The graduate of the Study Programme MAPs demonstrates
Making, Performing, Designing, Conceptualising
• Artistic methodologies and projects that contribute to the field of materials in art and design and dynamic archiving operating at the forefront of the work field.
• A body of work which is rooted in and can be related to a personal artistic vision and system (consisting of a personal set of artistic goals, sources of inspiration and theoretical starting points).
Experimenting, Innovating & Researching
• The ability to gather meaningful material and sources relevant to the graduate’s own artistic practice, by means of a well-documented research process.
• Results of experimental and practice-based investigations into methods, devices and concepts that critically examine the mediated relationship with society .
• The ability to independently investigate the graduate’s own content (motives, topics, and themes), used technology or working methods for the purpose of developing the work.
Theories, Histories & Cultures
• The ability to position, by means of a written thesis, the graduate’s own artistic practice in relation to existing and new theories and ways of thinking concerning the related and developing practices of materials and archiving, as well as to broader cultural, social, and theoretical contexts relevant to the work.
• The ability to contribute with the developed work and thesis to professional knowledge concerning the related and developing practices of materials in art and design and archiving in particular, and to the international art practice in general.
Technical, Environmental & Contextual Issues
• The ability to deal with technical and material issues in the realisation and presentation of the Graduation Programme in such a way that technical issues are no obstacle to the creation, realisation, and expression of the graduate’s own artistic concept.
• Full awareness of and ability to work with site-specific and other environmental and contextual issues in the presentation of the Graduation Programme
Re-thinking, Considering & Interpreting the Human
• The ability to reflect critically, both in the thesis and in a public presentation, on:
• the semantic possibilities of the graduate's own body of work;
• the personal working methods and development;
• overcoming problems of stagnation in the working overall process;
• the way technology can be used and artistically explored to interpret, imagine, and change the human interaction with a transforming world.
Communication, Collaboration & Inter-disciplinarity• The ability to present the graduation work in a careful and well-considered manner in a public presentation.
• The ability to present an artistic vision in a written and illustrated thesis using a form that is appropriate to the work and research framework.
• The ability to discuss and indicate in clear terms, both verbally in a public presentation and in writing through the thesis
• the artistic choices;
• the artistic aims and theoretical starting points of the personal body of work;
• the desired position to adopt regarding general and professional audiences.
Initiative & Enterprise
• Taking full responsibility for the development, realisation, and presentation of the Graduation Programme.