Programme Type: International Master Programme in Cooperation with the University of Art and Design Linz and the Anton Bruckner Private University, Austria

Language: English

Duration: 4 semesters

The design of musical instruments is already looking back to a long cultural and artistic tradition throughout the millennia. With the development of electronic music during the last century we have  experienced a radical paradigmatic shift, which accelerated during the past decades through the further advances in digitalization of music and the following virtualization of instruments. Postdigital Lutherie intends to reflect these developments by reconnecting the various aspects of acoustic, electronic and digital design of musical instruments again within tangible sonic artifacts for musical expression. This opens new design perspectives and artistic possibilities for established cultural techniques and musical practices in the context of an ongoing digitalization.

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Research Fellow in Artistic Research – The new networks

Media channels and social networks have provided new opportunities for influencing social and political opinion. In a crisis, such as the one we experience with the Covid 19 pandemic, the degree of argumentation and deep understanding of the causes, dynamics and societal values is often extremely reduced, and in this context media platforms can represent a threat to critical interpretation and tolerance in public understanding.

We hereby call for candidates who can research and investigate new public online scenarios. We are looking for proposals that explore the new technological possibilities and social movements related to these in a critical and artistic context.

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Research Fellow in Artistic Research – Virtual reality

We are looking for projects centred around questions related to narrativity and which include aesthetic and ethical perspectives. The overall goal should be to investigate on how visual language can gain new meaning in VR-experiences.

The proposed project must be an investigation of communication and narrativity in relation to/and using virtual reality (VR). The person, who receives the position will be engaged in the development of one of the department’s focus areas; human centred technology in a critical perspective.

Applications by June 21, 2021

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Find current information at: KYOTO INSPIRATION: 2021 (kyoto-seika.ac.jp)

The application period is from March 15th – April 15th. Find the application forms here: KYOTO INSPIRATION: 2021 (kyoto-seika.ac.jp)

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(This program is not yet confirmed, due to present travel restrictions; a quarantine period may also be required)

Proposals reception closing: Wednesday, March 31
Communication of the winners: Tuesday, April 27.

More information about the scholarships available at: Financing and Scholarships | Elisava

The unprecedented Covid crisis has been and still is, very challenging on many sides for HEIs all over the world, not only because of the need of implementing new learning methods that take advantage of the Information and Communication Technologies but also because of the drastic reduction or the interruption of the fluxes of International Exchange.

This was the topic of the Global Conversation “The Immediate Future of Student Exchanges”, organized by the working group X-files for Internationalization and hosted by Cumulus Connects on December 10th. I had the opportunity to moderate the session with an extraordinarily rich and diverse panel of speakers who addressed many ideas on how to approach student exchanges and international mobility with a new mindset, considering that the Covid crisis is a turning point also for education.
Even if there is a broad consensus on the fact that for Art, Design, and Media studies, face-to-face activities have a primary and irreplaceable role in learning processes based on human contact, it is now evident that this situation is also an opportunity for reformulating the modalities of such a “contact” with the help of technology. After a welcome by Mariana Amatullo, focused on the central role of internationalization in Arts and Design education, Philipp Heidkamp discussed
the need for new perspectives on international collaboration through concepts as New Normal, New Mobilities, New Experiences, New Formats, and New Collaborations. A recent example of how these concepts have been applied was explained by Sara Xiangjie Chen, presenting the dynamics of incoming and outgoing mobility in China during the pandemics.
As Hilary Collins remarked, there is a fundamental value in the mobility dimension of the international exchanges, since the fact of living in another country and city is part of an immersive cultural experience. It is important to be aware that learning in a remote or blended format is something different from a traditional exchange, even if there are strategies for promoting collaboration and interaction. The present situation is, again, an opportunity for HEIs to be creative and imagine new forms of “mobility”, which don’t require the traditional journey and propose new forms of “international exchange”, which could also benefit students who can’t access the traditional mobility formats. Maria Hansen developed a broad reflection on the opportunities, focusing on the role of the digital environment and the mobility at home as territories to be explored. Albert Fuster remarked how it is possible to bring part of the contextual experience of exchange even in the remote teaching since there are persons belonging to different places and design cultures behind the screen.

The success of new forms of mobility remote or blended depends also on the support of institutions that promote exchange programs like the Erasmus+ in the EU, which, as José Ravenstein explained, are opening up new modalities of collaboration in the next future.

We encourage you to view the video recording of the session at cumulusconnects.org

Paulo Sustersic

Please see the summary in PDF here.

In the summer semester 2020, the Klimasemester, the Cumulus member, FH Potsdam jointly focused on the challenges of the climate crisis and developed transdisciplinary approaches and sustainable actions for the here and now. 
The KLIMASCHAU presents the results of the Klimasemester in a digital exhibition.

Visit the exhibition online: https://klimaschau.fh-potsdam.de/en

Starting on March 1st, 2021 we launch our new five-semester joint master’s programme in “Global Challenges + Sustainable Developments“ offered by University of Applied Arts Vienna and Tongji University Shanghai!

Deadline for submissions is September 25th. Apply now!

The master’s programme, offered by two Cumulus member institutions, with a workload of 150 ECTS addresses international students from all art and design fields as well as from all scientific and scholarly disciplines with a special interest in inter- and cross-disciplinary working as well as in the intercultural exchange between China and the Western world.

Students are trained in artistic methods, creative strategies, and design-thinking concepts, as well as inter- and transcultural competences for a critical reflection and consideration of the global impacts of economic and political changes by a two-semester stay abroad.

Graduates will work as experts in transformative innovation processes as well as transcultural translators in Chinese-European cross-disciplinary projects.

More info on study profile, application + admission, focus fields, curriculum, and more here:

https://ipsd.uni-ak.ac.at/programmes/global-challenges-sustainable-developments/

Register for the online INFO DAY on July 15th, 2 – 4 pm CET, here: ipsd@uni-ak.ac.at

Credits:
Florian Schinnerl: C* Survival Kit. What do you need to survive [insert crisis here]?
(realised during the course „Introduction to Artistic Strategies“ at department CDS during the summer term 2019)
Photo: Leo Schatzl
Design: Jana Frantal

Congratulations to all the institutions who made the cut!

Please see the ranking list here.

Launching in June, the Master of Creative Intelligence and Strategic Innovation (MCISI) is an enterprise-focused postgraduate program that helps organisations unlock the innovation capacity of their people and apply leading edge approaches to business problems in a uniquely immersive learning environment.

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