The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned international theorists, artists, curators and many others.
Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest and most controversial software, interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction & Interface Design, Social Software, Immersion & Emotion and Artistic Invention. Using online databases and other modern aids, knowledge of computer animation, net art, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most recent reflections on nano art, CAVE installations, augmented reality and wearables are introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and media history are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the History of Science & Technology will be discussed.
MediaArtHistories MA is also based on the international praxis and expertise in Curation, Collecting, Preserving and Archiving and Researching in the Media Arts. What are, for example, the conditions necessary for a wider consideration of media art works and of new media in these collections of the international contemporary art scene? And in which way can new Databases and other scientific tools of structuring and visualizing data provide new contexts and enhance our understanding of semantics?
Further Information:
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mediaarthistories
http://www.virtualart.at
http://www.mediaarthistories.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html
Faculty
Prof. ERKKI HUHTAMO, UCLA / Ass. Professor of Media History and Theory Department Design, Media Arts, FIN
Media Archeology
Prof. Dr. LEV MANOVICH, University of California, San Diego, USA
Net Strategies and InfoAesthetics
Dr. JENS HAUSER, Paris, FRA
Genetic Art/ Bioart and its precursors
Prof. Dr. EDWARD SHANKEN, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA
Historicizing Art and Technology
Prof. Dr. MIKLOS PÉTÉRNAK, Intermedia/Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, HUN
MediaArt – an Eastern European Perspective
Dr. CHRISTIANE PAUL, Whitney Museum, New York / Curator for New Media, USA
Curating and Preservation Aspects of Media Art in Museums
Prof. Dr. PAUL SERMON, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Telematics and Images
Dr. JASDAN JOERGES, Micromovie, Berlin, GER
Micromovies and Mobile Imaging
Dr. STEVE DIETZ, Curator for New Media and Director of ISEA 2006, USA
Media Arts in Festivals
Prof. Dr. OLIVER GRAU, Donau-Universität Krems / Head Department for Image Science, GER/AT
Media History as Image Science, Media History as Immersion
Dr. GERFRIED STOCKER, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
Digital Communities and Social Software
Prof. CHRISTIAN HÜBLER, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich HGKZ, CH
Urban interventions – art, media and society
Prof. Dr. FRIEDER NAKE, University Bremen / Professor for Computergraphics and interactive systems, GER
Early forms of Computer Graphics
Prof. MACHIKO KUSAHARA, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, JAP
Impact of digital technologies and their background from a cultural point of view
ROBERT LOESSL, Channel Unit, Berlin, GER
Web 2.0 and Video Streaming
Prof. MONIKA FLEISCHMANN, Fraunhofer Institute, Bremen, GER
Design of Educational Spaces
Mag. JEANNA NIKOLOV, Danube University Krems, AT
Visual perception and cognitive aspects of media art
MARGIT ROSEN, MA, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, GER
Pioneers of electronic arts and early visual experiments with electronic computing technology
Prof. Dr. CHRISTA SOMMERER & LAURENT MIGNONNEAU, Art University Linz, AT
Interface design
Mag. CHRISTIAN BERNDT, Danube University Krems, AT
Digital Archiving and Digital Collections Management for Media Art
Dr. Sylvia GRACE BORDA, University of British Columbia, CAN
Exhibition Devices
Prof. Dr. Sylvia MIKSCH, Danube University Krems, AT
Visualization Techniques, Methods and Tools
Dr. Martina LEEKER, University Bayreuth, GER
Media Enhanced Performance, Dance and Theater
DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS — located in the UNESCO world heritage Wachau is the first public university in Europe which specializes in advanced continuing education offering low-residency degree programs for working professionals and lifelong learners. Students come for 4 2 week blocks to Monastery Göttweig in Austria.
With its new modular courses starting in November 2007 the DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE at Danube University Krems offers an educational program internationally unique. Without interrupting the career students have the opportunity to learn through direct, hands-on experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and media marketplace.
The Center in Monastery Göttweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the needs of modern research in singular surroundings. International experts analyze the image worlds of art, science, politics and economy and elucidate how they originated, became established and how they have stood the test of time. The innovative approach at the Department for Image Science is reinforced by praxis-oriented study.
Contact:
Sabine Lindner
Department for Image Science
Danube University Krems
Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Str. 30, A-3500 Krems
Tel: +43(0)2732 893-2569
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
