Master of Fine Arts in New Media

About this programme

The Master of Fine Arts in New Media at the University of Lethbridge is a research-creation program that supports a broad range of artistic, design, and media practices through making, research, and critical reflection. Grounded in the understanding that making is a vital mode of knowledge production, the program invites students to pursue questions that emerge from their own areas of practice and study. The MFA (New Media) provides a framework for rigorous exploration of established, contemporary, and emerging forms of media while supporting a broad range of creative, theoretical and transdisciplinary approaches. Students engage media and technologies as tools, materials and sites of inquiry, using them to develop original work while critically examining the cultural, social, political, economic and environmental conditions in which they operate. The Department of New Media supports a wide range of creative practices, including: As a small graduate program situated within ULethbridge's Liberal Education philosophy, the MFA (New Media) offers exceptional opportunities for close mentorship and sustained engagement with faculty who are artists, designers, researchers and scholars working across diverse media, methodologies and fields of inquiry. The MFA culminates in a substantial thesis project that combines creative production with critical reflection and demonstrates the student's ability to make an original contribution to the field of new media. Graduates leave the program with advanced creative, analytical and research capacities that prepare them for professional ar