emma — exposição do mestrado em media arts 

Since its inception in the 2021/2022 academic year, the Master’s in Media Arts at the University of Minho has fostered a strong partnership with gnration and Braga Media Arts. In 2024, this relationship grew even closer when eMMA – the Media Arts Master’s Exhibition – came to gnration for the first time, a space that also serves as one of the course’s classrooms. This year, the fifth edition of the end-of-year exhibition returns here, featuring new works and new artists. At the intersection of art, communication and technology, students are encouraged to explore innovative forms of artistic expression. With a curriculum focused on laboratory-based, practical and project-based learning, the emerging artists use tools and concepts from digital art and the field of technology to develop new works and projects in the field of Media Arts.

The close relationship with Braga Media Arts and gnration further enriches the students’ experience, offering them privileged access to relevant cultural and artistic activities that complement and inspire their academic work. In this end-of-academic-year exhibition, the students – emerging artists – have the opportunity to showcase the projects they have developed, whether individually or collaboratively, to the community. The works on display explore themes as diverse as digital identity and individual and collective memory, climate change, migration and activism, generative processes of artistic creation, and much more. The eMMA exhibition thus offers an opportunity to witness, first-hand, the transformative potential of digital art and technology in society through the eyes of a new generation of artists.

partners university of minho, braga media arts

supported by portuguese republic – culture, youth and sports / general direction of the arts. portuguese contemporary art network (rpac). rtcp – network of portuguese theaters and cinemas.