Course General Description

The programme is to educate media artists who are able to independently use various photography and new media technologies, implement individual works of art and take part in group creative projects. Photography and media art bachelor programme encompasses such media art areas as photography, video art, interactive media, sound art and interdisciplinary art practice. Graduates will be able to define the field of their creative interests, formulate artistic goals and reasonably choose the mediums to implement the ideas. They will be able to professionally execute works, employing photography, videography and multimedia techniques and ground used mediums with arguments. Graduates will be able to analyse creation in the area and evaluate it in the context of contemporary art, convey information not only to the area specialists but to a diverse interested audience as well. Graduates will have career management abilities and independent learning skills to continue individual studies. Developing professional expertise, graduates study art theory and practice, execute works of art. Discussing various aspects of art works students are fostered to get acquainted with the tendencies of media art practice. As new media is becoming more relevant, students should be able to research the newest technologies and use them in artistic creation. Graduates actively take part in contemporary art processes and make and impact on cultural context of Lithuania.

School General Description

Vilnius Academy of Arts is the largest and oldest art university in the Baltic States, established in 1793 as an Architecture department at the Chief school of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in Vilnius. At the end of the 19th century it was closed together with Vilnius University by the tsarist government, and then reopened in 1919. After the World War II Academy was merged with Kaunas Art Institute and since then was called The State Art Institute of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. In 1990 the Academy regained its name of Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 1990, almost 100 alumni of the Academy were awarded National Art Awards. Today Academy has over 1,800 students in four cities – Vilnius, Kaunas and Telšiai. Each faculty has its own unique study programmes, which offer Lithuanian students a possibility to find a specific art specialisation in different cities. Vilnius faculty has a wide collection of most popular art study programmes varying from Painting to Culture Management and Culture Politics. Kaunas faculty offers Glass Art study programme that is unique throughout the Baltic region.