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SCHOLARSHIPS TRANSART INSTITUTE announced today that three scholarships of USD 15000 each are available for students from Eastern Europe and developing countries and six scholarships of 2000 and 1000 USD respectively are available to students from anywhere to participate in the international MFA program. Online application form: http://www.friendsoftransartinstitute.org/Pages/MFA- Application.html In the highly individualized low-residency MFA program students create their own course of study working on art and research projects off-site with the support of faculty and self- chosen artist mentors. The independent study is complemented by three intensive summer residencies where lectures, critiques, seminars, performances, exhibitions, and workshops take place on-site in Europe. The low-residency format permits continuing a professional life while participating in the program. Scholarships are given on the basis of artistic merit and financial need. All media and genres. Deadline for scholarships and rolling admissions: May 1, 2008. Further information: http://www.transartinstitute.org/ SUMMER PROGRAM ANNOUNCING the 2008 summer program to be held at the OK Center for Contemporary Art from July 13 - August 1. The full program is available online: http://www.transartinstitute.org/Newpages/Residencies_Summer.html Guest lectures open to the public will include: Gulsen Bal: Xenophobia - The Creative Moment of Encounters Curatorial Projects. Bal, a visual artist, theoretician explores the notions of the difference of identity and difference, minority, exilic discourse and border phenomena within cultural geography. She is currently Director for Openspace, Zentrum f=FCr Kunstprojekte, Vienna. http://www.art- axis.org/ ubermorgen.com (Lizvlx + Hans Bernhard): "Artist talk" One of the most unmatchable identities - controversial and iconoclast - of the contemporary European techno-fine-art avant-garde, their open circuit of conceptual art, drawing, software art, pixel-painting, installations, net.art, sculpture and digital activism transforms their brand into a hybrid Gesamtkunstwerk. www.ubermorgen.com General information: www.transartinstitute.org Questions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Klaus Knoll, Dr. phil. Director, Transart Institute www.transartinstitute.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] USA: 347 410 9905 Fax: 508 682 2853
