MA/PgDip Digital Performance
- Part-time study available
- International students can apply
Your Practice as Research project provides the main vehicle for learning supported by two modules of Critical Contexts and Creative Interactions. You will also be supported by personal and group tutorials, lectures, workshops, creative projects.
Review via tutorials, peer group critiques and specialist lectures underpin your Practice as Research project. Evaluation and debate are ongoing during the process of information gathering, the testing of theoretical and practical ideas, and the honing of all elements towards the end product.
A key feature of the course, providing a context for the discussion of broader issues, is a programme of cultural and professional seminars available to all PG students at MediaCityUK and on the main campus.
Assessment
You will be assessed through
- Written and oral assignments (50%)
- Written dissertation (50%)
- Plus continuous assessment by your tutors
Staff Profile
Mary Oliver, Course leader
Mary Oliver specialises in interactive performance. She is a Reader and Head of the Performance Research Centre at The University of Salford and Digital Performance project lead at 'The Lab' Media City. Most recently she was the organiser of the 'As Yet Impossible: in human performance' symposium at MediaCityUK, May 2011.
Summary of experience
Mary Oliver has been an academic and professional writer, performer, producer and director of interactive performance since the early 1990s. She uses a combination of live and screen interface, composite video, computer animation, story and magic to allow new kinds of characters to interact with the performer. These have included digital doubles, her animated self and at 9 inches high - the world's smallest performer. She is currently combining these skills and, in collaboration with a scientific research team, she is attempting a re-design of the human computer interface into something that is much kinder.