Doctorate Media Art and Communication

• Presentation

  Presentation

  The PhD in Media Art and Communication promotes training and research in the fields of media art and creative industries. It aims to train researchers, artists and professionals to critically explore the vast array of objects and practices covered by current cultural and creative industries. This PhD program fosters applied artistic research through lab courses dedicated to cinema and sound, immersive and interactive technologies, digital curation, as well as theory and criticism. The course plan allows the monitoring of each student in the structuring of the thesis since the 1st academic year, while the 2nd and 3rd years are exclusively dedicated to the thesis research and writing. The doctoral thesis can be developed either as a monograph, as a project or from research papers published in indexed journals. The PhD program in Media Art and Communication has a great potential for internationalization, given the current growth of the creative industries, as well as considering the Lusófona University project approved by the EU to create a European University in Film and Media Arts named FILMEU - The European University for Film and Media Arts (Project: 101004047, EPP-EUR-UNIV-2020 - European Universities, EPLUS2020 Action Grant ). The PhD classes are offered in English.

• Admission Conditions

  Admission Conditions

  The following are eligible to apply a) Holders of a master's degree or legal equivalent from the fields of communication studies or studies; b) Holders of a bachelor's degree who have a particularly relevant curriculum vitae that is recognized as the Scientific Committee of the doctorate; c) Holders of an academic, scientific and professional curriculum vitae that is recognized as attesting to the ability to (c) holders of an academic, scientific and professional curriculum that is recognized as attesting to their ability to carry out this EC by the Scientific Committee of the doctorate. Documents required for the Application: - Thesis pre-project; - Letter of Motivation; - Curriculum Vitae; - Certificates of Qualifications. The selection process includes a compulsory individual interview to assess your motivation and qualifications to attend the course. and qualifications to attend the course. Selection criteria: 1. Candidates with a classification in their previous qualification: - Classification of previous qualification - 50% - Curriculum evaluation (curriculum + motivation letter) - 50% 2. Applicants without a classification for their previous qualification / holders of a bachelor's degree, with a particularly relevant academic or scientific curriculum / holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum recognized as attesting to their ability to complete the cycle of studies: Curricular assessment - 100%

• Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

  Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

  The EC's main learning objective is to acquire knowledge about contemporary relations between the media, the arts and culture and communication, reflecting on the multiple ways in which media technologies continue to materially recombine and to be reinvented in multiple industrial contexts, cultural and transnational. Today media studies must confront the media as objects in constant transformation and mutation that proliferate in our societies and influence the ways in which they are structured. This requires analytical skills and the ability to read these processes critically, placing the process of creation, reception and adoption in broader contexts, such as those of digitization or globalization / glocalization. This implies creatively exploring theoretical, technical and aesthetic tools, in order to develop a theoretical and applied device capable of critically exploring the aesthetic properties of media environments.

• Study plan

  Study plan

  • 1º Ano / Common Core
    • [1º Semestre]
    • Digital Aesthetics 7.5 ects
    • Media Arts and Immersion 7.5 ects
    • Research laboratory in media arts and creative industries I 15 ects

    • [2º Semestre]
    • Media Archeology 7.5 ects
    • Research laboratory inmedia arts and creative industries II 15 ects
    • Research Methodologies in Communication and Media Arts 7.5 ects
  • 2º Ano / Common Core
    • [1º Semestre]
    • Thesis Seminar I 30 ects

    • [2º Semestre]
    • Thesis Seminar II 30 ects
  • 3º Ano / Common Core
    • [Anual]
    • Thesis 60 ects

• Course Team

  Course Team

  Adriana Sá

  Alexander Gerner

  Ana Caldeira

  Célia Quico

  David Novack

  Filipe Luz

  José Miranda

  José Pinto

  João Carrilho

  João Cardoso

  Manuel Fernandes

  Rita Alberto

  Rui Antunes

  Victor Flores

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• Infrastructure and Equipment

  Infrastructure and Equipment

  The PhD in Media Arts and Communication uses the teaching, laboratory and research facilities from the School of Communication/ULHT, namely the tools and equipment for research and artistic creation offered by the University's Audiovisual and Multimedia Production Center. This center includes several laboratories and four studios fully equipped for audiovisual and multimedia production. The center has more than 60 cameras of various formats, from 35 and traditional Super 16mm, to 4K digital cinema cameras, as well as sound post-production studios based on Avid ProTools technology and a total of 45 post-production high-end stations. The University also offers its students a MOCAP technology studio, and several laboratories dedicated to: mobile technologies and solutions for Smart TV; 3D technologies and games; 360º sound. In addition, CICANT's Early Visual Media Lab offers access to immersive historical equipments (stereoscopic viewers, polyoramas and optical views, magic lanterns and camera obscuras) with the aim of promoting digital remediation projects based on applied artistic research.

• Scientific Areas

  Scientific Areas

  Jornalismo e reportagem

• Research

  Research

  The PhD in Media Art and Communication focuses on the contemporary relationships between media, arts and culture, reflecting on the multiple combinations of media technologies in different cultural contexts. To this end, the PhD program combines its theoretical and practical aspects with research carried out at the Research Center for Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies (CICANT) at Universidade Lusófona, allowing its students to integrate ongoing research projects or other activities related to their research interests. The fact that CICANT has a thematic line of research dedicated to ¿Media Arts, Creative Industries and Technologies¿ promotes this articulation with the work carried out by PhD students. This broad and diversified training will allow the PhD student to creatively explore theoretical, technical and aesthetic tools that can be applied to the most diverse mediatized environments.

• Observations

  Observations

  - Integration in the European University project FILMEU - The European University for Film and Media Arts, with strong implications in terms of mobility, integration of invited foreign professors, access to residency periods and research stays at institutions that are members of the consortium; - Integration in the strategic project of the CICANT R&D unit with a research focus on Media Arts and Cultural and Creative Industries; -The PhD is supervised by the Department of Cinema and Media Arts at ULHT, with strong training experience in this area and the best-ranked school in the competition to support higher education training at ICA - Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual. This Department is is also one a full member of CILECT, the world association of film and media schools. - Connection to three international programs Erasmus Mundus Masters with consequent potential to attract top students; - Faculty with a solid connection and relevant curriculum; - High-quality equipment and facilities; - Volume and size of approved and ongoing R&D projects where students can integrate;

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