A global educational initiative on urban media art

OUR MISSION

The Urban Media Art Academy presents a new kind of learning environment for artists, curators, designers, architects, scholars and city makers to explore how to bring media art closer to processes of change in local and global urban contexts today.

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Singapore
Feb-Mar 2019

The Academy will visit Singapore to explore the curatorial theme of the City of Quantified Visions in 4-days lab+lectures+field trip program from 28 February to 3 March 2019.


Call for participation: Durban | June 2018

06 June 2018

In the framework of the ISEA 2018 the Urban Media Art Academy invites you to a LAB+Lectures program 23-24 June in Durban with the curatorial theme City of Intersecting Rituals.

Bangkok Public Talks

15 October 2017

The Public Talks takes place on 17 November at the TCDC Commons and 19 November at the Freeform Festival in Bangkok.

Bangkok Workshop Projects

21 August 2017

Announcing the jury-selected project proposals for the Ideas & Concepts Workshop in Bangkok, November 2017.

Academy Launch

01 April 2017

The Urban Media Art Academy launches in Bangkok in April 2017, in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Thailand.


Our programs evolve between the formats of lab and lecture – and between education and training. Programs are put together across disciplines and sectors. Our programs are not exclusively about art but concerned with the implication of art and artistic inquiry in hybrid urban environments as a processual impulse of change.

Our programs evolve between the formats of lab and lecture – and between education and training. Programs are put together across disciplines and sectors. Our programs are not exclusively about art but concerned with the implication of art and artistic inquiry in hybrid urban environments as a processual impulse of change.

Our programs evolve between the formats of lab and lecture – and between education and training. Programs are put together across disciplines and sectors. Our programs are not exclusively about art but concerned with the implication of art and artistic inquiry in hybrid urban environments as a processual impulse of change.


Connecting Cities

Susa Pop

Connecting Cities Network (2012-16) is a globally networked action research platform and practice field about placemaking and curation of urban media art environments.

Future DiverCities

Susa Pop , Tanya Toft Ag

Future DiverCities is an action research project investigating creativity in an urban context co-funded by the European Union / Creative Europe Programme.

Migration Triptychs

Migration Triptychs is participatory digital storytelling developed with refugees from Iraq currently living in Liverpool, Sydney, Australia, and exhibited at the urban screen at the local pedestrian mall.