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Transart Institute: Call for Applications
MFA Creative Practice
Path to a studio PhD

Application deadline: June 1, 2010

http://www.transartinstitute.org

Transart Institute offers the MFA Creative Practice, an international
masters program for working artists with summer residencies in Berlin,
winter residencies in New York and one-on-one advisement during two academic
years - wherever students work and live.

Students are free to pursue work in any art-related genre and to create
their own course of study, working independently and with the support of
self-chosen studio and research advisors. Short periods of intensive
residency permit students to continue with their professional work and keep
a balanced personal life while participating in the program. The majority of
Transart students are emerging and mid-career artists and teachers at
tertiary institutions. Transart Institute's residencies are a place for
cultural exchange. Current students will converge for the summer residency
from areas as diverse as Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Iceland, Croatia, Ethiopia,
Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Austria, Egypt, the Netherlands, the
Philippines, the UK and the US.

Faculty for the coming summer includes:

Iraqi born artist Wafaa Bilal who has exhibited his art world wide and
traveled and lectured extensively to inform audiences of the situation of
the Iraqi people, and the importance of peaceful conflict resolution.
Bilal's 2007 dynamic installation Domestic Tension placed him on the
receiving end of a paintball gun that was accessible online to a worldwide
audience, 24 hours a day. Newsweek called the project "breathtaking" and the
Chicago Tribune called the month-long piece "one of the sharpest works of
political art to be seen in a long time," and named Bilal its 2007 Artist of
the Year. In fall 2008 City Lights published "Shoot an Iraqi: Life, Art and
Resistance Under the Gun," about Bilal's life and the Domestic Tension
project.

Carolyn Guertin, Director of the eCreate Lab and Assistant Professor of
Digital Media in the Department of English at the University of Texas at
Arlington. She is also a Mentor in the de Montfort University's Online MA in
Creative Writing and New Media in the U.K. and Senior McLuhan Fellow at the
McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto,
Canada. She was a presenter at the Hybridities Symposium at Ars Electronica
in 2005. She earned her doctorate in digital narrative at the University of
Alberta in 2003, and does theoretical work on cyberfeminism, interface
technologies and born-digital arts.

And Nicolás Estévez, an interdisciplinary artist working mostly in
performance art and public interventions. His projects have been exhibited
extensively in the US as well as internationally at venues such as Madrid
Abierto/ARCO, Havana Biennial, El Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum of the
Arts, P.S.1/MoMA. In 2007 Estévez was awarded an alumni commission to
present a town-wide project as part of The MacDowell Colony Centennial. His
work has been reviewed in The New York Times, NYArts Magazine, The Boston
Globe, Art Nexus, Flash Art, Cuban Arts, and in major publications in
Mexico, Spain and the Dominican Republic.

All faculty bios are at: http://www.transartinstitute.org/members
The full summer program is online at:
http://www.transartinstitute.org/Summer

The new MFA Creative Practice is a student-centered postgraduate art program
which fosters independent thinking, risk-taking and the creation of an
informed and sustainable art praxis. The Institute is also a platform for
faculty to expand their teaching praxis by making space for creativity and
experimentation. Beyond its educational objectives, Transart Institute is
engaged in building an international community in support of students,
alumni, faculty and their artistic and academic goals. The institute offers
its former students a virtual and material basis for artistic practice, the
exchange of ideas, opportunities and critiques, supporting individual and
collective growth beyond the duration of the program. Despite its small
size, Transart Institute has become a place where the diverse and often
incongruous experiences, philosophies and epistemologies of the
post-colonial world can be in contact with each other.

Practice-based PhD
A path to a studio-based PhD is in progress and practice-based doctoral
programs are currently available through University of Plymouth. For more
information or to subscribe to upcoming news about a Transart Institute PhD
program please contact: cella@transartinstitute.org

Summer Certificate
Transart Institute also 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.

Summer Residency 2010: July 25 - August 13, 2010 in Berlin
Winter Residency 2011: January 6 - 9, 2011 in Brooklyn, NY
Application deadline with rolling admissions: June 1, 2010
Online application:
http://www.transartinstitute.org/Pages/NewForms/ApplicationForm1.php

For more information please contact Selina Heaton:
info@transartinstitute.org

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