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# UCLA MFA in Media Arts Is Accepting Applications for Fall 2022
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/ucla-mfa-media-arts-accepting-fall-2022-applications/
- Published: 2021-10-14T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:01:57.000Z
- Description: The program provides a rigorous environment for bold experimentation in new modes of critical thinking and art making in the context of media and technology.
- Author: UCLA
- Tags: Announcement, Art Education Announcements, California, Los Angeles, Sponsored, UCLA, University of California Los Angeles, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

The [MFA Program in Media Arts at UCLA](https://bit.ly/3azDNDJ?ref=hyperallergic.com) offers a rigorous environment for the sustained exploration of contemporary arts practice in the context of media and technology. Through technical and critical seminars, group critiques, and individual tutorials with faculty, each student is challenged to question conventional ideas about art, technology, and new media while developing a critical awareness about their own work.

Located within UCLA’s prestigious School of the Arts and Architecture, students in the Department of Design | Media Arts work closely with the department’s world-renowned faculty, which includes Steve Anderson, Jenna Caravello, Johanna Drucker, Erkki Huhtamo, Willem Henri Lucas, Peter Lunenfeld, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Chandler McWilliams, Rebeca Méndez, Christian Moeller, Casey Reas, Ramesh Srinivasan, Jennifer Steinkamp, Eddo Stern, and Victoria Vesna. Students can also have the opportunity to take full advantage of the resources UCLA provides as a leading research university.

Each year, the department hosts a lecture series featuring a diverse selection of international artists, thinkers, and performers. The 2020–21 lecture series included American Artist, Carmen Argote, Caroline Busta, A.M. Darke, Nikita Gale, Kit Galloway, Marie-José Jongerius, Daniel Maarleveld and Mitch Paone, Mark Ruwedel, and MSHR.

Students are offered robust financial aid packages, paid teaching and research assistantships, and access to numerous grants and fellowships. Our student-to-faculty ratio is less than 2:1, providing individualized mentorship and support. Other resources include 24-hour access to a state-of-the-art fabrication shop and electronics lab, the [UCLA Game Lab](https://bit.ly/30eYgvy?ref=hyperallergic.com), the [Art|Sci Center](https://bit.ly/3FHYKL4?ref=hyperallergic.com), the [CounterForce Lab](https://bit.ly/3BQFWXq?ref=hyperallergic.com), and the [UCLA Arts Conditional Studio](https://bit.ly/3v6GyFY?ref=hyperallergic.com).

The [application deadline](https://bit.ly/3lAEZgs?ref=hyperallergic.com) is January 4, 2022\. We are especially seeking candidates with diverse backgrounds and/or fields of study that may challenge the conception of “media artist.”

**To learn more, register for a** [**virtual info session**](https://bit.ly/3lCOU51?ref=hyperallergic.com) **or visit** [**mfa.dma.ucla.edu**](https://bit.ly/3azDNDJ?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**