[rohrpost] Leonardo Scholarship for MediaArtHistories MA awarded to Fran Ilich

[Oliver Grau]

LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES MA awarded to Fran Ilich

>From a field of applicants from twelve countries from four continents,
Mexican media artist, author, and researcher Fran Ilich Morales Muñozhas
been awarded the first Leonardo Scholarship in the Media.Art.Histories
MA program at the Department of Image Science at Danube University,
Austria. The jury, consisting of Edward Shanken, Jon Cates and Oliver
Grau selected Ilich from a highly competitive group of candidates based
on his extraordinary accomplishments, intellectual sophistication,
independent vision, and entrepreneurial spirit.  Ilichis Director of the
Literature Department at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Founding
Director of Possible worlds.org and Founding CEO of Spacebank.  He was
Co-founder and Moderator Nettime-Latino and has contributed essays to
Wired News, Modem.txt, and Al Fin.  His videogame artwork, "Banner"
(with Blas Valdez) was exhibited at 01 San Jose (2009) and ARCO XX,
Madrid (2001).  His Internet soap opera, "Fea y Rebelde" was exhibited
at Documenta 12, Kassel (2007).  He was General Director and Curator of
the Borderhack! festivals in 2001, 2002, and 2005.


=> LEONARDO SCHOLARSHIP FOR MEDIA ART HISTORIES
The scholarship is planned to answer the critical challenges of the
21st century, which require mobilization and cross-fertilization among
the domains of art, science and technology by supporting the studies of
a new researcher or artist.


=> FIRST INTERNATIONAL MASTER OF MEDIA.ART.HISTORIES 
(low-residency; English language, international faculty)
The postgraduate program MediaArtHistories conveys the most important
developments of contemporary art through a network of renowned
international theorists, artists and curators like: Erkki HUHTAMO, Lev
MANOVICH, Christiane PAUL, Paul SERMON, Edward SHANKEN, Jens HAUSER,Sean
CUBITT, Christa SOMMERER, Gerfried STOCKER, Knowbotic Research, Frieder
NAKE, Oliver GRAU and many others.  

Artists and programmers give new insights into the latest software,
interface developments and their interdisciplinary and intercultural
praxis. Keywords are: Strategies of Interaction & Interface Design,
Social Software, Immersion & Emotion and Artistic Invention. Using
online databases and other modern aids, knowledge of computer animation,
netart, interactive, telematic and genetic art as well as the most
recent reflections on nano art, augmented reality and wearables are
introduced. Historical derivations that go far back into art and
mediahistory are tied in intriguing ways to digital art. Important
approaches and methods from Image Science, Media Archaeology and the
History of Science & Technology will be discussed. 
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah 


=>DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS - located in the UNESCO world heritage
Wachau, 70km from Vienna, is the only public university in Europe
specializing in advanced continuing education by offering low-residency
degree programs for working professionals and life long learners. Our
students & faculty members come from the USA, Italy, Canada, Syria,
Austria,Mexico, & Hong Kong, among others. Without interrupting their
career, students have the opportunity to learn through direct
experience, social learning in small groups and contacts with labs and
industry. They gain key qualifications for the contemporary art and
media marketplace. 
The Center in Monastery Goettweig, where most MediaArtHistories courses
take place, is housed in a 14th century building, remodeled to fit the
needs of modern research in singular surroundings. 


=> LEONARDO/ISAST - Leonardo creates opportunities for the powerful
exchange of ideas between practitioners in art, science and technology.
Through publications, initiatives andpublic forums, Leonardo/ISAST
facilitates cross-disciplinary researchin these fields, seeking to
catalyze fruitful solutions for the challenges of the 21st century.
Among the challenges requiring cross-disciplinary approaches are
establishing sustainable environmental practices, spreading global
scientific and artistic literacy, creating technological equity, and
encouraging freedom of thought and imagination. 

=>LEAF - The Leonardo Education and Art Forum promotes the advancement
of artistic research andacademic scholarship at the intersections of
art, science, and technology.  Serving practitioners, scholars, and
students who are members of the Leonardo community, LEAF provides a
forum for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities,
includingthe College Art Association of America (CAA), of which it is an
affiliate society.

Further Information:
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/mah 
www.leonardo.info
www.virtualart.at 
www.mediaarthistories.org