<nettime-ann> Call for applications: international MFA program @ Trondheim Academy of Fine Art

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art is now accepting applications for the
International Master of Fine Arts program starting in autumn 2017.

The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (KiT) is organized as a flexible and
experimental educational and research institution and well known as the
first art academy in the Nordic countries to offer education in media
art. Since 1996 the Academy has been part of The Faculty of Architecture
and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
(NTNU). As Norway's single largest university, NTNU has 39,000 students,
distributed over 14 faculties and 70 departments, with more than 100
laboratories. Currently, the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art has 62
students: 34 BFA and 28 international MFA students. It hosts three
research fellows and 1 PhD candidate. The Academy employs ten
professors, five members of technical staff and three members of
administrative staff. It is well connected to a small but vibrant local
art scene with artist-run galleries, exhibition halls, and museums.

The International MFA program at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art is a
two-year study program designed for artists with the ambition to develop
and enrich their individual studio practice with cross-disciplinary
investigations in a wide range of different fields of knowledge.
Situated in the framework of NTNU, it is embedded in a study
environment, rich of inputs and influences from other areas of research
and methodologies that are non-artistic.

Within the program, we are looking for inquisitive minds and
disciplinary border-crossers who are interested in creating connections
between different fields of research. Students are expected to be
curious, experimental, self-driven and ambitious, with a will to
position and re-position individual artistic practice in current debates
and discourses, and within the continuously changing field of
contemporary art.

The program encourages graduate students to explore critical and
innovative practices in both individual creative work and group
projects, placing emphasis on practice-led research. The curriculum is
structured to expose students to diverse viewpoints and an array of
professional practices that reflect contemporary issues and is in
dialogue with a global community of artists and thinkers. It offers
students a wide range of educational modules including studio visits,
tutorials, group critiques, workshops, courses in theory and practice,
guest lectures, study trips, exhibitions, as well as student-led
initiatives and projects. Projects evolve through stages of conceptual
and material development towards formal and informal presentation and
critical, constructive debate.

The Academy offers each MFA student a studio space and access to
collaborative workspaces and workshops for wood, metal, plaster,
printmaking, photo, video, sound and computer-based work. Courses
currently offered focus on the notions of public space and place with
artistic, architectural and other creative practices, global approaches
to aesthetics, theory, and criticism in the context of contemporary art,
the relation of visual culture to technology and current tendencies of
digital culture and art practice. The program culminates in a thesis
project presented in a group exhibition, which is carried out in close
collaboration with Trondheim Kunstmuseum, one of the major art
institutions in Trondheim.

Current faculty includes Anne-Karin Furunes, Simon Harvey, David Rych,
Florian Schneider and Michelle Teran.

Past guest lecturers and guest faculty included: Sadie Plant, Saskia
Sassen, Nikolaus Hirsch, John Akomfrah, Kodwo Eshun, Annett Busch,
Jochen Gerz, Camille Norment, Cristina Ricupero, Michael Elmgreen &
Ingar Dragset, Marte Aas, Diedrich Diederichsen, Toril Redalen, Oren
Sagiv, Magnhild Øen Nordahl, Corinne Diserens, Sven Augustijnen, Angela
Dimitrakaki, Maurizio Lazzarato, Manon de Boer, Wilfried Kuehn, Matteo
Pasquinelli, Koyo Kouoh, among others.

Teaching language of all courses is English.

Applicants should hold a BFA degree or prove equivalent qualification
based on an artistic portfolio. There is no tuition fee, also for
students of non-EU nationalities.

International students who are not enrolled in a fellowship or
scholarship program are welcome at NTNU, provided they have proof of
sufficient funding to cover their living expenses.

The next round of admission is open. There are two required steps that
must be accomplished in order to successfully complete an application
for admission, with the following deadlines:

1. The applicant's registration at NTNU. Non-EU/non-EEA applicants:
December 2016 (EU / EEA / Norwegian applicants: March 2017) 2. The
applicant's registration and submission of supporting material at KiT:
February 2017

For more information about the program, please visit MFA at KiT. For
information about admission requirements and how to apply, please see
the application guidelines.

KiT is further hosting research fellows as part of the Norwegian
Artistic Research Fellowship Programme. In order to be admitted to the
Research Fellowship Programme, an applicant must be able to document
recognized artistic work/artistic research of a certain scope and
normally hold a master's degree. The application is written using the
program's application form and sent to one of the Norwegian institutions
of higher education affiliated to the program by December 1, 2016.

NTNU 
N-7491 Trondheim 
Norway

T +47 73 59 79 00 
F +47 73 59 79 20
adm@kit.ntnu.no
www.kit.ntnu.no

Head of the MFA program: David Rych, david.rych@ntnu.no 
Head of Department: Florian Schneider, florian.schneider@ntnu.no

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Florian Schneider
Professor
Head of department
Trondheim Academy of Fine Art
Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art 
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
http://kit.ntnu.no
florian.schneider@ntnu.no
phone: +47 7359 7903
mobile: +47 9934 5178

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