[rohrpost] CALL 2019: Artistic Research PhD Programme, University of Applied Arts Vienna

[Ingeborg Reichle]

ARTISTIC RESEARCH PhD PROGRAMME

at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria

Application deadline: 21 February 2019 / Programme start: October 2019

The University of Applied Arts Vienna invites potential candidates to
apply for the Artistic Research PhD Programme (PhD in Art).

The Artistic Research PhD programme is a postgraduate course of study
in the field of art. The six-semester programme of study, conducted in
English, concludes with the award of an internationally recognized PhD.

The course of study is set up around themes and practices of artistic
research, whereby the focus is on artistic work that is understood as
a basis for knowledge production. Reflection on and exploration of
specific methods and production processes in the course of each
student’s realization of his/her own artistic project is integrated
into its development as a key component of the research work. The
thesis consists of an artistic work as well as a reflexive
documentation of the knowledge gain yielded by the project. Research,
understood in the sense of comprehensive knowledge production, is
defined as an open-ended process.

The programme qualifies its graduates to conduct individual artistic
research activity in accord with international standards and to assume
coordinating and leadership positions. It engenders in its artists the
capacity to generate new knowledge on specific problem fields in the
arts, to contextualize their own artistic research, and to communicate
the resulting knowledge gain in an adequate manner. Graduates have at
their disposal the competences necessary to position themselves
successfully within the national and international artistic environment.

Doctoral candidates are overseen by professors at the Angewandte – who
are recommended by the same commission that is responsible for their
selection – with the support of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung.

The prerequisites for the programme are proof of general eligibility
for postgraduate university admission and the positive completion of
the admission procedure. In addition to providing proof of
qualification in terms of artistic development – documented by the
submission of a CV and a portfolio of artistic work – candidates must
also submit a written exposé outlining their planned activity within
the field of artistic research (max. 2,000 words). It should include
the explicit research question and discuss the research context,
methodology, project goal and ideas for reflexive documentation while
also providing a contextual and temporal plan for the project’s
realization. The proposal should be preceded by an abstract (max. 450
words) including the explicit research question.

Of particular importance among the selection criteria (see admission
procedure) are up-to-dateness, innovation potential and the potential
social relevance of the planned artistic research activity, as well as
the demonstration of knowledge of the national and international
research context. The documents for the admission procedure (CV,
portfolio, exposé, all in English) should be sent no later than 21
February 2019 in PDF format (surname_cv.pdf, surname_port.pdf,
surname_exp.pdf) via email under the subject heading “surname
Participation PhDArt” to zff at uni-ak.ac.at. The PDF may contain links
for downloading relevant material in widely used digital formats. The
attachments themselves should not exceed a data volume of 10 MB.

The results of the admission procedure will be communicated to
applicants by August 2019 at the latest.

Further information:

http://zentrumfokusforschung.uni-ak.ac.at/index.php/projects/phd/call-2019/?lang=de