[Nettime-nl] MA Media Design, Piet Zwart Institute

[matthew fuller <fuller@xs4all.nl>]

MA in Media Design
Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Master of Arts in Media Design is a two-year full-time 
english-language course offered by the Piet Zwart Institute.  We are 
the postgraduate centre for art and design of the Willem de Kooning 
Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam.

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, spatial, 
linguistic, 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. Throughout the course, the Internet plays a 
special role, not only as a platform for experimentation, both also 
as means for expressing ideas and engaging in networks of related 
discourse online.

Theory, Practice, Technology
Where software often dominates how work is conceived and carried out, 
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.

Media Design Research
Connected to the MA programme is that of Media Design Research, 
hosting a set of projects testing the social and experimental 
possibilities for networked and computational digital media. 
Researchers in this programme also act as tutors, guaranteeing a wide 
range of contacts and insight for students.

Who?
We are interested in applications from designers, artists and 
programmers, and also from people with backgrounds in connected areas 
such as media studies, mathematics or architecture amongst others.

What?
For participants, work is carried out as a series of group and 
self-initiated projects.  Information on these projects can be found 
on the website below.
In certain cases participation in single projects may also be arranged.

Where?
Students have access to working rooms and a studio in central 
Rotterdam and use of a laptop and various other specialist equipment.

When?
Application dates for 2004-2005:
In order to give time for visa processing, applications from outside 
the European Union should be received by May 15.  Applications from 
within the EU should be made by June 30. Whilst later applications 
can be considered, students from abroad are strongly recommended to 
apply early to leave enough time for arranging housing, permits etc. 
Applications from the Netherlands can be received up until August 15

How?
Find more information and application forms at http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/

How Much?
Tuition fee for 2006-7 is 1550euro

For further information contact Leslie Robbins, l.j.drost-robbins@hro.nl

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