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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES
(Low residency; English language, open for applications now)

The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories at the Department for Image
Science offers a two-year low residency leading to an M.A. degree. It
conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a
network of renowned international theorists, artists, curators 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 aids, knowledge of computer
animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the
most recent reflections on nano art, CAVE installations, augmented reality
and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into
art and media history are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important
approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History
of Science & Technology will be discussed.

MediaArtHistories MA is based on the international praxis and expertise in
Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving and Researching in the Media
Arts. What are 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?

Further Information:
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories
www.virtualart.at
www.mediaarthistory.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html
www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures

FACULTY

Erkki HUHTAMO, UCLA
Lev MANOVICH, UC, San Diego
Christiane PAUL, Whitney Museum
Jens HAUSER, Paris,
Gerfried STOCKER, Ars Electronica Linz
Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU, Art University Linz
Paul SERMON, Manchester, UK
Jasdan JOERGES, Micromovie, Berlin
Steve DIETZ, Director of ISEA 2006
Oliver GRAU, Danube University
Edward SHANKEN, UCLA
KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, HGKZ, Zuerich
Frieder NAKE, University Bremen
Machiko KUSAHARA, Waseda University
Monika FLEISCHMANN, Fraunhofer Institute
Margit ROSEN, MA, ZKM
Miklos PÉTÉRNAK, Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
Sylvia GRACE BORDA, University of British Columbia
Martina LEEKER, University Bayreuth
Slavko KACUNKO, University Osnabrueck
Irina ARISTARKHOVA, Penn State University / Singapore

DANUBE UNIVERSITY - located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau is the first
public university in Europe which specializes in advanced continuing
education offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals
and lifelong learners. Students come twice a year for 2 week blocks to
Monastery Göttweig in Austria.

With its new modular courses the DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube
University offers an educational program internationally unique. Without
interrupting the career students have the opportunity to learn through
direct, hands-on experience, social learning in small groups and contacts
with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary
art and media marketplace.

The Center in Monastery Göttweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses take
place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the needs of
modern research in singular surroundings. International experts analyze the
image worlds of art, science, politics and economy and elucidate how they
originated, became established and how they have stood the test of time. The
innovative approach at the Department for Image Science is reinforced by
praxis-oriented study.

APPLICATIONS for the next course start will be accepted until May 7th, 2008
(rolling admissions).

Module dates:
May 17 - May 27, 2008
Market of Media Art / -Management
Preservation of Digital Art
Sources of Digital Art and Early Forms of Computer Graphics
Historicizing Art and Technology
Cybernetics in MediaArtHistory
Gender aspects of Media Art
Excursion Ars Electronica Center

November 24 - December 7, 2008
Introduction to Interfacedesign
Locative Media: Augmented Space
Digital Tools and their programming
>From Telematic Images to Micromovies
Immersion & Emotion
Design & Function of Knowledge Space
Medial performance, theater und opera

May 4 - May 15, 2009
Strategy of networks
Ambient Intelligence
Planning festivals
Exhibiting & Curating
Media Art Exhibiting, Curation and Collection
Digital Art Archiving and Preservation
interdisciplinary and intercultural work

November 2 - November 12, 2009
MediaArtHistories & Media Archaeology
Media Theory and Theory of multimedia-based systems
Theory of perception
Visualization
Art & Science - History of Science
Spaces of interaction and their planning
Social Software

Contact:
Sabine Weber, MSc
Department for Image Science
Danube University
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, A-3500 Krems
Tel: +43(0)2732 893-2569
sabine.weberdonau-uni.ac.at
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis

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