Scholarships in International MFA New Media Program

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Transart Institute Announces Ten Scholarships
Application deadline: March 1, 2008
www.transartinstitute.org

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Scholarships
Transart Institute is pleased to announce that grants to the institute
have been extended and students are eligible for scholarships of up to
$2000. Scholarships are given on the basis of artistic merit and
financial need to students of all media and genres accepted into the
Transart Institute MFA program. The deadline for scholarship
applications is March 1, 2008. An online application form can be found
at: http://www.friendsoftransartinstitute.org

The Transart Institute MFA program
consists of three intensive summer residencies with lectures,
workshops, critiques, seminars, performances and exhibitions in Europe
and two shorter, optional winter residencies in New York. In the four
semesters between residencies, students create their own course of
study realizing individual art and research projects with the support
of faculty and self-chosen artist mentors wherever they work and live.
The 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.
The low-residency format permits continuing a professional life while
participating in the program. Deadlines for application to the MFA
program: Advanced admissions: March 1, 2008, rolling admissions (space
permitting): May 1, 2008. An online application form can be found at:
http://www.transartinstitute.org/Newpages/ApplicationForm.html

Certificate program
Transart Institute now offers a summer program for artists who are not
seeking a degree. Participants join MFA students in workshops,
lectures and critiques and leave the residency with input on project
plans for the year ahead. Artists attend the residency to: get a
creative surge; get a fresh perspective on their work; revitalize
their practice; take their work in a new direction, make plans for a
focussed praxis in the year ahead and to become part of an
international community of artists, theorists and curators. Artists
who successfully complete the residency will receive a non-credit
certificate of attendance. Tuition is EUR 2400 for the three week
course. An application can be found at: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Newpages/ApplicationForm.html
The deadline for applications to the certificate program is June 1st.

The Transart summer residency
will take place at the OK Center for Contemporary Art, OK Platz 1,
4020 Linz, Austria from July 13 - August 1, 2008
Graduating students will hold their thesis exhibitions at the OK
Center as well.
The program and course descriptions can be found here:
http://www.transartinstitute.org/Newpages/Residencies_Summer.html

For further Information please contact:
Julie Bush, ad...@transartinstitute.org
www.transartinstitute.org

Transart Institute MFA Program in New Media
Summer Residency 2008: OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria
Winter Residency 2009: Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Accredited by
Donau-Universität Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems,
Austria

Deadlines
Scholarships and advance MFA admissions: March 1, 2008
Rolling admissions MFA (space permitting): May 1, 2008
Certificate admissions: June 1, 2008