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Emerging Curators Retreat 2019 at Otis College of Art and Design

OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Emerging Curators Retreat in Los Angeles Jamillah James and Meg Cranston, Emerging Curators Retreat 2018. Photo: Paulina Samborska. Priority deadline:  January 30, 2019 Otis College of Art and Design 9045 Lincoln Blvd 90045 Los Angeles, CA www.otis.edu Instagram  /  Facebook  /  Twitter  /  YouTube The two-week  Emerging Curators Retreat  focuses on Los Angeles’ international art scene with powerhouse visiting curators. Perfect for emerging and diverse individuals looking to advance their artistic and curatorial skills. Through a series of talks, conversations, and presentations with professional curators, artists, and thinkers, and site visits to museums, galleries, studios, and alternative spaces, participants will be able to engage with the local art community and advance their careers as curators. This retreat focuses specifically on the Los Angeles’ art scene while participants develop transferable skills as a curator.

Graduate Study in Electronic Art & Design at UC Irvine

Electronic Art and Design (EAD) students in the Department of Art at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts (CTSA) operate at the intersection of art, design, and technology, and are motivated to intervene in society beyond traditional exhibition venues. In EAD, students critically engage with the contemporary techno-social context as subject and medium, deploying electronics, computation, and media technologies in conjunction with other methods and materials.

EAD is a subspecialty within the Art Department's Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program, in which students develop a focused practice while articulating their position within the larger art world. Successful applicants will join a dynamic community of around thirty students working in EAD, video and digital filmmaking, photography, new genres, sculpture, and painting. All MFA students take part in a studio-oriented curriculum integrating theory, practice, and research.

Core EAD faculty inclu de Antoinette LaFarge (telematic performance, interactive installation, expanded narrative), Simon Penny (mechatronics, robotics, interactive installation, cognitive science, science and technology studies), and Jesse Jackson(computer-aided design and fabrication, generative algorithms, architecture, photography).

CTSA facilities provide EAD support for computer-aided design and fabrication, mechatronics, interactive installation, telematic and media-intensive performance, immersive and locative media, motion and green-screen capture, digital video, and photography. All MFA students 24-hour access to CTSA facilities including their own private studios. Financial aid is available, including teaching assistantships and scholarships. UC Irvine offers guaranteed on-campus housing to all new MFA students who are admitted prior to the housing application deadline.

EAD is committed to interdisciplinarity. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of the wealth an d diversity of resources and expertise at UC Irvine, including parallel graduate programs in Visual Studies, Film & Media Studies, andIntegrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology, as well as the Critical Theory Institute, the School of Information and Computer Sciences, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and the National Center for Rapid Technologies.

For more information, visit the EAD website (http://sites.uci.edu/elad) and Department of Art website (http://studioart.arts.uci.edu). For further information or to arrange a campus visit, please contact John Medina, jcmedina@uci.edu.
Deadline: Wed Jan 15th, 2014
Location:
Department of Art, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UC Irvine
UC Irvine
Irvine, California 92697
United States of America

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