MA Art in Science | Part-time

This module places emphasis on engagement with current debates and issues within contemporary art practice and its relationship with science, through analysis of the concepts, values and debates that inform study and practice in the field. This includes being aware of matters relating to research ethics (including consent, confidentiality, data protection); the ethics of display; bioethics; and working with vulnerable people and human materials.

The module will enable you in understanding research happening in collaborative areas in art and science, including arts in health and graphic medicine; bioart and biohacking; transhumanism and digital bodies, and public engagement with science in unexpected locations such as festivals. The module is supported by guest lecturers who will expose you to various areas of art-science collaboration.

You will produce an illustrated and designed written project relating to your specific art-science research interests and relevant to a specific area of art-science. The subject matter for this piece of work will emerge through discussions with you over the course of your studies and could critically explore the ethical, theoretical, socio-political or professional context of art and science collaboration. The writing will be supported by tutorials and writing workshops. Students will be introduced to the ideas of practice-based and practice-led research and theory during the Research and Practice 1 module. The Research and Practice 2 module enables students to continue to develop their individual practice within a more considered theoretical framework, as well as exploring other matters relating to art-science collaboration.

This module is shared by all students studying on taught postgraduate programmes at Liverpool School of Art and Design and allows you to collaborate across programmes.

• A series of lectures, seminars, tutorials and visits will introduce you to current and emerging practice in relation to a diverse range of historical, theoretical and critical principles
• Guest lecturers will expose you to areas of collaboration
• Seminars and tutorials will require you to share, discuss and evaluate your ideas and practice with others

The Transdisciplinary Practice module concerns the development of your individual practice. It sees you consider, adopt and implement a range of interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary methods, to refine, extend, develop and critically reflect upon your own practice. This enables a deeper relationship to one's own practice by seeing it through the lens of other disciplines, and cultivates more sympathetic understanding of the contingencies of other practices and disciplines through the same process.

You will work as individuals or in groups, or establish new relationships and collaborations to produce innovative, visionary and speculative practical outcomes in the context of one or more disciplinary contexts.

The module enables you to propose, plan, organise, publish or promote your work and research. Outcomes could include proposals for applied creative projects, documentary of work in progress, exhibition of work(s), public presentations in symposiums, websites or printed publications.

Learning is predominantly through lectures, reading groups and seminars. You will be introduced to ongoing inter-multi-transdisciplinary projects in the Institute of Art and Technology (IAT) and in the Liverpool City region through guest speakers who will expose you to new ways of working. 

Peer review is a crucial part of the practice-based research experience and this is facilitated through student-led and tutor guided studio activities and critical reviews. At this level it is expected that you will show a high degree of motivation and ability to engage in self-directed study, demonstrating a level of scholarship, initiative and problem solving appropriate to Master's degree study.

This module concerns the development of your individual art-science practice. The module’s structure fosters an inquisitive approach whereby the focus is on introductory gestures with new practical skills and ideas in contemporary art-science to enable you to produce work that replicates and simulates real world interactions for making, research and collaborative practice.

The module equips you with a baseline of historical and theoretical underpinnings of art-science and an understanding of how to apply ideas that challenge existing knowledge. You will study themes related to art-science interactions; studio/lab practice at the boundaries of disciplines; visualising the unseen and objectivity/subjectivity; anatomical and medical art; scientific illustration and bioart. This ensures that you have the resources to engage with current debates and issues within art-science research and practice, and enables you to establish a deep and inquisitive relationship with critical theories and practices within experimental art-science interactions, the contexts within which they are deployed and the research against which they are evaluated.

Your practical work will explore art-science concepts and challenge preconceived notions of art and science practice. You will learn from practitioners and researchers across art and science disciplines, including those based in the Astrophysics Research Institute, the Research Institute for Sports and Exercise Sciences, the Public Health Institute, and the Forensic Research Institute.

Learning on the module combines experiential elements in studios and laboratories with more formal lecture and seminar-based delivery, and you will be introduced to specialist workshops and technical support to develop your practical skills and support your on-going project work. Assessments will include the presentation of development work and outcomes in a portfolio, accompanied by a verbal presentation.

In this module you will explore the creative possibilities and speculative futures at the intersection of Art and Science through the production of a research proposal and development of a practice-based or practice-led research project appropriate to your art-science research concerns, which is supported by critical reflection and evaluation.

The module provides an opportunity for innovation and critical creativity and encourages you to produce inter-multi-transdisciplinary work that may have a real world benefit to society. You will have the opportunity to produce a self-directed and substantial body of work that is closely linked with your personal career aspirations. The kind of work expected should demonstrate a high level of conceptual thought and understanding of the historical and theoretical connections between art and science as cultures and practices, and show how these ideas translate into contemporary experiences.

Students will be required to make a working proposal for which they will receive feedback and guidance towards its realisation. Lectures and seminars will support learning, and tutorials and practical activities will develop the project towards outcome(s). This will enable you to plan, organise and present a final art-science research project through effective time and resource management, high level of critical engagement, creative achievement and appropriate technical ability. Collaboration is recommended throughout this module. You will develop your ability to speak publicly about your work and enhance your capacity to engage in professional practice.

Students will be assessed by a public-facing outcome of a significant body of work, supporting by documentation of supporting work, and both written and verbal critical reflection and evaluation.

This module concerns the development of your individual art-science practice. The module’s structure fosters an inquisitive approach whereby the focus is on introductory gestures with new practical skills and ideas in contemporary art-science to enable you to produce work that replicates and simulates real world interactions for making, research and collaborative practice.

The module equips you with a baseline of historical and theoretical underpinnings of art-science and an understanding of how to apply ideas that challenge existing knowledge. You will study themes related to art-science interactions; studio/lab practice at the boundaries of disciplines; visualising the unseen and objectivity/subjectivity; anatomical and medical art; scientific illustration and bioart. This ensures that you have the resources to engage with current debates and issues within art-science research and practice, and enables you to establish a deep and inquisitive relationship with critical theories and practices within experimental art-science interactions, the contexts within which they are deployed and the research against which they are evaluated.

Your practical work will explore art-science concepts and challenge preconceived notions of art and science practice. You will learn from practitioners and researchers across art and science disciplines, including those based in the Astrophysics Research Institute, the Research Institute for Sports and Exercise Sciences, the Public Health Institute, and the Forensic Research Institute.

Learning on the module combines experiential elements in studios and laboratories with more formal lecture and seminar-based delivery, and you will be introduced to specialist workshops and technical support to develop your practical skills and support your on-going project work. Assessments will include the presentation of development work and outcomes in a portfolio, accompanied by a verbal presentation.

In this module you will explore the creative possibilities and speculative futures at the intersection of Art and Science through the production of a research proposal and development of a practice-based or practice-led research project appropriate to your art-science research concerns, which is supported by critical reflection and evaluation.

The module provides an opportunity for innovation and critical creativity and encourages you to produce inter-multi-transdisciplinary work that may have a real world benefit to society. You will have the opportunity to produce a self-directed and substantial body of work that is closely linked with your personal career aspirations. The kind of work expected should demonstrate a high level of conceptual thought and understanding of the historical and theoretical connections between art and science as cultures and practices, and show how these ideas translate into contemporary experiences.

Students will be required to make a working proposal for which they will receive feedback and guidance towards its realisation. Lectures and seminars will support learning, and tutorials and practical activities will develop the project towards outcome(s). This will enable you to plan, organise and present a final art-science research project through effective time and resource management, high level of critical engagement, creative achievement and appropriate technical ability. Collaboration is recommended throughout this module. You will develop your ability to speak publicly about your work and enhance your capacity to engage in professional practice.

Students will be assessed by a public-facing outcome of a significant body of work, supporting by documentation of supporting work, and both written and verbal critical reflection and evaluation.