[spectre] MA Media Design Student Opportunities

[matthew fuller]

MA Media Design Student Opportunities:

The Master of Arts in Media Design is a two-year full-time course 
offered by the Piet Zwart Institute.


Systems not surfaces
Too often, media design has simply been the arrangement of pixels and 
plug-ins. For us, the computer and the networks are where dynamics 
that are aesthetic, social, political, technical, linguistic, 
rhythmic, economic and numerical, meet and shape each other. The role 
of the designer is to track, sort and remix these dynamics in 
relation to others.

Technology, theory, practice
In a working context where software is doing half the thinking and 
doing for you, where is the divide between theory, technology and 
practice? This course is committed to a fundamental revaluation of 
the division between these terms. We will look for and invent the 
technology that is in media philosophy; find the conceptuality of an 
operating system; and design in a way that synthesises the power of 
all three.

Work is carried out as a series of group and self-initiated projects. 
A primary focus of the work is the internet, education in these 
technologies is a staple part of our work.

Media Design Research
Alongside the MA programme we run a series of unique international 
research projects. These bring students in daily contact with leading 
designers, artists, and theorists, establishing a special environment 
for creative work in networked and computational digital media.

Find more information about projects, staff, facilities, application, 
international students, etc. contact: Leslie Robbins 
l.j.drost-robbins AT hro.nl
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The Piet Zwart Institute is the postgraduate study and research 
programme of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl
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