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
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg - Leuphana Arts Program (LAP)
Dr. Andreas Broeckmann
Scharnhorststraße 1, C5.225, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany
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