Digital Art Curatorship

The Official Master’s Degree in Digital Art Curatorship propose a specialty in the field contemplating the following basic goals:

• Training in the field of exposition curatorship and cultural events, cultural management, art theory and art criticism, especially in areas surrounding new media (electronic art, media art, multimedia creation, internet, among others).
• Providing current knowledge about conceptual, formal, technical and specialized knowledge for the creation, the planning, the design and the executing of productions, research, critical thinking and aesthetic sensibility.
• Propitiating access to the contemporary art circuit oriented towards technology, through the knowledge of the most important institutions and circulation spaces, bringing to the forefront the ephemeral events that nowadays are an interactive gathering space for the public, the artists and the theorists.
• Teaching the techniques and methods needed for the elaboration of complex projects with professional solutions, potentiating the relationships among peers and teamwork.
• For those students who want to carry out doctorate studies, supply the needed methodological competences for research in Humanities, in particular in art and design.

Title: Official Master’s Degree in Digital Art Curatorship from the Ramon Llull University

Credits: 60 ETCS (46 ECTS compulsory and 14 ECTS optative)

Duration: 1 academic year

Language: Spanish

Location of studies: Barcelona Campus (Passeig de Gràcia 114, pral.) and Sabadell Campus (Marquès de Comillas 81-83)

Starting date: November 2020.

Classes are taught on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 18:30 to 21:30 h.

The Digital Art Curatorship graduate complements historical perspectives with practical and theoretical knowledge from digital culture and new technologies, in order to perform, alternatively, in artistic, distribution and reflection circuits.

• Organization of artistic, ludic or educational activities.
• Development of multimedia presentations and expositions in conferences and talks.
• Elaboration of original projects where art and new media converge.
• Event, festival and spectacle organization.
• Criticism specialized in new media.
• Theoretical investigation regarding new artistic and design trends.

This official degree is acknowledged in the entire European Higher Education Area (EHEA). It gives students the opportunity of studying doctorate programs in any university of the European Union, and is recognized for grants, subvention petitions, and public examinations for official areas, and it facilitates the labor insertion in Europe as in the rest of the world.

The I Official Master’s Degree in Digital Art Curatorship offers a mandatory base in critical thinking, aesthetic theory and cultural spaces, being able to pick between a professionalizing option and a researching option, with an emphasis on management and scientific inclination, depending on one or the other specialty.