Deadline for applications: March 28, 2014
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Situated in the renowned Geneva University of Art and Design, CCC Research Based Master Programme (bilingual French/English) is dedicated to transdisciplinary research in the arts. Based on critical and political studies, CCC Programme emphasizes self-reflexion and analysis and encourages research on postcolonial and gender theories, ecological and posturban issues, web languages, sustainable education and bioeconomy, memory politics, governmentality, contact zones and migrations, European syntax, cosmopolitics, interventionist art practices and tactical media.
To emphasize the transdisciplinary research, CCC Programme welcomes candidates trained in art as well as in disciplines outside the field of art, including candidates from the sciences, humanities, politics, economics, polytechnics, law and various interdisciplinary practices.
Elaborated in an organic conception of research and teaching, CCC Programme is built on directed and independent studies with a strong intellectual and conceptual foundation and a wide range of research skills for the conception of projects open to participation and free distribution. Conceived as a learning community the Programme promotes a mutually engaged pedagogy that encourages the sharing of resources and competences as well as collaborative dynamics.
Studio investigations and artistic research are realized through the media of technical reproduction as well as through experimental formats. The program explores the role of art in society and considers artistic practice as knowledge production, thus promoting an approach that challenges traditional genres and the limits of the gallery/museum context.
CCC Pre-Doctorate/PhD Seminar in Arts maps the territory for a future doctorate in art practice while providing an open space for continuing research. The regular sessions ensure the sustainability of the research in art and support young researchers with the development of their academic career.
Professor coordinator: Catherine Quéloz; Faculty: Pierre Hazan, Anne-Julie Raccoursier, Gene Ray; Coordination; Cécile Boss, Sophie Pagliai, Janis Schroeder. Since its foundation in 2000, CCC Research-Based Master Programme organized seminars, workshops, research projects and collaboration with visiting artists and theoreticians among which we can name: Julie Ault, Ute Meta Bauer, Martin Beck, Ursula Biemann, Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Yves Citton, Critical Art Ensemble, Neil Cummings, Dieter Dietz, Caroline Dionne, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Anna Grichting, Silvia Kolbowski, Shin Koseki, Christian Marazzi, Sandro Medrazza, Antonio Negri, Nils Norman, Claire Pentecost, Beatriz Preciado, Greg Sholette, Bettina Steinbruegge, Marion von Osten.