For immediate release
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TRANSART INSTITUTE announced today that ten scholarships of USD 2000
each have become available for the international MFA program. In the
Transart Institute low-residency program students create their own
course of study working on art and research projects off-site with the
support of faculty and self-chosen artist mentors. The independent
study is complemented by three intensive summer residencies where
lectures, critiques, seminars, performances, exhibitions, and
workshops take place on-site in Europe. The low-residency format
permits continuing a professional life while participating in the
program. Scholarships are given on the basis of artistic merit and
financial need. All media and genres. Deadlines: Scholarships and
advanced admissions: March 1, 2008, rolling admissions (space
permitting): May 1, 2008.
www.transartinstitute.org
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For further information please contact:
Julie Bush
Administrative Assistant, Transart Institute
admin@ transartinstitute.org
www.transartinstitute.org
USA: (347) 410 9905 Fax: (508) 682 2853
Transart Institute is an international MFA in New Media program for
working artists to develop a sustainable creative praxis. The low-
residency program consists of four semesters off-site, three summer
residencies in Austria and two winter residencies in the US and
Europe. It is intended to lift the boundaries between applied and
fine arts, traditional and new media, artists and scholars. The
innovative program focusses on content and context. Students are free
to pursue work in any media art-related genre, create their own course
of study and work in the genre(s) which best communicate their ideas
including animation, architecture, curating, cyberart, digital and
experimental media, film, gaming, graphic design, installation,
painting, performance, photography, robotics, sculpture, sound, text,
video, virtual reality.
Summer Residency in Linz: July 13 - August 1, 2008
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