The PIET ZWART INSTITUTE MASTER IN MEDIA DESIGN (LENS-BASED / NETWORKED MEDIA) is an intensive project-based research degree that will equip you to create a distinctive voice as an artist/designer in the contemporary media landscape.
The course encourages students to explore the new possibilities released by the friction between media forms, critically working across the historical gaps between photography, cinema, animation, mobile media, information systems and technological networks. This course does not believe in old media and new media, nor in the pattern of media extinctions that punctuate traditional media histories: we believe in the cross fertilisation of a thriving media ecology. Digital media can be thought of as a field in which radically different materialities of software, interface and human behaviour are being brought together for the first time. This is often experienced as tensions between computer code and the images that this code generates but does not explain; a tension between abstract symbols and concrete models, between concept and sensation. This course does not try to resolve these tensions but uses them to stimulate new ways to think about how we might live with information today. The following principles are central to the course: the placing of equal value on artistic forms including moving image production, data driven and network based art and cross-platform approaches such as transmedia narrative. a strong emphasis on providing students with basic technological skills ranging from computer programming to the cinematography, synthesis and manipulation of digital imagery, from beginners to advanced levels. a critical engagement with Open Source and Free Software development, especially in its implicit “hacker” attitude to opening up media for experimental purposes. the integration of theoretical inquiry, critical analysis and studio based practice into research methodologies that can support artists practice and artistic research. Based in Rotterdam, our recently expanded department is part of a leading international centre for the study of art, design and media, housed in a dedicated building with its own studios, facilities and project spaces. The Piet Zwart Institute enjoys strong links with a range of organisations, from established contemporary arts galleries and science museums to independent arts spaces and a regular presence in the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The course is taught by staff with international reputations in their respective fields and in addition we invite a wide range of international practitioners and theorists as guest lecturers and tutors. Application Deadlines Based on merit, places will be filled from the first deadline onwards, therefore early submissions are encouraged. Priority deadline - Non European and European students: January 31 2014 Second deadline - Non European and European students: March 3 2014 Third and final deadline - For European students only: April 1st 2014 Tuition Fees European students - For EU/EEA students (who apply for their first master course in the Netherlands), the annual tuition fee for the full-time course in 2014/15 is 1,906 Euros. The annual tuition fee for the part-time course is 1,576 Euros. Non European students - For non-EU/EEA students, the fee for the full-time and part-time course in 2014/15 is 9,400 Euros. For more info please see: http://pzwart.wdka.nl/nl/courses/mmdc/
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