab based, studio based and experiential tools.
They will have the opportunity to continue with their existing creative practice or develop a new project to challenge, examine and plan for new directional opportunities within the digital realm.
Students on this part-time Professional Certificate will examine the interconnected relationship online platforms have within contemporary art, extended creative fields and beyond.
This module functions as a foundational component within the Creative Futures programme pathways.
Learners will be introduced to a wide range of digital methodologies, including audio and video production, physical computing, net art, haptics, and broadcasting. These will be applied within the disciplines of public art, socially engaged art, interactive art, and installation art. The course will be tailored to students to develop technical skills of interest to them. In addition, students will develop critical thinking and construct social and spatial frameworks around their practice.
Artist, Creative Technologist, Creative Technician
This is a week-long intensive course, running Monday to Sunday in January 10am – 5pm.
Educational Standard
All applicants are expected to present an approved Bachelor degree at minimum level of 2nd class honours (2.2)
Applicants who do not meet the minimum academic entry requirements may be considered on the basis of prior work or learning experience (RPEL). Candidates may be required to pass a qualifying examination set by the relevant department before being accepted to a Masters degree programme. Attendance at selected undergraduate lecture courses at NCAD, together with related written work may be prescribed.
You may apply for the programme if you are currently completing your Undergraduate Degree. NCAD will review the rest of your application If necessary, we can make you a Conditional Offer. When your degree is completed and you send us final transcripts we will upgrade this to a Full Offer.
Essential Supporting Documents
The programme seeks to provide the transversal and specialist skills to equip creative practitioners to work within existing career paths, while also forge new career and creative pathways and learning.
Students will be advised by practitioners working in this field through directed learning including textual, practical and field research practices.
Fees
For information on tuition fees please follow this Link
The fee for this programme is €300 for those eligible for the HCI Miocro-cred funding and €600 for those who don’t meet the eligibility criteria.
CFA Scholarship:
A CFA scholarship encourages the participation of learners from sections of society that are significantly under-represented in higher education by offering one free place on all of our CFA short courses.
Find out if you are eligible to apply HERE
Fill in the CFA@NCAD scholarship application form HERE
NCAD admissions Contact
postgraduate@ncad.ie
CFA contact
Joanna Crawley crawleyj@staff.ncad.ie
Programme coordinator
Kerry Guinan guinank@staff.ncad.ie
Applicants to this course are eligible for Human Capital Initiative HCI Pillar 3 Micro-Credentials Subsidy funding. The subsidy for this course is 50% of the total course costs for eligible learners. Terms & Conditions apply.
