Application deadline: January 7, 2016
Applications received after the deadline will be considered on a space-available basis.
The MFA in Media Arts enables students from various backgrounds to create a refined, informed and individualized artistic practice in a variety of media. Focus areas include experimental film and video, documentary, performance, game design, social-computational media, digital poetics, mobile and locative media. The new Performances, Lectures and Screenings in Media Art series PLASMA brings renowned figures in media art and theory to Buffalo each year, including Tony Oursler, Martha Poon, Cory Arcangel, Geert Lovink, Cynthia Hopkins, Gregory Ulmer and Tony Cokes.
The Department of Media Study is renowned for its pioneering contributions to experimental film, video and sound art practice and theory. Today, Media Study adds to these existing strengths with an award-winning, internationally active faculty with expertise in film, video, sound, robotics, social media, games, interactive fiction, documentary practices, digital poetics, mobile media and critical spatial practices.
Students enrolled in Media Study’s graduate programs work together with artists and theorists whose work and research deliver formative contributions to current practices and discourses in the media arts. Faculty include Josephine Anstey, Marc Böhlen, Tony Conrad, Sarah Elder, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Tero Karppi, Dave Pape, Roy Roussel, Teri Rueb, Paige Sarlin, and Mark Shepard. Media Study also maintains vibrant exchanges with many other departments across the University at Buffalo, the flagship institution of the State University of New York, including Anthropology, Architecture, Visual Studies, Geography, Geology, Comparative Literature, Music and Theatre & Dance. International ties with world-class institutions such as the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar offer students the chance to add studying abroad to their portfolio of activities. We offer computing resources and expertise not typically found in arts programs, enabling students to engage computational media on a deeper level. All students receive access to studio space and state of the art equipment commensurate with experimental media practices.
Buffalo and Western New York offer a vibrant art scene with a high density of museums and galleries, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, CEPA Gallery, Big Orbit, Soundlab, Hallwalls, and Squeeky Wheel. If you are an independent, creative, critical and self-motivated artist with a vision, Media Study at the University of Buffalo is the right place for you.
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For additional information, contact Teri Rueb, Director of Graduate Studies.
