University Master's Degree in Artistic Production and Management

The transformation experienced in these first years of the 21st century in the field of visual and plastic arts, both in its conceptual strategies and in its ways of doing things, poses new challenges of artistic and technological specialization.

The Master's degrees, of a specialized and / or multidisciplinary nature, are intended to teach the student's academic and professional development, as well as to promote initiation in research tasks.

The main objective of the Master in Artistic Production and Management taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad de Murcia is the application of effective teaching methodologies, based on open programming to other branches of knowledge, which provide specialized training on nature of artistic practices.

It offers the student the possibility of obtaining knowledge and skills that will train him in production and post-production in the visual arts, and empowers him to intervene in the current cultural and social scene.

In this way, the Master in Artistic Production and Management is structured on two intensification lines. On the one hand, a line based on contemporary artistic production approached from advanced knowledge of artistic creation, processes, languages, materials and technologies and, on the other, a line of specialization oriented towards artistic management that delves into strategies dissemination of artistic practices, adapting resources, media and spaces to the diversity of artistic contexts.

Students enrolled, through the Center for Employment Orientation and Training (COIE) of the Universidad de Murcia , will have the possibility of doing extracurricular internships in companies related to the degree.

The Master in Artistic Production and Management develops an artistic research methodology according to an academic and research profile.

Its overcoming will give the right to obtain the corresponding Official Master's Degree and qualify for the completion of the Doctoral Thesis and obtain the Doctor's degree.

Classes and conferences are held in the afternoon. In addition, students have a specific workshop classroom open in the morning and afternoon.

Master's file

Justification

The fundamental objective of this University Master's Degree is advanced training for production, initiation to research and artistic management, training to cope with the current socio-economic context. This Master encourages creativity, experimentation, research and management in the field of artistic creation, as well as its adaptation to professional sectors related to visual and plastic arts.

The Master's Degree in Artistic Production and Management aims to promote production and research in the field of artistic creation, as well as its adaptation in any of the professional fields of the visual arts in which they can develop and apply the acquired knowledge.

The objectives are the following:

• Train for creation, initiation to research, cultural and artistic management.
• Encourage experimentation and research in the field of artistic creation and its adaptation to multicultural codes, structures and groups.
• Provide the student with specialized knowledge in the management of artistic production techniques, using digital technologies applied to creativity.
• Expand the possibilities of the student's competence development and his insertion in the artistic circuit, as well as in the professional sectors of the visual arts in which he can apply the technical and creative knowledge acquired.
• Develop the intellectual training and critical capacity of the student, from the field of art and visual culture.
• Offer the student the analysis tools of the social and cultural context in which the artistic practice is inscribed.
• Promote the ability to design, develop and manage projects in multidisciplinary teams.
• Provide the student with methodological instruments to facilitate their autonomous and continuous training.
• Encourage and encourage exchange and collaboration between different research groups to make profitable the use of their resources and the dissemination of their results.

Competencies

Basic Competences (Meces)

The basic competencies of this study plan allow and guarantee that students:

• Know how to apply the acquired knowledge and their problem-solving capacity in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study;
• They are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments;
• They know how to communicate their conclusions and the latest knowledge and reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way;
• They possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.

General / Transversal Powers

• Being able to project, develop and manage work at a high artistic level.
• Define, program and undertake a self-directed and relevant creative project.
• Develop and self-evaluate artistic practices, work processes and research methods.
• Question your own professional practice and contextualize it in the field of art and culture, as well as being able to investigate new processes of artistic communication.
• Know how to transmit your intentions, values and projects, as well as the meanings of your work / creation, to interested audiences.

Specific Competences

• Adequate knowledge of the materials, instruments, techniques, procedures and processes applied to the field of creation, production, experimentation and initiation of research in contemporary art.
• Knowledge of the exhibition contexts and artistic markets as well as other professional fields.
• Knowledge of the business environment and marketing strategies related to the fields of competitive development.
• Ability to create an artistic and qualified project.
• Ability to evaluate and develop their own advanced artistic skills, their needs and possibilities for future professional projection.
• Ability to work autonomously and in teams, with initiative and leadership in interdisciplinary artistic teams.
• Ability to integrate knowledge, skills and disciplines that allow the development of a versatile profile in production, management and initiation to artistic research.
• Ability to develop a work of initiation to artistic research and production, both in its theoretical and practical possibilities.
• Ability to document, contextualize and promote artistic production, influencing a sociocultural environment adapted to new realities.
• Ability to manage artistic projects.
• Ability to base and communicate the intentions, values and meanings of artistic research and production.
• Capacity for creative innovation in the use and management of new communication technologies.
• Creative and technical capacity for the presentation, exhibition and diffusion of artistic projects through the use of complex multimedia systems that require advanced manipulation.
• Skill in handling advanced technologies and procedures appropriate to various artistic practices.
• Skill in applying methodological and conceptual tools to the field of artistic production and research.

Graduation profile

The graduate has reinforced his knowledge in art, artistic production, management and cultural advice, therefore, the professional fields open to graduates: Management of art gallery, museum, cultural center, curator, coordinator and cultural director, cultural manager in multitude of areas. Free exercise of the profession as a plastic artist, among others.

In the field of research, students who take the University Master's Degree in Artistic Production and Management will have access to the UMU Doctorate Program in Arts and Humanities.