Application deadline: June 1, 2009

TRANSART INSTITUTE seeks independent, inquisitive and imaginative
artist for its MFA program. In a uniquely international setting
Transart Institute offers an accredited two year low-residency course
for working artists, teachers and all professionals in related fields
who are seeking advancement in visual arts and new media. The program
consists of three intensive summer residencies in Europe filled with
lectures, workshops, critiques, seminars, performances and exhibitions
and two shorter, optional winter residencies in New York. In the four
semesters between residencies, students create an individual course of
study realizing art and research projects with the support of faculty
and self-chosen artist mentors wherever they work and live.

The Transart MFA program is geared towards the development of a
sustainable artistic praxis rather than training in certain media or
genres, challenging students to think conceptually and work creatively
in new ways. Current students work with animation, curating, digital
media, film, gaming, graphic design, installation, painting,
performance, photography, robotics, sculpture, sound, text, video,
virtual reality.

STUDENTS

The majority of Transart students are emerging and mid-career artists
and teachers at tertiary institutions. Transart Institute's
residencies are a true meeting place for cultural exchange. Current
students will converge for the summer residency from areas as diverse
as Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Iceland, Croatia, Ethiopia, Canada, Costa
Rica, Germany, Austria, Egypt, the Netherlands, the Philippines, the
UK and the US.

FACULTY

Transart faculty comes from a wide range of academic and artistic
backgrounds as well as geographic locations. Current theoretical areas
of expertise include software art, curatorial work, cyberfeminism,
interface technologies, born-digital arts, continental philosophy,
media, conflict and peace studies, social studies in colonialism,
capitalism and tourism, and contemporary asian art history. Studio
faculty include international artists working with sound, performance,
dance and choreography, photography, drawing, sculpture, clothing
design, film and video, intervention and installation art.

For further information, please contact:
Ruth Grassl
Academic Assistant
ad...@transartinstitute.org
+1 (347) 410 9905
Application form: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Newpages/ApplicationForm.html
Scholarship forms: http://www.friendsoftransartinstitute.org/Pages/MFA-Application.html