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International low-residency MFA & PhD in Visual
Art & New Media.
Experience residencies in Berlin & New York.
Bring
your creative practice to the next level.
Design Your Own
Course of Studies at the Unschool Art
School
Application
Deadline: April 1, 2012
- Fall and spring
residencies in New York City
- Summer intensives in
Berlin, the art capital of Europe
- A contemporary
learning experience without grades or pre-formatted
curriculum
- Workshops, seminars,
professional development, studio and performance
tours
- Develop a
sustainable artistic praxis rather than being trained in
certain media or genre
- Realize your
creative projects with the support of curators, faculty and
self-chosen advisors
- Low-residency format
allows you to keep professional and family obligations while
advancing your career
- International make
up of students and faculty fosters exchange across cultural
boundaries
- Alumni and faculty
form an international collective with exhibition and
performance opportunities
- Offsite study,
critiques and advisement wherever you live and
work
- Regular one on one
reviews and interactions with a variety of established and up
and coming curators
- Thesis exhibition
and performances reviewed, critiqued and curated by
established international curators
THE MFA
CREATIVE PRACTICE is a two year low-residency program
where students and faculty come together for three weeks each
summer to participate in workshops, lectures, critiques,
seminars, performances and exhibitions. Additionally, students
will experience a week of feedback on their projects in the
fall and (optionally) in the spring in New York City. In the
four semesters in-between residencies, students carry out
individual creative projects wherever they work and live with
the support of advisors, faculty and critique groups. Details
on the Transart website.
TRANSART
FACULTY come 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 includes international artists working with sound,
performance, dance and choreography, photography, drawing,
sculpture, film and video, intervention and installation.
Details and bios can be found on
the website.
TRANSART
STUDENTS are emerging and mid-career artists and
educators. 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.”
Performer and painter Nicole Stager wrote: “This program has
changed my life in profound ways. My art practice is more
informed, better articulated, more open, more thoughtful, more
grounded in theory.” You can learn more about the experiences other students have had at
Transart.
THE
TRANSART COLLECTIVE is an informal, decentralized
network of Transart alumni, students, and faculty.
Transartists come together from all points on the globe for
discussion, exchange, and independently-driven projects with
others in the international Transart community. The Collective
platform offers a place to connect with others in the network,
allowing all to post news, announce projects, or initiate
collaborations. Recently, members of the Transart
International Collective participated in Not Festival
(performances, exhibits, talks, classes, jams) Brooklyn, New
York, 2011; Nothing to Declare (exhibition and education
projects) Manila, Philippines, 2011; Working Conversations:
(presentations and discussions on artists working in public
space) Vienna, Austria, 2011; and the Shelter Project (talks,
performance, intervention, exhibition) Vienna, Austria. You
can learn more about the Transart Collective.
FINANCES are explained here. The application committee
is authorized to award scholarships of up to 25% with
acceptance into the MFA. Please note that Transart has no full
scholarships. Assistantships will be discussed with accepted
applicants. Additional financing should be available through
sources in your country of residence/citizenship. Funding
letters are mailed with acceptance into the
program.
If you have further
questions one of the faculty will be happy to discuss the
program with you in detail. Please contact administrative
assistant Drew Henmi for an appointment: henmi@transart.org or call +1 (347)
410 9905.
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