AND MORE The process of artistic communication should be further explored in order to answer these questions. Such exploration is central in the module discourse production collective to all MA programs at the HKU. In an intensive dialogue with participants of the Master's programs in fashion, interior design, editorial design, and urban design, students will reflect both on the specificity and boundaries of their own field of production and the possibility of constructive crossovers. In addition, fields such as artistic research and methodology and how they differ from other forms of knowledge-based research will be investigated in the theory program. A follow-up of that investigation will take place in more individual, studio-based research. In weekly group discussions, as well as in tutorials, with visiting professors involved in related research, students are trained in the skill of theoretically situating and positioning their research project. For that, each student has to give at least two presentations about the progress of his or her research before an audience of peers. At the same time, reporting in writing on one's artistic points of view and written critical feedback on topical discussions will be continuously practiced. Ultimately, the research project should result in a presentation and a public discussion in coherence with the publication of the parallel theoretical (thesis) research. The program highly values professional discussion of exhibition models and, therefore, will pay much attention to the role and position of the curator. The Master's program intends to provide tools and paradigms to some ten students annually, which offers possibilities of learning in a medium-exceeding way so that students will be able to develop themselves as inspiring and guiding pioneers with a visionary attitude. The broad, theoretical program, the analytic skills, the communicative research attitude, the capacity to develop both a transmedial vision and academic insight coupled with artistic power will enable the MA Fine Art candidate to conduct a thorough and well-founded investigation of the most appropriate methods and contexts to present one's artistic work. Moreover, each candidate should have the capacity to inform and advise others in the role of e.g. curator or mediator - positions until now held by non-artists, thus, executed from a non-artistic perspective - or lecturer. Now that our current society threatens to become opaque due to complexities and a multi-layered entanglement of anomalies, there is an increasing need for professionals who are able to educate outsiders about the developments of their field.

Programme All Fine Art Names Intro Nancy Bleck Chantal Ehrhardt Joris Lindhout Theo Marks Eva Roovers