Chris Joseph

Transart Institute today announced the workshops and seminars for this years’ summer residency. Workshop topics range from “Language and Image” to “Archeology of Media”, with seminars coming in flavors of “Software as Metaphor” and “Documenta XII User Guide”, to name a few. The full program can be found at: http://transartinstitute.org/ Pages/Summer_2007.html .

Applications to the low-residency MFA program are being accepted with rolling admissions until June 1, 2007. Five places are reserved for the final deadline to accommodate the European schedule.

Transart Institute’s international MFA in New Media program is designed for working artists to develop a sustainable creative praxis in
— three summer residencies in Linz, Austria plus two optional winter residencies in New York
— and two school years of independent project work with supporting mentorships - wherever they work and live.

The innovative program focusses on content and context. Students work in the genres which best communicate their ideas including animation, architecture, curating, cyberart, digital and experimental media, film, gaming, graphic design, installation, painting, performance, photography, robotics, sculpture, sound, text, video, virtual reality.

The program is intended to lift the boundaries between applied and fine arts, traditional and new media, artists and scholars. Students are free to pursue work in any media art-related genre and to create their own course of study. Detailed information is available on the institute’s website: www.transartinstitute.org and through email from: info@transartinstitute.org.

Headlands Center for the Arts now accepting applications for Artist Residencies in all media through June 1, 2007. Download an application at http://www.headlands.org/programs.asp

Headlands Center for the Arts’ Artist in Residence Program has earned international renown for bringing together pioneering artists in all disciplines-visual, literary, performing and new media-from throughout the U.S. and the world.

The Artist in Residence program provides a supportive working environment that allows time for artists to experiment, reflect and grow, both individually and collectively during their stay.

The program offers fully sponsored, live-in and live-out residencies to around 30 artists each year from March to November and is distinguished in that there is no fee to participate.

Through the support of generous donations, Artists in Residence are provided with a studio, shared housing and five meals a week for live-in artists. A studio and dinner twice weekly are provided for live-out artists. Stipends of up to $500/month are available pending funding and sponsorships secured each year.

Residencies range from one to six months, with an average stay of three months.

Artists are selected based upon merit, through a mixture of open application and invitation. Headlands currently accepts applications for residencies from artists working in all disciplines: visual, literary, performing and new media. Headlands Center for the Arts also provides Bridge residencies by nomination to artists who are leaders in using the creative process as a catalyst for social change.

Headlands offers residencies to artists from across the U.S. and around the world, from places such as Sweden, Denmark, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy, India, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico and more than 20 other countries.