Study profile
The Bachelor ArtScience is an interdisciplinary programme for students who want to explore what can happen between art, science, technology and other forms of knowledge. A body can simultaneously be biological, political, technological and sensory. A landscape can be an ecosystem, an archive, a material and a contested territory. Sound can be physical vibration, information, communication and artistic material. To investigate these things, the programme encourages you to develop your own questions, methods and artistic practice across disciplinary boundaries.
You might work with perception, bodies, materials, environments, landscapes, technologies, sound, performance, moving image, ecological systems, spatial practices, or forms that do not yet have an obvious name. You might investigate relationships between human and non-human actors, develop performative ways of doing research, construct an experiment, work with a particular material or environment, or follow a question that requires you to invent the method as you go. Sometimes the right technology is a computer. Sometimes it is a piece of string, a drawing, a conversation, a walk, a bucket of water.
What connects these approaches is curiosity: learning how to formulate a question, how to find the methods that question requires, and how an experiment can develop into an artistic proposition.
ArtScience is exploratory, collaborative and self-directed; intellectually curious, sometimes slightly unruly, and technically promiscuous. You are not expected to remain faithful to one medium, technology or methodology. Instead, you learn to move between them critically and purposefully.
Specifications
Degree
Bachelor of Arts
Duration
4 years full-time
Study load
Start date
September
Costs
Head of department
Carl Johan Högberg
Application deadline
Language
English-taught programme
(English level required)
Programme / CROHO
B Autonomous Fine Art / 39110
Professional Perspective
ArtScience is an interdisciplinary bachelor’s programme in which artistic and scientific methods are integrated in the curriculum. Students learn to perceive, investigate, and shape relationships through embodied artistic exploration. They develop their artistic practice as a relational system, one that emerges from embodied perception and evolves into a self-aware and professionally positioned practice within cultural, technological, and societal ecosystems.
