Arts & Culture: Comparative Arts and Media Studies

Are you interested in the dynamic interrelations between media, arts and the environment?

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.

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.