FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES

(Low residency; English language, open for applications now)


The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories at the Department for Image
Science offers a two-year low residency leading to an M.A. degree. It
conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a
network of renowned international theorists, artists, curators and many
others.

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 aids, knowledge of
computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art as
well as the most recent reflections on nano art, CAVE installations,
augmented reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations
that go far back into art and media history are tied in intriguing ways
to digital art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science,
Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology will be
discussed.

MediaArtHistories MA is based on the international praxis and expertise
in Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving and Researching in the
Media Arts. What are the conditions necessary for a wider consideration
of media art works and of new media in these collections of the
international contemporary art scene? And in which way can new Databases
and other scientific tools of structuring and visualizing data provide
new contexts and enhance our understanding of semantics?

Further Information:
www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories
www.virtualart.at
www.mediaarthistory.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html
www.donau-uni.ac.at/telelectures