Digital Art (with Professional Practice Year)

UCAS code: W691

Here's what University for the Creative Arts says about its Digital Art (with Professional Practice Year) course.

If you want to approach fine art from a technological perspective, our BA (Hons) Digital Art degree course at UCA Farnham is the ideal starting place.

On this course you won’t be drawing on tablets – you’ll be exploring digital culture and creating art in response to it. Technology might be your subject, your medium, or both: you could use VR headsets to create a virtual experience, or build a sculpture out of them! And with access to the full scope of facilities across the Farnham campus, you’ll have endless possibilities for thought-provoking work.

With the skills and collaborative confidence, you’ll develop during your studies, you could choose a career as an artist, or move into areas like digital content creation. Our graduates have gone on to become successful YouTube creators like PJ Ligouri (KickThePJ), and TikTok influencers.

This course includes a Professional Practice Year. This will give you the opportunity to develop your professional, academic and personal potential, equipping you to be confident and engaged in creative workplaces. Employers widely recognise these qualities, and a significant proportion of placement students are offered graduate-level jobs or go onto postgraduate study.

Related courses

• BA (Hons) Fine Art - Canterbury (with Professional Practice Year)

• BA (Hons) Fine Art - Farnham (with Professional Practice Year)

In Year 1 you'll learn the fundamental digital skills in still and moving image through practical projects, and develop your contextual and research skills for creative work. You’ll learn the key skills for production through workshops, screenings and seminars, and practical exercises. Also, you’ll explore a range of key concepts central to an understanding of historical and contemporary moving image visual culture, from celluloid film to games and digital media. In Year 2 you'll critically examine the emerging theoretical and aesthetic debates associated with new media technologies and their relationship with more traditional visual cultures. In Year 3 you'll research , propose and undertake pre-production work for your final project. You'll produce a fully resolved body of work, and also a dissertation on a subject related to the contextual and/or theoretical concerns of your area of practice.