MA/PgDip Digital Performance

You will be able to work in a range of environments from the cultural sector to future media, interactive design and production, games design and content production, interactive communication systems providers. There will be opportunities whether you want to work as a freelancer, in your own business or as a consultant.

People who work in the field of digital performance are able to work across a wide range of applied areas of creative design and application. This ranges from traditional arts settings to the fields of interactive design, new media production and, as the use of digitally driven interfaces increases, into more commercially driven areas of work. Digital performance experts can have a broad set of skills from devising and composition, to technical design, production management, programming, script-development, video editing and post-production skills, dependent on the nature of the choice of application and target audience. Employers could include the cultural sector, new media content designers and providers, interactive interface providers, games designers, web content, and film companies. Digital performance skills can be used to problem solve many human communication problems and as such can also be employed for the purposes of consultancy.

Industry Links

Locally we have strong partnerships with the Lowry Arts Centre and the BBC. Nationally we have links with a range of professional companies including Igloo, Blast Theory, and Imitating the Dog. Internationally our partners include MIT, Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Lab, Pittsburg, RMIT, Australia and Waag Society Media Lab, Amsterdam.