18 November 2024
A new MA, launched in partnership between the Department of Film Studies at King's and the Courtauld Institute of Art, focuses on the intersection of contemporary art and film.
The new MA in Contemporary Art and the Moving Image is now available for applications.
The programme is taught by the Department of Film Studies and the Courtauld Institute of Art, bringing together King’s expertise in film studies and critical theory with the Courtauld’s dedicated specialisms in art history, conservation, and curation.
As film, video, and digital media continue to influence and shape contemporary art, students will engage with an evolving discipline through perspectives provided by art history, film and media studies, exhibitions and curatorial practice, among other fields.
We're teaming up in a unique collaboration between two world-leading institutions, to study at the intersection of two specific fields — of contemporary art and the moving image.
Dr Jeff Scheible, MA Programme Convenor – King's Department of Film Studies
Students will cover artists' moving image practices, experimental cinema, contemporary cinema and digital art, and examine these through various disciplinary and geographical lenses. Students will work alongside the MA History of Art students at the Courtauld and MA Film Studies at King's.
Anyone paying attention to contemporary art can tell you that the artist-moving image is prolific, it's ubiquitous, and it is a central, if not dominant, mode of artistic practice today.
Dr Johanna Gosse, MA Programme Convenor — The Courtauld Institute of Art
The programme is open for September 2025 intake now.
It has been launched in the third year of a 10-year partnership announced between the two institutions in 2022.
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