Course | M.Phil. in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices at Trinity College Dublin

Applications are now open for the M.Phil. in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices for entry in September 2025.

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Applications for the September 2025 intake will be assessed on a rolling basis. The programme will close for applications when the maximum number of places have been awarded, or at the final deadline on June 30th, 2025 at 5pm (GMT). There are limited places on the course so it is encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Image Credit

Cían Ó Donnchadha; (Against) Transience Manifesto; Video Still; 2025. Presented within the exhibition (Against) Transience; May 8 – 11, 2025; The Arts Technology Research Laboratory (ATRL); Dublin. Exhibiting students: Qin Cai, Rajasee Datta, He Du, Sarah Edwards, Kev Freeney, Enze Jiang, Sneha Joshi, Keith Lindsay, Joan Milburn, Emma Murphy, Cían Ó Donnchadha, Wenhao Shen, Shiwei Tang, Dennis Ukandu, Clare Wang, and Xiao Zhou.

Course Overview

In the M.Phil. in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices at Trinity College Dublin, students critically engage with emergent digital technologies and infrastructures through artistic research and practice. Working across artistic disciplines, students examine diverse topics including augmented and virtual reality, artificial intelligence, interactive design, immersive environments, and urban media interventions. Students customise their programme with a choice of electives ranging from digital scenography to experimental film alongside core modules that draw from 21st century visual art, sound art, interactive art, and new media art, leading to an independent project focused on their own practice or research.

Throughout the programme, students link digital art practices with topical issues, considering the impact of the digital (as constituted by technologies, practices, and cultures) on civic life, urban governance, social interaction, freedom of information, and states of crisis. Through diverse modalities of experiential learning, the programme offers a space for students to probe fundamental questions related to the increasingly blurred territories between public and private space and notions of the self and the collective, and to explore new solutions to issues related to sustainability and social equity on both a local and a global scale.

Applicants

The M.Phil. in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices is for artists, curators, digital media practitioners and researchers looking to critically engage with emergent digital technologies and infrastructures through artistic research and practice. This programme provides an intimate, collaborative environment for students with both practice- and theory-based backgrounds, who are driven to work across different artistic disciplines, and who want to develop highly transferrable skills rooted in critical theory and creative digital technologies. Current students draw together backgrounds including fine art, architecture, product design, exhibition design, experimental music, animation, film, literature, philosophy, theatre, and computer science. The programme does not require any specific technological skillset.

Partnerships

Students will work directly with partners including practicing artists, contemporary arts institutions, urban media studios and global innovation consultancies. These partnerships provide a transdisciplinary foundation that draws together a range of interests, skillsets, values, and ambitions.

Partners for 2025 include:

• Gerard Byrne
• The Douglas Hyde Gallery
• MA Cities (Central Saint Martins)
• AEMI (Artists’ and Experimental Moving Image)
• The Dock (Accenture)
• Algorithm

The School of Creative Arts

Home of the new M.Phil. in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices, Trinity’s School of Creative Arts provides research-led teaching to an international student community at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The School houses the Arts Technology Research Lab (ATRL), an interdisciplinary, postgraduate research centre designed to explore the intersection between emergent fields of arts practice and new technologies. The ATRL draws on the synergies of the School of Creative Arts’ time-based disciplines of Film, Music, and Drama to re-imagine inventive and hybrid artforms in a digitally empowered environment. Both the School of Creative Arts and Trinity provide a liberal environment where independence of thought is highly valued and where all are encouraged to achieve their potential. The college promotes a diverse, interdisciplinary, inclusive environment which nurtures ground-breaking research, innovation, and creativity through engaging with issues of global significance. Located in a beautiful campus in the heart of Dublin’s city centre, Trinity College Dublin is Ireland’s highest ranked university.

Contact & Questions

Dr. Sven Anderson
Assistant Professor in Film
Course Director – M.Phil. in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices
Trinity College Dublin
sven.anderson@tcd.ie

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