Collaboration
We believe that collaboration is an important aspect of creative thinking and production. The considered and attentive process of collaboration, of working towards a shared goal can be exhilarating both conceptually and practically. Collaborating can be very powerful, it can encompass many methods and ideas, question the role of art, it can form social structures across or within geographical boundaries. It can develop creative practices further, faster and more in-depth. Collaborations may include many producers, people or groups, across many disciplines, ages and geographies.
Media Arts puts creativity at the core of collaboration alongside the facilitation of new ideas and practices. Each student works with a local, national or international institution or individual towards a shared creative outcome, this may be a film, a book, a website, a series of photographs, sound work or other media product. The process of the collaboration includes; creativity, the ability to contribute new objects or forms of cultural production, flexibility; the abilit
y to work with others, to be playful with co-production, negotiation; being confident with expressing ideas and practices, fostering dynamic working relationships and having respect for others ideas and research and context; where the work ‘fits’ in the world, the theoretical or philosophical framework and how their work extends this.
Students are free to find their own collaborators but we also have businesses, organisations and individuals who come to us seeking students to take on opportunities on media related projects. Such work must be fit for the purpose defined by the collaboration, it is therefore out doing real jobs in the world outside of university; a very valuable experience for students soon to face the transition to the world of employment.