LINZ, AUSTRIA.- Transart Institute offers an international low residency two year graduate art program leading to a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in New Media. The program is intended to lift the boundaries between applied and fine arts, traditional and new media, artists and scholars.

Students are free to pursue work in any media art-related genre and to create their own course of study, working independently and with the support of faculty and self-chosen artist mentors. Short periods of intensive residency permit students to continue with their professional work and keep a balanced personal life while participating in the program.

Up Close and Personal Students work intensively in the summer and optional winter residencies on-site with guest faculty, artists, media practitioners, writers and theorists. Between residencies, students work one-on-one off-site with faculty by correspondence and with a self-chosen mentor in an exchange which includes a minimum of three studio visits per semester.

Program Goals The purpose of this program is to create a space for students of all disciplines to interact with a wide range of artists, scientists, theorists, media practitioners and visionaries. Students investigate their work independently and transdisciplinarily in both a cultural and studio context. Whatever genres students choose to work in, the program is designed to: bring artistic content to new media; enrich student’s praxis; foster change; facilitate a connection between group and personal work; provide the means for contextualizing work in the wider world; and develop interaction strategies with audiences.

Open House February 3, 2007 at Point B, Brooklyn, New York. Meet students, teachers and sit in on artist talks and lectures. To RSVP (required) and get specifics: info@transartinstitute.org

Summer Residency
July 11-28, 2007, O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria: http://www.ok-centrum.at

Application deadline for early applications March 1, 2007

Deadline for final applications with rolling admissions: June 1, 2007

Online application: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Pages/Admissions.html