Hello All,

Paul Thomas is building the Artsci Cloud curriculum
while it is not engineering it is an important interdisciplinary
initiative - this note is copied to him for his informed contribution.

Concordia has various interdisciplinary programs, however
I am not aware of a joint engineering/art Phd program.

Diana Domingues is working within Engineering in the
Laboratory of Art and Technoscience, University of Brasilia
- don't know if they have a PhD program.

Christo Doherty, Digital Arts, University of Witwatersrand
had a joint Fine Arts/Engineering program.

nina czegledy




>Andreas.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Best regards.
>
>Lars Midboe
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>Electrohype
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>Sent from my iPhone
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>On 20 aug 2012, at 18:17, Andreas Broeckmann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>  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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