CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
TRANSART INSTITUTE seeks independent,
inquisitive and imaginative artist for its MFA program. In a
uniquely international setting, Transart Institute offers an
accredited two year low-residency 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, optional winter
residencies in New York. 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 artist mentors wherever they work and
live.
The Transart 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, curating, digital
media, film, gaming, graphic design, installation, painting,
performance, photography, robotics, sculpture, sound, text,
video, virtual reality.
Application deadline: June 1st, 2009
STUDENTS
The majority of Transart students are emerging and
mid-career artists and teachers at tertiary institutions.
Transart Institute's residencies are a true meeting place for
cultural exchange. Current students will converge for the
summer residency from areas as diverse as Puerto Rico,
Pakistan, Iceland, Croatia, Ethiopia, Canada, Costa Rica,
Germany, Austria, Egypt, the Netherlands, the Philippines, the
UK and the US.
FACULTY
Transart faculty comes from a wide range of academic
and artistic backgrounds as well as geographic locations.
Current theoretical areas of expertise include software art,
curatorial work, cyberfeminism, interface technologies,
born-digital arts, continental philosophy, media, conflict and
peace studies, social studies in colonialism, capitalism and
tourism, and contemporary asian art history. Studio faculty
include international artists working with sound, performance,
dance and choreography, photography, drawing, sculpture,
clothing design, film and video, intervention and installation
art.
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