Diploma in Technology and Arts Management

About the Programme

When the arts and technology meet, the result can be a harmonious mesh of ideas inspired by one’s creativity. The Diploma in Technology and Arts Management (DTA) focuses on artistic creativity and innovative use of technology for the creation, reproduction, and enhancement of the arts. The programme aims to generate professionally trained personnel who can creatively maximise what technology has to offer, to value-add to artistic expression, engagement and management.

Programme Aims

With the emergence of technologically-enhanced arts performance capabilities mushrooming in schools community clubs, integrated resorts both in Singapore and the region, there is increasing need for professionals with the expertise to manage the creative and technological aspects of these processes.

Graduates will be both technology- and aesthetic-savvy, imbued with an understanding of and appreciation for the evolution (and revolutions!) of technology-aided arts expression. Our graduates will be that rare hybrid that will be able to bridge the gap between artistic requirements and technological capability.

Curricular coverage will nurture such competencies as (but certainly not limited to):

• Illumination design and management

• Audio design and management

• Stage/set design and technologies

• Stage and production management

• Arts and event management

• Arts marketing and promotion

To give you a further edge in the technological arts arena, you will be exposed to processes in these selected domains:

i. Arts Technologies
ii. Arts & Events Management

Your Future Career

All Technology and Arts Management students will be expected to develop their expertise in one of two specialisations: Arts Technologies or Arts & Events Management. Graduates will enter the labour force with strong portfolios featuring a wide variety of both literary and visual creative projects.

Creative expertise and professional versatility will be the distinguishing characteristics of STA graduates, enabling them to capitalise on the myriad of job opportunities available in the creative and technical arts.