Course: Media, Materials & Makers credits: 5

Course code
ADVM22MMM1
Name
Media, Materials & Makers
Study year
2025-2026
ECTS credits
5
Language
English
Coordinator
A.M. Slomp
Modes of delivery
  • Action learning
  • Assignment
  • Guest lecture
  • Lecture
  • Peer feedback
  • Problem-based learning
  • Project-based learning
Assessments
  • TEST-01 - Assessment

Learning outcomes

The graduates of the study programme MADtech, Painting, iRAP ans MAP's:
  
Making & Conceptualising  
  • generate ideas, develop artistic processes and prototypes, contributing to collaborative research plans.   
  
Experimenting, Innovating & Researching   
  • develop artistic experiments that provide new approaches, awareness and insight to the research group.  
  • gain an understanding of existing (artistic) research in domains studied for the course and the current debate on ‘research in the arts’  
  • develop an investigative attitude in relation to their own and shared artistic practice(s).   
  • experience that and how their artistic making has the potential of being a research method in interdisciplinary settings  
  Theories, Histories & Cultures  
  • gain knowledge of the methods, materials and media in the arts, especially related to current developments e.g., where the field changes under the influence of the digitisation and technology.   
  • select and investigate issues from knowledge domains relevant to the artistic research at hand.  
  • connect to art-historical, art-theoretical, philosophical or other discursive contexts in the artistic research and reflection on it.  
  
Technical, Environmental & Contextual Issues  
  • deal with technical and material issues in the realisation and presentation of the research project in such a way that technical issues offer no impediment to the creation, realisation and expression of the artistic concept.   
  • show awareness of and ability to work with site-specific and other environmental issues in the presentation of the artistic research.  
  • are critically aware of issues at the interface between the interdisciplinary practices of art, media and technology and of the dynamic ways in which these disciplines interact.  
  
Re-thinking, Considering & Interpreting the Human  
  • develop an understanding of how the practice and/or creative work in the international fields of art, media and technology both stems from, and shapes, our humanity.  
  • demonstrate interpretative skills and a distinctive reflection of the human dimension in the intercultural practices of art, media and technology.   
  
Communication, Collaboration & Interdisciplinarity  
  • formulate an artistic research framework in cooperation with others in which artistic, scientific and technological components are combined.   
  • collaboratively formulate a research question/starting point - in relation to an artistic concept, a discursive framework and relevant research method(s).  
  • present this research plan and its first results to an audience in a fitting way.  
  
Initiative & Enterprise   
  • take responsibility for (their own role in) the development, realisation and presentation of a collaborative research project  
  • develop an understanding of how and collaborative artistic research practices -can contribute to creating new ideas, new technologies and/or creative content.   

 

Content

MMM is a collaborative module between the MA Art History and MA Arts, Culture & Media (University of Groningen) and the MAFAD programme of the FMI, focusing on the dynamic interaction between media, materials, and makers as researchers within artistic research. Emphasising collaboration, collective artistic production, and the presentation of artistic research, the course brings together students from the four FMI programmes and the University of Groningen to experiment with different methods, positions, and approaches, exploring the intersection of artistic and scholarly research. Through this process, students exchange concepts, frameworks, perspectives, and methodologies, broadening and deepening their own research practices. The course is structured in two phases: the first consists of lectures, guest lectures, assignments, exercises, and working sessions that lay the foundation for knowledge and collaboration, while the second shifts toward independent and collective research, culminating in a publicly presentable outcome. Instructional methods include action learning, intervision, and a range of lectures, with active participation, attendance, and presentation required to earn 5 ECs.
 

Included in programme(s)

School(s)

  • Minerva Art Academy
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