Andreas.
Its a very interesting question and I'm glad you asked about it. I've also met many artist during the last ten years that has been in the same situation.
The first person I came to think of is Paul DeMarinis who works out of Stanford university. If I'm not wrong he works roughly by the principle you are talking about.
Otherwise I guess looking to Canada might be a good idea. For instance Concordia in Montreal even if I'm not sure how theoretical they are.
It would be great with a standardized model where theory and practical work is combined. I also think it would be of benefit to the art "genre". Maybe also for artists in more "traditional@ art disciplines.
Best regards.
Lars Midboe
Electrohype
Sent from my iPhone
On 20 aug 2012, at 18:17, Andreas Broeckmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> dear friends,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
> best regards from a steaming hot berlin,
>
> -a
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Leuphana Universität Lüneburg - Leuphana Arts Program (LAP)
> Dr. Andreas Broeckmann
> Scharnhorststraße 1, C5.225, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany
> [log in to unmask] http://www.leuphana.de/lap
> -------------------------------------------------------------
|