English:Transmedia (Q180073)

Introduction

The Transmedia advanced master program in arts, media & design is a two-year, full-time course and leads to a master diploma in Transmedia Studies. The program focuses on research and its integrated mix of art practice and critical tought. Transmedia considers the computer as a working tool (for editing, design, programming) and/or as a presentation model (for multimedia installations, websites, dvd) and encourages the creation of contemporary artwork based on research. The program includes practical, critical, production and methodology studies given by an international teaching staff of artists and practising professionals. Transmedia believes that people of different backgrounds and experiences are central to this collaborative, multi-disciplinary practice. Therefore we welcome candidates from a variety of backgrounds: from graphic design, visual arts, architecture and performance to photography, film, installation and new media.  


Call for applications

Before the 15th of September 2010, candidates from a variety of backgrounds (from graphic design, visual arts, architecture, and performance to photography, film, video, installation, and new media, but also from the humanities, sciences, music composition, dance, and industrial design) can apply for Transmedia, a collaborative, multi-disciplinary practice. This two-year, full-time course in arts, media and design leads to a master's degree in Transmedia.

Transmedia offers a stimulating environment where your work comes first: a continuous and independent art practice that seeks for a dialogue with similar practices from other disciplines. You are invited to engage in an ongoing conversation on your work (process) through tutorials, group discussions, seminars, workshops and the interchange of ideas and skills with fellow students, internationally recognized teachers and visiting artists. The aim of our program is to encourage you in producing art-work that involves the computer either as a working tool or as a presentation model. Still, we emphasize the user's creativity rather than the machine.

The program focuses on research and its integrated mix of art practice and critical thought. During the first INPUT year, you hone both your production and research skills in the Transmedialab, engage with the history and theory of transmedia art in lectures and seminars, attend public events and, of course, mainly devote time to your own work. This input confronts and fuels you with different ways of working and thinking in order to develop your ideas and methods further. During the second OUTPUT year, you devote most of your time to your individual practice leading up to your graduation project, i.e. a (body of) work supported by a research dossier.

WHERE

Transmedia is housed in Brussels, Belgium at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels near the center of the city.

The working language of Transmedia is English.

WHEN

The transmedia program (1st + 2nd year) starts on October 1, 2010 and ends on June 30, 2010.

The final deadline for applications for the 1st year is September 15, 2010

(The number of new admissions for the 2010-2011 academic year is limited to 15)

More information about the application procedure can be found at  www.transmedia.be
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Contact

Transmedia Director: Steven Devleminck (steven.devleminck@sintlukas.be)
, Transmedia staff: Boris Debackere (boris.debackere@sintlukas.be)




Biographies

Steven Devleminck (Brussels) is an engineer and designer and teaches on new media art and information visualization at the Graphic Design Department of the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel. He is co-founder and director of the Transmedia Program in Arts, Media and Design. He acts as a curator, programmer, designer and publicist and contributed to several projects such as the 'Shapeshifters' lecture series at the Brussels Beursschouwburg and the 'Perfor(m)ations' symposium on art and architecture at Wiels, Centre for Cotemporary Art. He worked on 'An Anthropology of World Mapping' together with Herman Asselberghs and in collaboration with Filip De Boeck and Koen Stroeken of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (University Leuven), a project investigating the contextual relevancy of graphical knowledge maps. Recent output of this research includes the book 'Cartographic Strategies: Subjective Worldviews' (ACCO, 2008 in collaboration with Herman Asselberghs) and a series of maps exhibited at the Place@Space exhibition, kunstencentrum Z33, Hasselt. Other work includes the articles 'The Chemistry of Meaning, or How to map a Moment of Magic' (2007 in collaboration with Koen Stroeken), 'The Real and the Ideal' (2007) and 'Affective Cartography' (2008), a series of installations for the multidisciplinary exhibition 'WIT' at the Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg.


Boris Debackere (Antwerp) is an artist and lab manager at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam. As a media artist his main interests are the possible integration of different expression forms, with an emphasis on electronic sound and image. Most recent work and research is concentrated on translating and transforming the cinema concept into other forms like Live Cinema and audiovisual installations. His work includes 'vortices' a reactive installation, exposition Gorge(l) at the KMSKA, 'probe' an installation dealing with the relationship between the viewer and the screen, the research project 'The Cinematic Experience' (lectures and publication). He collaborated with Brecht Debackere on the live cinema performance 'rotor ' (performed at several international media festivals and is currently working on a new performance 'vector '. Programming and sound design for Marnix de Nijs' installations Run Motherfucker Run (2004), Beijing Accelerator (2006) and Exploded Views (2008). Composition and sound design for Herman Asselberghs' films a.m./p.m. (2004), Proof of Life (2005), Capsular (2006), Futur Antérieur (2007) and Altogether (2008). Sound design for Noud Heerkens' feature film 'The Last Conversation' (2008).