Dear All, The program for our annual winter event is set. You're cordially invited to attend.
Open House and Artist Talks Meet faculty, students and directors, ask questions about the program in public and in private, and join us for a reception followed by three artist talks on Saturday, February 3 at Point B in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The talks will be given by: Rockefeller and Guggenheim fellowship recipient Su Friedrich (www.sufriedrich.com) whose multi-lingual films moving fluidly between the personal and the political have been shown in retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in NY and the Whitney Museum of American Art; Jean Maria Casbarian (www.jeanmariecasbarian.com) who incorporates photography, film and video projections, sound, sculpture and performance into her artworks which "probe and investigate social and cultural behavior, human limitation, and circularity"; and José Ruiz (www.joseruizart.com), co-founder of the formerly DC-based Decatur Blue artists collective who specializes in "translating ideas into tangible forms ... to add an individualistic and centralized perspective to ongoing global conversations". Public Lecture Then come back on Sunday for the curatorial lecture by Elizabeth Gwinn: "From Art on the Beach to Art on the MoMA: the Mainstreaming of Alternative Exhibition Strategies" and join us for the final reception. To RSVP and get specifics, please drop us a line at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Individual Appointments for future students are available from February 5 to 8. Please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] if interested in talking about applying to the program. Meet the Mentors In order for students and mentors to meet up we are hosting a "Meet the Mentors". There are three spots left. If you are a mentor and will be in the area February 2, and would like to introduce yourself to the students, show a minute of your work and join us for a reception to discuss working with students, please let us know: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a modest honorarium for this presentation. If you aren't a mentor yet but would like to be, here's info and a brief online form: http:// transartinstitute.org/Pages/Mentors.html and to see who you would be joining: http:// transartinstitute.org/Pages/Mentorlist.html Hope to see you there, Cella and Klaus Cella, MFA Klaus Knoll, Dr. phil. Directors, Transart Institute www.transartinstitute.org USA: 415 367 3470 Fax: 508 682 2853 Europe: +43 (699) 1169 0277 (July and August only) Transart Institute Master of Fine Arts in New Media Transart Institute, in cooperation with Donau University Krems, offers an international low residency graduate art program leading to a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in New Media. Students pursue work in media art-related genres and create their own course of study. For two years, students work independently on art and research projects off-site with the support of faculty and self-chosen artist mentors. Lectures, critiques, performances, exhibitions, seminars and workshops take place in three intensive summer residencies on- site. The low-residency format permits students to continue with their professional life while participating in the program. Genres include: Animation, Architecture, Curatorial work, Cyber Art, Film, Game Design, Graphic Design, Installation Art, Interactive Art, Interdisciplinary Art, Performance Art, Photography, Sound, Text Art, Video Winter Residency (Optional) 2007: February 1-4, 2007 Location: Point B, Brooklyn, New York Summer Residency 2007: July 11-28, 2007 Location: O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, Austria: www.ok-centrum.at
