[Softwareandculture] Piet Zwart Institute
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Tue, 28 May 2002 19:33:55 +0000
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Announcing a new MA in Media Design
Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The MA in Media Design is a new 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, rythmnic, economic, 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 commited 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.
The MA course lasts two years and is carried out as a series of group
and self-initiated projects. In certain cases participation in
single projects may be arranged. Core themes in our programme are:
transmission, use, behaviour, and experience; knowledge and memory;
the political economy of the information society; citizens and
consumers, public and private identities; urban and virtual reality,
network and diaspora.
Find more information at http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/
Applications for 2002-2003 are welcome until September 1.
For further information contact Femke Snelting, F.Snelting@hro.nl
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<div><tt><font size="+1">Announcing a new MA in Media
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<div><tt><font size="+1">Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands</font></tt></div>
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<div><tt><font size="+1">The MA in Media Design is a new course
offered by the Piet Zwart Institute. We are the postgraduate
centre for art and design of the Willem de Kooning Academy, Hogeschool
Rotterdam.</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1"><br></font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1">Systems not surfaces</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1">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, rythmnic, economic, numerical, meet
and shape each other. The role of the designer is to track, sort
and remix these dynamics in relation to others.</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1"><br></font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1">Technology, theory,
practice</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1">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 commited 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.</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1"><br></font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1">The MA course lasts two years and is carried
out as a series of group and self-initiated projects. In certain
cases participation in single projects may be arranged. Core themes in
our programme are: transmission, use, behaviour, and experience;
knowledge and memory; the political economy of the information
society; citizens and consumers, public and private identities; urban
and virtual reality, network and diaspora.</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1"><br></font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1">Find more information at
http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1">Applications for 2002-2003 are welcome until
September 1.</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font size="+1">For further information contact Femke
Snelting, F.Snelting@hro.nl</font></tt></div>
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