The aim of the programme is to enable and nurture artists whose interests are based upon, and developed through, technology and lens-based media, the materials of photography and other related disciplines in fine art; the programme emphasises the full range of possibilities offered to an artist at every stage of the creative process: from the initial intention or idea, through to confrontation with subject, photographic materials, technology and darkroom techniques, then on to the public presentation of an independent artwork; students are involved with the early 19th century technologies of the cyanotype and salted-print, onto the digital and moving image of the 21st century; there is also an involvement with audio-visual technologies, drawing, casting, fabrication, and with the possibilities of making artist book-works and publications.