dear andreas,
> i have no
> idea what engineering PhDs look like these days, but i fantasise about a
> PhD project that is akin to a technical invention, the thesis looking
> more like a patent application than a philological monograph (the latter
> format can be impossible for artists who have the technical and
> conceptual but not the writing skills).
why would you want that? dreaming of transposing the pseudo-objectivity
of the natural sciences onto arts? turning practice-led PHDs in arts
into patent generating machines? That's what eurocrats want us to do anyway
> just a dream?
hopefully. it is important that art retains its critical function
vis-a-vis hegemonic thoughts in society
best regards
armin
> -a
>
>
> Am 20.08.12 18:56, schrieb Simon Biggs:
>> Our PhDs can do something like this, although they still need to deliver
>> 50% of their output in the form of a thesis. However, our focus is
>> research through practice (rather than research into practice) so the
>> practice is where we hope to see the main research being undertaken. In
>> this case the thesis is used to articulate the context of the research
>> (both practice and theory), the analytical framework, the criteria for
>> evaluation, an outline of the research methods and a detailed
>> description of the work undertaken, with a concise outline of the final
>> outcomes. We have students undertaking PhDs co-supervised between
>> art/design/architecture and computing/informatics/engineering, as well
>> as crossing over into the humanities and social sciences. We also have
>> some working in bio-engineering as creative practice, which is a growth
>> area (sorry about the pun).
>>
>> The key thing with a PhD, as with all research, is that it has to
>> deliver novel insights of value to others, not just the person doing it,
>> and to do this the outcomes have to be articulated in a public context
>> where others can readily access and understand the work. That is a
>> challenge for any researcher, not just a PhD.
>>
>> Aside from here at Edinburgh I'm aware that Newcastle, Queen Mary,
>> Lancaster and Goldsmiths support such PhDs, as do MIT, UC Irvine and
>> Carnegie Mellon in the USA. There are others as well, including in
>> Australia and Canada.
>>
>> best
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> On 20 Aug 2012, at 17:17, Andreas Broeckmann 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
>>>
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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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>>> http://www.leuphana.de/lap
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>>>
>>
>>
>> Simon Biggs
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>>
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>> University of Edinburgh
>> http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ http://www.elmcip.net/
>> http://www.movingtargets.co.uk/
>> MSc by Research in Interdisciplinary Creative Practices
>> http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees?id=656&cw_xml=details.php
>>
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