[spectre] Arnheim Scholarship awarded / Scholarship for Interface Applications is open

[Oliver Grau]

<=====  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 or 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 untill Febuary 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.  Course enrollment is limited.

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