Fwd: Art Video MFA at Syracuse University

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: Oct 23, 2006 12:49 PM
Subject: Art Video MFA at Syracuse University

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Dear Colleagues:

I'm writing to ask if you know any good prospects for graduate school. We
offer an MFA in Art Video, an interdisciplinary graduate degree in our
Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University.

We expect our MFA candidates to concentrate their research in video, but
encourage a wide spectrum of art-making including performance,
experimental narrative, documentary, video sculpture, installation, and
network and systems approaches. Grad students in Art Video mix with
fellow students and faculty in photography, film and computer art through
elective studies and collaborative initiatives. Transmedia and Syracuse
University offer a wide range of academic options including media art
history and theory courses, as well as diverse studies throughout the
humanities and sciences.

Our MFA is a three-year degree, and we offer plenty of opportunities for
our grad students to teach, as TAs or adjunct instructors. This has made
our graduates very successful in landing teaching jobs. Sarah Abbott,
Assistant Professor at the University of Regina; Malgaly Ponce, Assistant
Professor at Bridgewater State College; Jeremy Drummond, Assistant
Professor at the University of Richmond; Cary Peppermint, Assistant
Professor at Colgate University; Edgar Endress, Assistant Professor at
George Mason University; are a few of our recent graduates who are now
teaching while they continue their work as media artists. Many of our
graduates decide not to teach. Bill Viola is a fine example of a Syracuse
University alumnus who decided to focus 100% of his time on his video art.

We offer our graduate students solid technical support with digital
camcorders, non-linear editing stations, multi-format transfer systems,
DVD burners, DLP video projectors, etc., and 24-hour access to these
assets. Our critique rooms are equipped with large plasma screens and our
video art archive of tapes and DVDs is second to none.

Financial support is available through Graduate and Teaching
Assistantships (TA and GA support includes tuition and cash stipends) and
Syracuse University Fellowships (full tuition and cash stipends completely
free of GA/TA duties in the first and third years) on a competitive basis.

Syracuse has a burgeoning media arts scene with a lot happening on campus
and off. Spark Contemporary Art, SU's Warehouse Gallery, Light Work, the
Syracuse Film and Video Festival, and the Everson Museum of Art feature
screenings and exhibitions throughout the year. New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, Montreal, Ottawa, Buffalo and Toronto are all within easy
striking distance

To find out more about Syracuse University's Art Video MFA program, check
out the Department of Transmedia website at: http://transmedia.syr.edu
(click on Art Video) Feel free to contact me directly for further
information: Professor Tom Sherman, [email protected], or by phone at
315-443-1202. I am the Art Video MFA program coordinator.

All best wishes,

Tom Sherman
Art Video, Department of Transmedia

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Professor Tom Sherman
Syracuse University
Department of Transmedia
102 Shaffer Art
Syracuse, New York 13244-1210
U.S.A.

tel) 315-443-1202
fax) 315-443-1303

e-mail: [email protected]

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