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Re: question: engineering PhDs for artists?

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Andreas Broeckmann <[log in to unmask]>

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Andreas Broeckmann <[log in to unmask]>

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Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:12:17 +0200

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dear simon,

thanks for the hints. the model that you describe is familiar from a 
number of practice-based art PhD programs (Malmo Art Academy at Lund 
University run something similar). this is useful, though i had hoped to 
aim my question in a slightly different direction:

are there PhD programs that are open for artists and more clearly placed 
in the field or on the border of *engineering*? to be honest, 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).

just a dream?

-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
>>
>> --
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> Leuphana Universität Lüneburg - Leuphana Arts Program (LAP)
>> Dr. Andreas Broeckmann
>> Scharnhorststraße 1,  C5.225,  21335 Lüneburg,      Germany
>> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
>> http://www.leuphana.de/lap
>> -------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>
>
> Simon Biggs
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ @SimonBiggsUK skype: simonbiggsuk
>
> [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Edinburgh College of Art,
> 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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