We are a computing department that offers an arts PhD
http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/mphil-phd-arts-computational-tech/
But the proliferation of PhD's these days is a bit disconcerting - they have become commoditised
The fact that we rush them through for on time completion in 3 yrs here in the UK is almost shameful.
AT
Dr Atau Tanaka
Professor of Media Computing
Goldsmiths, University of London
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On 20 Aug 2012, at 17:17, Andreas Broeckmann wrote:
> dear friends,
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> over the last weeks i've had two requests for advice from artists who are working with digital technologies and who feel that career-wise it might be good to do a PhD, even though they are both not the "i want to sit down, study a theoretical topic related to my practice, and work on a philological book for 3 years" types.
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> rather, they are artist-engineers who build things and invent new usages of old and new technologies, their's is an artistic practice that is closely related to the construction and moulding of ideas in technical hardware.
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> what i am wondering is whether for artists like this, rather than going into heady art&research PhD programs, it would not be better to try and find a *technical* department that understands the cultural significance of their work. if they have to submit a phd-thesis about their work as techno-cultural-artistic devices, incl. technical and artistic explanations and contextualisation, that might be more realistic - and possibly more appropriate - to achieve?
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> do people have experiences with such "engineering PhDs for artists"? and can you name schools that are open to such research, possibly in cooperation with a partner art school?
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> best regards from a steaming hot berlin,
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> -a
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