AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

- Call for Applications and Open House

LINZ, AUSTRIA.- Transart Institute offers an international low
residency two year graduate art program leading to a Master of Fine
Arts (MFA) in New Media. The program is intended to lift the
boundaries between applied and fine arts, traditional and new media,
artists and scholars.

Students are free to pursue work in any media art-related genre and
to create their own course of study, working independently and with
the support of faculty and self-chosen artist mentors. Short periods
of intensive residency permit students to continue with their
professional work and keep a balanced personal life while
participating in the program.

Up Close and Personal Students work intensively in the summer and
optional winter residencies on-site with guest faculty, artists,
media practitioners, writers and theorists. Between residencies,
students work one-on-one off-site with faculty by correspondence and
with a self-chosen mentor in an exchange which includes a minimum of
three studio visits per semester.

Program Goals The purpose of this program is to create a space for
students of all disciplines to interact with a wide range of
artists, scientists, theorists, media practitioners and visionaries.
Students investigate their work independently and
transdisciplinarily in both a cultural and studio context. Whatever
genres students choose to work in, the program is designed to: bring
artistic content to new media; enrich student's praxis; foster
change; facilitate a connection between group and personal work;
provide the means for contextualizing work in the wider world; and
develop interaction strategies with audiences.

Open House February 3, 2007 at Point B, Brooklyn, New York. Meet
students, teachers and sit in on artist talks and lectures. To RSVP
(required) and get specifics: info@transartinstitute.org

Summer Residency
July 11-28, 2007, O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria:
http://www.ok-centrum.at

Application deadline for early applications March 1, 2007

Deadline for final applications with rolling admissions: June 1,
2007

Online application:
http://www.transartinstitute.org/Pages/Admissions.html

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