[spectre] Apply for NEW MEDIA AND AV ART master program by RIXC, Liepaja and Riseba

[Rasa Smite]

Hello, on Spectre list!

Please find below info about the new Master Study program on new media  
art and audiovisual media, which RIXC is now developing in  
collaboration with two universities in Latvia.

The new program is based on the previous New Media Art studies at  
Liepaja university, but in collaboration with RISEBA University for  
Business, Arts, and Technologies, we are opening it up for  
international students, as the studies starting from September 1st,  
2018, will be in English.

The program is practice-led, artistic research based, module teaching  
system, mainly addressed for artists, designers and creative  
practitioneers. Our new joint program particularly are focusing on  
360-video, AR/VR, immersive sound, MR and multimedia performances, and  
data visualization. Liepaja has great technical base – Art Research  
Lab (MPLab.lv), and RISEBA has really amazing facilities for  
audiovisual production too. In addition, RIXC is offering our  
laboratory and gallery for the students to produce and show their work.

The admission process has started already – the first exam (Skype  
interview) will take place in July 16, and on the next admission date  
will be announce on the end of August, please contact me for more  
information.

Liepaja has five state funded (FREE OF CHARGE) places (for students  
from EU countries, with best grades), and five more place with the  
study fee (3000 EUR), and there is a possibility to apply for  
scholarship (500 EUR / month).

Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Thank you so much,
best
Rasa

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NEW MEDIA AND AUDIOVISUAL ART Master Program, new joint program by  
Liepaja and RISEBA universities and in collaboration with RIXC
Apply Now!

This year we are opening new collaboration with RISEBA University and  
RIXC Laboratory – MA programme NEW MEDIA AND AUDIOVISUAL ART, offering  
even broader spectrum of knowledges and skills in digital audiovisual  
arts, particularly focusing on AR/VR, 360-video, immersive sound, game  
environments, mixed reality performances, data visualization.

Ten years ago RIXC co-founded the NEW MEDIA ART education program and  
MPLab (Art Research Lab) in the University of Liepaja, a beautiful  
city on the Baltic Sea cost (200 km from Riga), and since then it has  
been grown amazingly. We are proud about our student local and  
international achievements – they have continued their studies in Art  
Academy of Latvia, KHM in Cologne, and other universities in EU and  
US, they create audiovisual performances and public art in urban  
space, exhibit their work internationally, and establish their own  
enterprises in cutting-edge new media fields. Currently, you can see  
our graduates work in Digital Compost exhibition, in RIXC gallery,  
Lencu street 2, Riga (http://rixc.org/en/home___/0/622/).

The 2-year studies are taking place in Liepaja, and in Riga, on  
Thursday and Friday evenings (18.00-21.00), and whole Saturday  
(09.00-16.00). The 1st semester takes place mainly in Riga, the 2nd –  
partly in Riga and Liepaja, and the 3rd – in Liepaja, while the 4th –  
is individual work on MA thesis, with monthly meetings in Liepaja. In  
both cities the students have access to the really great digital  
production facilities in the media laboratories of Liepaja, RISEBA and  
RIXC. Liepaja has built also great international network: as a part of  
their studies, Liepaja students also organise amazing international  
digital art festivals twice a year – iWeek (in November), and Sound  
Days (in May), and assist in organizing annual RIXC Art Science  
Festival and Open Fields conference in Riga (rixc.org). Our teaching  
staff includes well known digital artists, film directors, electronic  
music composers, sound artists, media theorists, from Latvia,  
North-Europe, UK and US.

We have limited number of the state funded, FREE-OF-CHARGE, places for  
the students from the EU countries (up to five, with the best grades),  
and in addition we also accept (up to five more) students with the  
study fee 3000 EUR per year.
There is also an opportunity to apply for the Latvian state  
scholarship (check here, if you are from the country, which is  
eligible to receive it –  
http://www.viaa.gov.lv/eng/scholarships_gov/latvian_scholarships/scholarships_for_studies/?tl_id=22800&tls_id=54780)

Admission exams: July 16, 2018 (presentation of portfolio, and master  
thesis theme, can be via Skype), and additional admission (for this  
study year 2018/2019) will be announced on the end of August. The  
semester begins on the September 1st, 2018. For the next study year  
(2019/2020) international students may apply all year long.

If you have any questions about the submission – please contact  
Liepaja international coordinator: Erika Lauberga  
<erika.lauberga at liepu.lv>.

More info: http://mplab.lv/en/ (we are currently building new  
website), so if you don’t find the information you are searching for,  
don’t hesitate to contact Rasa Smite, MA program director  
<rasa at rixc.org>, or Anna Priedola, Head of Art Research Lab  
<priedola at gmail.com>

Welcome to Liepaja – join our growing digital artist community!

http://mplab.lv