MASTER OF ARTS IN FINE ART Currently, important shifts are taking place within visual art. The emphasis seems to be moving from a practice focused on production to an experimental environment exploring novel forms of experience and knowledge. Such highlighting of research, which, moreover, is characterized by a medium-exceeding reflection, clearly demands an adequate curriculum from the side of graduate education. The domain of visual art is in a continuous process of transformation. Medium-specific concepts such as painting, sculpture, and graphics seem no longer able to determine the boundaries of the artistic practice. Anticipating the scope of research involved, the MA-Fine Art course will be directed towards two domains on which all students will concentrate while researching the position of the artistic image: the pre-image and the after-image. Therefore, the course will first of all go into what metaphorically precedes each medium, i.e., drawing. After all, there is not any object, plan, or idea that has not been drawn first or begun as a drawing. Drawing seems to provide transparency: it gives insight through visibility. The conceptual meaning of this primary form of visualization for the domain of art - as well as for domains such as science and technology and their interaction - is the starting point for researching the position and meaning of the (artistic) image in our current visual culture. Another extreme is the photograph. In the artistic process (for example producing a portfolio), the photograph often serves as final piece, as recording, as moment of distribution, and as documentation. Our current visual culture seems to attribute a high degree of truthfulness to the photograph. What does this photographic paradigm mean for the artistic practice? Could one speak of a reduction from a global image? Or could a theoretical/textual addition perhaps redynamize the process of artistic meaning?

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