THREE SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES

The Center for Image Science at the Danube University Krems is pleased to
announce three scholarships covering half-tuition for the new Master of Arts
course MediaArtHistories. Applications for the following scholarships are
being accepted until October 23rd, 2006.

:: UNESCO World Heritage Preservation Scholarship

:: Rudolf-Arnheim-Media-Art-History Scholarship

:: Interface Design and Future Applications Scholarship

Potential applicants should have, in addition to commitment in enrolment for
the 2 year Master of Arts course, enthusiasm for the scholarship's theme and
an interest in the further development of research in the theme for which
they apply. Selected applicants will be required to complete research on
their scholarship theme, possibly, but not limited to: focus of master's
thesis on theme, realization of internship or project related to theme, or a
similar research method agreed upon between the student and course leader.

:: UNESCO World Heritage Preservation Scholarship
The UNESCO World Heritage Preservation Scholarship supports further research
in preservation of media art and its histories through the example set by
UNESCO's World Heritage initiative. Successful applicants should be
committed to issues in documenting and preserving all forms of international
media art, from a theoretical or practical approach.

:: Rudolf-Arnheim-Media-Art-History Scholarship
Rudolf Arnheim himself expressed the motto of this scholarship in 2000
better than anyone else: "The technology of the modern media has produced
new possibilities of interaction... What is needed is a wider view
encompassing the coming rewards in the context of the treasures left us by
the past experiences, possessions, and insights." The successful applicant
proposes a Master Theses or a Project related to Arnheim's plea.

:: Interface Design and Future Applications Scholarship
This scholarship supports applicants interested in research within the field
of Interface Design. Approaches are considered focusing on conceptual and
aesthetic aspects possibly connected with the phenomena of interaction as it
relates to media art and its histories.

www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories

Awarding of a scholarship is dependent on acceptance and enrolment in the MA
course.

:: PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Danube University's Department for Applied Cultural Studies, Center for
Image Science is now accepting applications for the 2006/07 class of their
MA Program in MediaArtHistories starting mid-November. This two year
low-residency degree provides students with deeper understanding of the most
important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned
international theorists, artists and curators like Steve DIETZ, Erkki
HUHTAMO, Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Oliver GRAU, Edward
Shanken, Gregor LECHNER, Jens HAUSER and many others.

Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest and most
controversial software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary
and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction &
Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion & Emotion, and Artistic
Invention. Using online databases and other modern aids, knowledge of
computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well
as the most recent reflections on bio & nano art, CAVE installations,
augmented reality and locative media are introduced.

Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are tied
in intriguing ways to digital art. Key approaches and methods from Image
Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology will be
discussed. Media Art History offers a basis for understanding evolutionary
history of audiovisual media, from the Laterna Magica to the Panorama,
Phantasmagoria, Film, and the Virtual Art of recent decades.

The MA MediaArtHistories is located in the Center for Image Science, housed
in a 14th century Monastery, which holds also the historic Göttweig
collection, with more than 30.000 original graphics, etchings, prints etc.,
dating from the Renaissance and Baroque era until today. It contains works
of various German, Italian, Dutch, French and British artists (from Dürer to
Klimt*). This allows contextualization of the latest media art in its art
and image history as the courses work directly with originals - from book
illustration to photography to the most contemporary media art.

MediaArtHistories MA is also based on the international praxis and expertise
in Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving and Researching in the
Media Arts. What are, for example, the conditions necessary for a wider
consideration of media art works and of new media in these collections of
the international contemporary art scene? And in which way can new databases
and other scientific tools of structuring and visualizing data provide new
contexts and enhance our understanding of semantics?