[Asis-l] Arnheim Scholarship awarded - Scholarship for Interface Applications is open

[Image Science]

<=====  ARNHEIM-SCHOLARSHIP FOR REGINALD NJEMANZE  ============>

The Department for Image Sciences awarded for the first time the Rudolf Arnheim scholarship for the participation in the university course MediaArtHistories, MA, to the Nigerian artist Reginald Njemanze.
The academic sculptor, who was born in 1971 in Nigeria, expects from the participation on the postgraduate study MediaArtHistories a more theoretical base and new options of expressions for his artistic production. He sees the basis of his artistic work, which is presented more and more as multimedia-based in the history of media art, as a logical development of his production.

The Department for Image Science sees the scholarship - beside the support of an ambitious artist - as a possibility to encourage an examination of the contents with the theories of Rudolf Arnheim and the significance role he can play in the history of media art.

Further information:
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/en/department/bildwissenschaft/news/id/09382/index.php 

<=====  MediaArtHistories, MA  ===========================>

On the 13th of November the first international master’s course in Media Art Histories started at the Department for Image Science with students from Hungary, USA, Switzerland, Nigeria and Austria.
The program is in English and part of the new international orientation of the Department for Image Science. The course allows parallel full-time employment and leads to the academic degree Master of Arts. It gives a review on the latest developments of media art and brings international experts such as Steve DIETZ, Erkki HUHTAMO, Lev MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Oliver GRAU, Edward SHANKEN, Gregor LECHNER, & Jens HAUSER  to Krems. 

On-site modules alternate with online learning, supported by online databases and other contemporary teaching methods. The courses aim is the professional teaching of media culture of recent time, to integrate it in our institutions and to develop strategies against its imminent loss. The modular structure of the program offers the possibility for prospective students to ENROLL IN THE COURSE AT MORE THAN ONE POINT IN THE CURRICULUM. 

Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest and most controversial software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction & Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion & Emotion, and Artistic Invention. Using online databases and other modern aids, knowledge of computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on bio & nano art, CAVE installations, augmented reality and locative media are introduced. 

Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are tied in intriguing ways to digital art.  Key approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology will be discussed. Media Art History offers a basis for understanding evolutionary history of audiovisual media, from the Laterna Magica to the Panorama, Phantasmagoria, Film, and the Virtual Art of recent decades. 

Further information about the courses and application:
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories 
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaartpractice   

<==  OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS :  SCHOLARSHIP FOR FUTURE APPLICATIONS ========>

The Department for Image Science of the Danube University Krems opened an additional scholarship for the post graduate course MediaArtHistories, MA.

:: Interface Design and Future Applications Scholarship

This scholarship appeals to participants who are interested in research in the area of Interface Design.

Applications for the scholarships may be sent until February 15, 2007 in German or English. In order to support the regional cultural scene, artists from Lower Austria are especially invited to apply. Awarding of the scholarship is dependent on acceptance and enrollment in the MA course. 

Next start of MediaArtHistories is May 18, 2007.  Apply soon, course enrollment is limited.

Further information:
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories