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Subject: [DASH] :: THREE SCHOLARSHIPS IN THE FIELD OF
MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES


:: 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. 

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