From: Anne Helmond <a.helmond@UVA.NL>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 11:29:26 +0100
# Call for Applications 2017-18 # MA New Media and Digital Culture (University of Amsterdam) One-year and two-year international Master’s programs in New Media available: * MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (one year, full time) * Research MA Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture (two years, full time) -- # MA New Media and Digital Culture The MA Program in Media Studies: New Media and Digital Culture offers a comprehensive and critical approach to new media research, practices and theory. It is an internationally renowned program in critical media theory, dedicated to the study of the social transformations brought about by digital culture. The program provides in-depth training in the latest digital research methods, with the opportunity to participate in data sprints and to collaborate with international researchers. It is situated within a pioneering new media cultural scene in Amsterdam and an academic environment ranked among the top 6 universities worldwide (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2016: Communication & Media Studies). # Application and Deadlines As of mid-November 2016, it will be possible to apply for a Master's programme at the Graduate School of Humanities. All Master's start in September 2017. http://gsh.uva.nl/prospective-masters-students/application/application.html For more information about the program, please see the full call: http://bit.ly/NMDC_Call1718 Best regards, Anne Helmond --- Dr. Anne Helmond | Assistant Professor | Program Director MA New Media & Digital Culture University of Amsterdam | Turfdraagsterpad 9 | 1012 XT Amsterdam | The Netherlands http://www.uva.nl/profile/a.helmond | http://www.annehelmond.nl/ | @silvertje Latest publications: Helmond, Anne. 2015. “The Platformization of the Web: Making Web Data Platform Ready.” Social Media + Society 1 (2). doi:10.1177/2056305115603080.
From: Oliver Grau <Oliver.Grau@DONAU-UNI.AC.AT>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:43:32 +0100
CALL FOR PROPOSALS to host the 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology: Re:2019 The Media Art Histories Board invites applications to host the 8th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. The international conference series, which was inaugurated in 2005 in Banff, Canada, has since been held in several international venues around the globe including Berlin in 2007, Melbourne 2009, Liverpool 2011, Riga 2013, Montreal 2015 and will be held this fall in Paris. The conference series aims to engage the growing community of scholars from a range of disciplines including art history, contemporary art practice, art theory, history of science, history of technology, science and technology studies, media studies, image science, visual studies, philosophy, cultural studies, anthropology, architecture theory, sound studies, computer science among others to develop and share new research and scholarship in the intersecting fields of the histories of media art, science and technology. The host of the conference in 2019 will have the opportunity to continue to build on the impressive history of the conference series. CONFERENCE SERIES MISSION *Recognizing the increasing significance of media art for our culture, the conference series on the Histories of Media Art will discuss the history of media arts within the interdisciplinary and intercultural contexts of the histories of the arts. Numerous individuals and institutions collaborate to produce the international art history conference series covering the media arts, the arts and technology, art-science interaction, and the history of media as pertinent to the contemporary arts.* GUIDELINES, SELECTION CRITERIA AND DEADLINES Proposals to host the conference will include the following information: 1. Proposed Dates 2. Proposed Venues (including information on number, capacity and AV and network capabilities of spaces) 3. Rationale for hosting the conference 4. Host Local Organizing Committee 5. Relevant previous experience (e.g., committee members* experience in hosting conferences, events, etc.) 6. Publicity Plan 7. Funding / Sponsorship plan 8. Preliminary Budget Those interested in making a bid to host the conference can download GUIDELINES here (http://www.mediaarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MAH-conf-guidelines_2019.pdf) Deadline for final submission of proposals: March 31, 2017 MAH Advisory Boards final decision for the 2015 host: June 31, 2017. *********************************** MediaArtHistory Board (Steering Committee) Sean CUBITT Goldsmiths College, University of London Jorge LAFERLA University of Buenos Aires Oliver GRAU Danube University Linda HENDERSON, University of Texas, Austin Erkki HUHTAMO University of California Los Angeles Douglas KAHN University of New South Wales Martin KEMP Oxford University Timothy LENIOR Duke University Machiko KUSAHARA Waseda University, Tokyo Gunalan NADARAJAN University of Michigan Paul THOMAS UNSW Sydney MEDIA ART HISTORIES PLATTFORM www.mediaarthistory.org ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART www.digitalartarchive.at LIVERPOOL DECLARATION: http://www.mediaarthistory.org/declaration CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS http://www.mediaarthistory.org/pub/mediaarthistories.html http://www.mediaarthistory.org/pub/place_studies.html http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/relive ------------------------------------------------------- Univ.-Prof. Dr. habil. Dr. h.c. Oliver Grau, MAE Head Department for Image Science Head Lab for Digital Humanities DANUBE UNIVERSITY Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Strasse 30 3500 Krems, AUSTRIA www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw ADA – Archive of Digital Art www.digitalartarchive.at GSSG - Göttweig online www.gssg.at
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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 05:32:23 -0800
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