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Understand how media culture, arts, and the environment interact

Arts & Culture: Comparative Arts and Media Studies

Are you interested in the dynamic interrelations between media, arts and the environment? Then choose the Master's specialisation in Comparative Art & Media Studies.

Audiovisual media are essential to our society. Platforms, interfaces and networked infrastructures have become ubiquitous and influence all aspects of private and public life, and media culture is enmeshed with politics and the living world like never before. Digital media have not only radically reconfigured how we sense the world and create, exhibit and interact with film, television, art and cultural objects. Media also represent, communicate and contribute to global environmental crises.

Comparative Arts and Media Studies is one of the tracks of the master's programme in Arts & Culture. Find more information about the other tracks here.

Five reasons to choose Comparative Arts and Media Studies at VU Amsterdam:

  • You will learn in a globally unique way to combine a focus on media, art, and environment.
  • You will have the opportunity to study cultural phenomena across various formats and art forms.
  • You will gain a strong conceptual and theoretical grounding.
  • You will learn to analyse concrete cultural, curatorial, and artistic practices.
  • You will gain media literacy skills to historically contextualise a fast-paced audiovisual culture.
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This academically diverse programme offers you a unique opportunity to study cultural phenomena that take place across various formats and art forms. Comparative Arts and Media Studies combines a strong conceptual and theoretical grounding with the analysis of concrete cultural, curatorial and artistic practices. We empower students to develop media literacy skills, a sense of critical citizenship and civic belonging, and an ability to dissect and historically contextualise a fast-paced audiovisual culture through rigorous engagement with media objects in both mainstream contexts and on their margins.

Our teaching draws on multiple perspectives to help students situate themselves in the field and develop their ability to think critically. These skills can be applied both to traditional media like film, television and visual arts, as well as to more contemporary forms like games, memes and apps.

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