Call for applications >> Educating.Curating.Managing Master Program 2016-18 Vienna

Call for applications >>educating.curating.managing  /ecm/ 2016-18
Master Program for Exhibition Theory & Practice|
Vienna| Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, October 2016 – June 2018
deadline: March 3rd 2016

/ecm/ is a postgraduate master program concerned with core competences in the expanded field of museums and exhibitions. The goal of the two-year university course is to provide the scientific fundamentals and professionalization of cultural work. An intensive engagement with theoretical positions goes together with the development of practical competences in the visualisation and realisation of projects in institutions as well as in the independent scene. The training provides the participants with the tools for work methodologies relating to cultural activity. It invites to experiment in a practice based research context. Because of its comprehensive orientation the post-diploma course of studies is preparation for undertaking challenging tasks in the curatorial field.
/ecm-Directors>>Martina Griesser, Christine Haupt-Stummer, Renate Höllwart, Beatrice Jaschke, Monika Sommer, Nora Sternfeld, Luisa Ziaja
The course is held in German and English, a minimum of B2 level of both languages are requested.
Applications until March 3rd 2016: ecm@uni-ak.ac.at

contacts:

Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien
/ecm Masterlehrgang
Oskar-Kokoschka Platz 2
1010 Vienna
www.ecm.ac.at
www.angewandte.at

Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Call for applications

Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
deadline: 1 April 2014

About the Summer Academy Programme
The 2014 Summer Academy offers 21 courses of between one and four weeks—18 in Hohensalzburg Fortress, one in the Kiefer quarry in Fürstenbrunn and two in temporary venues in the city.
How does the world come into the picture?:This is the motto of the Summer Academy's widely varied programme. It deals with the particular ability of the fine arts to generate "images" of the increasingly impenetrable world, both of its superficial outward appearance and of social and political conditions.

Thus Amelie von Wulffen begins her course with the question of how artists appropriate the world, and how it then develops into a picture, and Norbert Bisky investigates the relation between perception and image-finding. Together with his students, Doug Ashford carries out research and practical experiment on the nature of human life, bodies and politics. By establishing direct on-site collaboration, Tobias Zielonyconcentrates specifically on the use of photography to show the life-worlds of young people.

about the program 
For the first time, the Summer Academy offers a course in The Art of Writing, with art historian, critic and writer Jennifer Allen. Since the Summer Academy programme opened up to include further artistic disciplines, starting with curatorial practice, this is a logical continuation.
Cinéma copains (Arne Hector/Minze Tummescheit) demonstrate how artists today can work with analogue film in their own dark-room, showing a method developed by artists in recent years parallel to the disappearance of analogue film. Robert Kusmirowski will direct the Summer Academy's first course in the genre "Public Art"; students will move around in the city from a "home base", exploring possible and impossible ways to realise both collaborative and individual projects. In another "first", Olga Chernyshevaand Anna Jermolaewa together with their students, will work closely with the curators in Anders Kreuger's course, and reflect on how pictures function and what they signify. They will also collaborate in mounting a final presentation.
The programme approaches topical questions of contemporary art, curating and writing about art. The course subjects, the techniques taught and the teaching methods are widely diverse, but the link between them is the quest for contemporaneity – examining current aesthetic, political, social – and thus artistic – questions, and for new forms of expression.

* The title of Amelie von Wulffen's course
Teaching artists in 2014
Nancy Adajania, Jennifer Allen, Doug Ashford, Kader Attia, Sarnath Banerjee, Norbert Bisky, Olga Chernysheva/Anna Jermolaewa, cinéma copains (Arne Hector/Minze Tummescheit), Charlotte Cullinan, Adriana Czernin, Felix Gmelin, Ellen Harvey, Anders Kreuger, Robert Kusmirowski, Peter Niedertscheider, Lukas Pusch, Lucy Sarneel, Elisabeth Schmirl, Paolo Woods, Amelie von Wulffen, Tobias Zielony

about regular application
The Salzburg Summer Academy is open to anyone interested. The high quality of the courses is guaranteed by the requirement that all prospective participants must apply for acceptance. On the basis of the submitted dossier, the teaching artists select participants. The fees are between 440.- and 1,160.- EUR, depending on the duration of the course. Students are entitled to a reduced fee. All application received by 15 May 2014 will be treated equally. Later applications are welcome, and will be processed in the order received, according to vacancies in the courses.
More info and applications click here
grants
The Summer Academy offers numerous grants, covering tuition fee to participate in one of the courses. Application deadline 1 April 2014.
More info for it click here

contacts:
office@summeracademy.at
www.summeracademy.at
T +43 662 842113