Media Art and Creative Technologies

Contemporary culture and economy demand versatile, independent, and capable specialists in digital media and audio-visual arts who can work creatively and productively with a wide range of innovative technologies. The objective of the new doctoral programme to foster such a milieu where the professionals, primed by the academia, in partnership with artistic experts of both universities and partner schools from abroad, will deliver competitive scholars, equipped with diverse skills, knowledge and practical experience in creating artworks as well as in production of creative project management, artistic research, and production of new knowledge.

The joint PhD degree by LiepU and RISEBA is a prerequisite, a crucial milestone, not only for a successful individual career in the labour market for arts, media, innovative technologies, and creative industries as well as for an academic career in higher education. The graduates of the new programme will be well-prepared to take part in shaping contemporary culture in the widest sense of this word, not limited to the potential to work as experts, consultants, policy makers, project evaluators, and initiators of various innovations in numerous local, national, EU, and international organizations.

The programme "Media Art and Technologies", licensed this year, was developed by LiepU and RISEBA, in conjunction with a project financed by EU funds 2.1.0/18/A/010 "Reduction of Fragmentation of Study Programs and Strengthening of Resource Sharing in LiepU", and by attracting foreign experts in support of the previously implemented EEA/Norwegian Financial Mechanism grants that had established Liepaja University's doctoral programme "New Media Arts".

Doctoral programme “Media Art and Creative Technologies” was developed to encourage practice-based doctoral studies in Latvia – as it is elsewhere in Europe. In this innovative programme the academic theoretical research is a basis for artistic creation or practice-based research.

• Higher (Bachelor level) education (a copy of diploma and transcript of records)
• Hold a master's degree in arts and humanities
• Hold a master's degree in a field (sociology, communication and information science, computer science, physics) with interests in creative research and who wish to develop a high level of interdisciplinary practice in media art
• IELTS minimum overall grade of 5.5 or TOEFL iBT / paper based or English language profiency letter