Three spaces are left, both in the 2-year
MFA program and in the 3-week summer certificate program. The
accredited two year low-residency course leads to an MFA in
New Media and is open for working artists, teachers and all
professionals in related fields who are seeking advancement in
visual arts and new media. The MFA program consists of three
intensive summer residencies in Europe 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 certificate program consists of a three week summer
residency with all its lectures, workshops, critiques,
seminars, performances and exhibitions. Rolling admissions. To
apply go to:
2009 SUMMER PROGRAM
Highlights include workshops and seminars
on Sensory Perception; Identity: a Discourse of Body,
Personality, and Cloth; Time, Film, Technology; Art on the
Pacific Rim. Weekend events include professional workshops
like Guerilla Tactics: Basics of the Academic Job Hunt or
Hoops and Loops: Grants, Residencies, Fellowships, as well as
the film festival Simply Screen - Inbetweeners of Asia, short
workshops like Radio Hacking, along with exhibitions and
performances. Guest talks on current topics at the
Transmediale Berlin by it's artistic director Steven Kovats
and Voodoo Pricks: Rapture, Fissure and Urban Space by Myron
Beasley, curator of Ghetto Biennale, complete the three week
intensive:
OPEN HOUSE
July 29, 2009
6 pm: Program presentation
for 2010 applicants, meet students and faculty, ask
questions
7 pm: Guest lecture: Steven Kovats, Transmediale
Berlin
8 pm: Reception and Exhibition
Opening
Tanzfabrik, Möckernstrasse 68, 10965 Berlin
PROGRAM GOALS
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.
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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