Screenshot from virtual reality artwork after a "At some port city" poem by Artis Ostups, 2018

The deadline for document submission has been extended – till August 17, 2018

You can apply also online: https://e.liepu.lv/magistrantura 

Ten years ago RIXC co-founded the NEW MEDIA ART education program and MPLab (Art Research Lab) in the University of Liepaja, a beautiful city on the Baltic Sea cost (200 km from Riga), and since then it has been grown amazingly. We are proud about our student local and international achievements – they continue studies in EU and US, show their artwork internationally, they work and establish their own enterprises in cutting-edge new media fields. Currently, you are welcome to explore our student work in the exhibition – Digital Compost, in RIXC gallery, Lencu iela 2, Riga (http://rixc.org/en/home___/0/622/).

“Digital Compost” by Katrīne Rožukalne. RIXC Gallery, 2018. Photo: Kristīne Madjare

This year we are opening up new collaboration with RISEBA University and RIXC Laboratory – MA programme "New Media and Audiovisual Art", offering even broader spectrum of knowledges and skills in digital audiovisual arts, particularly focusing on AR/VR, 360-video, immersive sound, game environments, mixed reality performances, data visualization. Our teaching staff includes well known digital artists, film directors, electronic music composers, sound artists, media theorists, from Latvia, North-Europe, UK and US. 

“Mind Message” by Gunta Dombrovska. “Impulses” exhibition in RISEBA Center of Architecture and Media H2O 6, 2016. Photo: RIXC

The 2-year studies are taking place in Liepaja, and in Riga, on Thursday and Friday evenings, and whole Saturday. The 1st semester takes place mainly in Riga, the 2nd – partly in Riga and Liepaja, and the 3rd – in Liepaja, while the 4th – is individual work on MA thesis, with monthly meetings in Liepaja. In both cities the students have access to the really great digital production facilities in the media laboratories of Liepaja, RISEBA and RIXC. Liepaja has built also great international network: as a part of their studies, Liepaja students also organise amazing international digital art festivals twice a year – iWeek (in November), and Sound Days (in May).

We have limited number of the state funded, FREE-OF-CHARGE, places for the students from the EU countries (up to five, with the best grades), and in addition we also accept (up to five more) students with the study fee 3000 EUR per year. 
There is also an opportunity to apply for the Latvian state scholarship (check here, if you are eligible to apply – http://www.viaa.gov.lv/eng/scholarships_gov/latvian_scholarships/scholarships_for_studies/?tl_id=22800&tls_id=54780)

Exhibition “data.logs” by Trihars (Kristaps Biters, Pēters Riekstiņš, Rihards Vītols) in RIXC Gallery 2, 2017. Photo: Didzis Grodzs

Document submission – till August 17, 2018, if you have any questions about the submission – please contact Liepaja international coordinator: Erika Lauberga <erika.lauberga@liepu.lv>

More info: http://mplab.lv/en/ (we are currently building new website), so if you don’t find the information you are searching for, don’t hesitate to contact Rasa Smite, MA program director <rasa@rixc.org>, or Anna Priedola, Head of Art Research Lab <priedola@gmail.com>.

Welcome to Liepaja – join our growing digital artist community!