Curious about studying Contemporary Art Theory MA (eca)at The University of Edinburgh? We've gathered all the key details—entry requirements, modules, fees, and more. Hear from real students by checking out reviews, or take the next step by booking an open day to explore it for yourself.
MA - Master of Arts
Lauriston Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
The MA CAT encourages practices that are speculative and reflective, developing artistic research on, and in, a range of media, sites and organisations.The programme supports an applied knowledge of art now, grounding schooling in the practices of art and contemporary art theory as well as extra-disciplinary and intermedial approaches.The taught curriculum consists of an innovative series of learning sprints designed to support the development of your artistic research and practice through:workshopspractical partnerships with art organisationscarefully scaffolded approaches to collaborative inquiry (‘problem-based learning’)peer-production (‘paragogy’)You will create art projects designed to engage and develop emerging hypereconomies of contemporary art and its variety of media, technologies, images, artefacts, tactics, texts, cultural contexts and professional practices.
4.2
