MA in Media Design Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The MA in Media Design is a two-year full-time english-language course offered by the Piet Zwart Institute.� We are the postgraduate centre for art and design of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam.
Systems not surfaces
Too often,� media design has simply been the arrangement of pixels and plug-ins.� For us, the computer and the networks are where dynamics that are aesthetic, social, political, technical, spatial, linguistic, economic and numerical, meet and shape each other.� The role of the designer is to track, sort and remix these dynamics in relation to others.
A primary focus of the work is the internet, thorough education in these technologies is a staple part of our work.� Core themes in our programme are: transmission, use, behaviour, and experience; knowledge and memory; the political economy of the information society; citizens and consumers, public and private identities; urban and virtual reality, network and diaspora.
Theory, Practice, Technology
In a working context where software is doing half the thinking and doing for you, where is the divide between theory, technology and practice?� This course is committed to a fundamental revaluation of the division between these terms.� We will look for and invent the technology that is in media philosophy; find the conceptuality of an operating system; and design in a way that synthesises the power of all three.
Connected to the MA programme is that of Media Design Research, hosting a set of projects testing the social and experimental possibilities for networked and computational digital media.� Researchers in this programme also act as tutors, guaranteeing a wide range of contacts and insight for students.
For participants, work is carried out as a series of group and self-initiated projects.� Information on these projects can be found on the website below.
In certain cases participation in single projects may also be arranged.
Find more information and application forms at http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/
Application dates for 2004-2005:
Recommended (for visa purposes) for applicants outside EU:� April 1st
Recommended for applicants inside EU:� July 1st
Final application deadline: September 1st
For further information contact Leslie Robbins, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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