Focus on developing your creativity and practical skills with a degree designed for the digital age.

The Master of Digital Arts (Advanced) offers a mixture of practical and theoretical courses in key areas of digital media such as, 3D and 2D computer animation, digital visual effects, digital video, digital compositing, interactivity, coding, site-specific projection, on-line design, virtual reality, sound, and hybrid media. As a digital arts student you will have access to the facilities at the ANU School of Art & Design, and be able to develop your own individual and collaborative projects in the context of other researchers at the ANU.

A Master of Digital Arts will advance your career as a practising digital artist, or working as a professional in the arts and new media industries. It also prepares you for further study.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the skills and knowledge to:

1. develop practice-led methodologies through investigation, analysis and synthesis of complex information to plan and execute substantial studio/screen-based creative research projects.
2. generate and evaluate complex ideas and concepts at an abstract level using cognitive, technical and creative skills and relate them to their own creative works and to recent developments in the field.
3. critically reflect upon and evaluate theoretical, conceptual and aesthetic aspects of creative practice and apply it in the production of creative works and/or professionally relevant projects.
4. design and develop creative works, either individually or in collaboration, that communicate theoretical, aesthetic, conceptual and imaginative propositions to specialist and non-specialist audiences.
5. complete a major piece of research in the field of digital arts