The Transmedia postgraduate program in arts, media & design is a two-year, full-time course and leads to a master’s diploma in Transmedia studies
Application Deadline
October 1 2008
(The number of new admissions for the 2007-2008 academic year is limited to 15)
Transmedia offers you a stimulating environment where your work comes first: a continuous and independent art practice that seeks for a dialogue with similar practices from other disciplines. You are invited/expected to engage in an ongoing conversation on your work (process) through tutorials, group discussions, seminars, workshops and the interchange of ideas and skills with fellow students. The aim of our program is to encourage you in producing art-work that involves the computer either as a working tool (editing, designing, programming) or as a presentation model (multimedia installation, web site, CD-ROM). Still, we emphasize the user’s creativity rather than the machine. You are challenged to engage computer-mediated interactivity as broadly as possible, that is, using different and alternative forms of narration, installation and interface to foster innovative forms of communication and expression through transmedia art-work. We believe that people of different backgrounds and experiences are central to this collaborative, multi-disciplinary practice. Therefore, we welcome candidates from a variety of backgrounds: from graphic design, visual arts, architecture, and performance to photography, film, video, installation, and new media, but also from the humanities, sciences, music composition, dance, and industrial design.
The Transmedia program focuses on research and its integrated mix of art practice and critical thought. This enables you to emphasize not only technical knowledge, but also the conceptual understanding and insights you will need to produce thoughtful, engaging, and professional artwork. You learn from internationally recognized teachers and visiting artists who are actively shaping the direction of thinking and practice in the rapidly evolving transmedia field through their own work.
Research
RESEARCH IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE TRANSMEDIA POSTGRADUATE PROGRAM. TRANSMEDIA RUNS IN-HOUSE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS THAT YOU CAN LEARN FROM WHILE DEVELOPING YOUR OWN RESEARCH SKILLS. IN CLOSE COLLABORATION WITH ARTISTS FROM ALL DISCIPLINES, TRANSMEDIA RESEARCH IS DEVELOPED IN THE AREA OF COMPUTATIONAL AND NETWORKED DIGITAL MEDIA. THESE ARTISTS OPEN UP THEIR WORK PROCESS AND METHODS. YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THEIR PROJECTS CAN TAKE ON DIFFERENT FORMS (LABS, SEMINARS, SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS) AND IS DETERMINED BY THE ARTIST DEPENDING ON HIS/HER PROJECT. TRANSMEDIA RESEARCH FOCUSES ON VISUAL COMMUNICATION, POST-CINEMA, AND ACTIVE MEDIA.
Projects/Partnerships
Current in-house research fellowships include:
Transarchitecture
In what way virtual reality relates to physical reality? Artists working with electronic media usually hardly consider this question because of the relatively easy availability of all sorts of portable audio and video-equipment such as players, amplifiers, loudspeakers, video-projectors etcetera. Electronic equipment hasn’t been integrated within architecture itself since until now the sensory experience machines used to be part of the ‘interior’ design, together with the furniture and the curtains. Hardly ever presentations of media arts are integrated with the architecture of the exposition space. Since it is to be expected that this may change in the near future, it is a challenge to prepare for new forms of architecture by studying the history of the ideas and concepts of buildings dedicated and specially designed for the electronic culture.
By Steven Devleminck, Boris Debackere and Frans Evers, Interfaculty ArtScience, Academy of Fine Arts, Music and Dance, The Hague, NL
Walking Together
The development of a theoretical model through which to investigate the relationships between walking and sociality in Visual Art practice
by Simon Pope in collaboration with Pascal Gielen of the Center for Sociology of Culture, University Leuven
Visiting Artists & Lecturers 2001-2008
ALEX ADRIAANSENS, HERMANASSELBERGHS, SAUL ALBERT, SVEN AUGUSTIJNEN, BORIS DEBACKERE, HANS OP DEBEECK, HEATH BUNTING, BUILDING TRANSMISSIONS, PAUL CASAER, TONY CONRAD, WIM CUYVERS, MANON DE BOER, STEFAAN DECOSTERE, ANOUK DE CLERCQ, ARNE DEFORCE, MARNIX DE NIJS, STEVEN DEVLEMINCK, ELS DIETVORST, EDITH DOOVE, FRANS EVERS, JOOST FONTEYNE, MATTHEW FULLER, DORA GARCIA, DE GEUZEN, PASCAL GIELEN, MALCOLM LE GRICE, CRAIGIE HORSFIELD, GEOFF KAPLAN, DAVID KARAM, ERKKI HUTTAMO, NORMAN KLEIN, AGLAIA KONRAD, ERIC KOZIOL, PAM M.LEE, JOHN MAEDA, VALERIE MANNAERTS, VINCENT MEESSEN, PIETER PAUL MORTIER, LÊ QUAN NINH, ELS OPSOMER, SIMON POPE, TRAVIS ROBERTSON, GERT ROBIJNS, SUELY ROLNIK, DAVID SHEA, FILIEP TACQ, MICHAEL TAUSSIG, FRANK THEYS, LESLIE THORNTON, THOMAS OLBRECHTS, ANNEMIE VAN KERKHOVEN, ANGELO VERMEULEN, VVVV, THOMAS ZUMMER.
Full program and application forms
http://www.transmedia.be
http://www.sintlukas.be
Phone: 32-(0)2-250-11-00
Fax: 32-(0)2-250-11-11
E-mail: [email protected]
Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels is a member of the K.U.Leuven Association
http://www.associatie.kuleuven.be
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