Art and Technology UCL

Overview

This Art and Technology BA offered by UCL is for a new generation of artists to create art connected to emerging and disruptive technologies, experimenting in new forms of expression, communication and collaboration. It provides you with the chance to explore the power of creative, critical and computational thinking.  

You will learn skills in the following art and technology areas:

• Creative Coding
• Sensing Practices
• Digital Fabrication
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Worlding and Gaming
• Computational Publishing

• Immersive Environments – virtual (VR), mixed, augmented or extended reality 

Careers

As a graduate of the Art and Technology BA programme, you will develop the following skills and attributes to prepare you for a wide range of life and career choices: 

• Learning technical skills, alongside an experimental, imaginative and research approach to fuse contemporary art practice with technology. 
• Demonstrating practical skills and working knowledge of digital technologies, such as creative coding, sensing practices, digital fabrication, artificial intelligence, machine learning, worlding and gaming, computational publishing, and immersive environments. 
• Thinking about the interconnections between art practice and emerging and disruptive technologies and applying them to meet the needs of the creative, cultural and technology sectors. 
• Understanding the ethics and politics involved in the relationship between art and technology, including equality, diversity and inclusion. 
• Creating digital environments that critically engage with issues of class, gender, race and colonialism. 
• Reflective and self-directed learning, key to lifelong and professional learning.