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Transart Institute
: MFA Creative Practice
Experience
residencies in Europe and in New York
City
Design your
own course of study, locally, in a world-wide
context.
Bring your
creative practice to the next level.
Get support
from self-chosen advisors -- wherever you work and
live.
TRANSART INSTITUTE
seeks independent, inquisitive and imaginative artists for its
low-residency MFA program. In a uniquely international
setting, Transart offers an accredited two year course for
working artists, teachers and all professionals in related
fields who are seeking advancement in visual arts and new
media. The program consists of three intensive summer
residencies in Europe filled with lectures, workshops,
critiques, seminars, performances and exhibitions and two
shorter winter residencies in New York City. In the four
semesters between residencies, students create an individual
course of study realizing art and research projects with the
support of faculty and self-chosen advisors wherever they work
and live.
THE MFA PROGRAM is
geared towards the development of a sustainable artistic
praxis rather than training in certain media or genres,
challenging students to think conceptually and work creatively
in new ways. Current students work with animation,
choreography, curating, digital media, drawing, film, graphic
design, installation, intervention, music, painting,
performance, photography, sculpture, software, sound, text
art, video and writing. More details online.
SCHOLARSHIPS of up
to 25% (50% for residents and citizens of developing
countriesup ) are available and will be awarded with
acceptance into the program at the early application
deadline.
TRANSART FACULTY
comes from a wide range of academic and artistic backgrounds
as well as geographic locations. Current theoretical areas of
expertise include curatorial work, cyberfeminism, African
diaspora, interface technologies, digital arts, continental
philosophy, media, social studies in colonialism, capitalism
and tourism, word and image relationships, and contemporary
asian art history. Studio faculty include international
artists working with sound, performance, dance and
choreography, photography, drawing, sculpture, film and video,
intervention and installation art. Details online.
TRANSART STUDENTS
are emerging and mid-career artists and educators at tertiary
institutions. Transart Institute’s residencies are a meeting
place for cultural exchange. Transart students and alumni will
converge for the summer residency from areas as diverse as
Italy, Egypt, Pakistan, Iceland, Croatia, Ethiopia, Canada,
Costa Rica, the UK and the US. For many students the time at
Transart is a transformational experience. New York based
artist Virgil Wong found “The community I’ve become a part of
through Transart is already much more immersive than what I’ve
developed in ten years of living and working as an artist in
New York City”. Photographer and performer Angelika Rinnhofer
found that “to work independently can pose a challenge but it
also offers freedom and flexibility. Since a large number of
students are accomplished artists and earn a living,
Transart’s concept is ideal to work toward a degree and to
expand one’s artistic career in addition to having a job.” For
composer and artist David Dunn “perhaps the most important
aspect of the program, to me personally, has been the
realization of just how constrained my professional life can
be. I have no lack of colleagues or opportunities to present
my work but my network of association tends to reinforce a
particular set of intellectual and aesthetic assumptions that
become ‘the’ set of assumptions. Transart succeeds at prying
apart some of those entrenched viewpoints to provide space for
new ideas and concerns. The truly international makeup of the
students and faculty reinforces this.” More details online.
EARLY APPLICATION
DEADLINE is December 1st, 2011. Applications can be submitted
online.
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