The Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego is pleased to invite applications to the Art Practice concentration in the Ph.D. program in Art and Media History, Theory, and Criticism. The concentration is designed for artists whose practice employs, critiques or otherwise engages research methodologies and disciplinary protocols from the humanities, social sciences and sciences. This is a concentration within an existing art and media history Ph.D. program rather than an independent art practice doctorate. As a result, art practice candidates are required to fulfill the same academic requirements as other Ph.D. students, including two to three years of graduate level course work in art and media history, theory and criticism, language exams, passage of a formal qualifying exam, and submission of a dissertation prospectus. Their dissertations, however, combine a shorter written component with a completed art project (film, video, exhibition, installation, public project, etc.). Applicants should have some academic or professional background in art and media history, theory and criticism as well as an established, research-based art practice.
The UCSD Visual Arts department is recognized as one of the preeminent centers for contemporary art and media practice in the country, combining a vibrant MFA program with a Ph.D. program that has become a magnet for ambitious scholars committed to historical and theoretical research into contemporary art and media. Students entering the Art Practice concentration need either a master’s degree (M.F.A., M.A.) or a bachelor’s degree (B.A, B.F.A., B.S.). Applicants must submit academic transcripts, GRE scores, three letters of recommendation, a statement of purpose, a CV, a sample of scholarly writing in art or media history and theory (20 pages minimum), and a portfolio or other representation of their art practice by January 2, 2009 for admission during the Fall of 2009. The statement of purpose should describe the applicant’s past work and it’s relationship to art and media history and theory, their goals in the Ph.D. program, and how they plan to make use of the resources offered by the Visual Arts department and the university as a whole. Information is available on-line at: http://visarts.ucsd.edu/ or contact Professor Grant Kester: [email protected]
Faculty
Amy Adler
Drawing, photography, painting and performance
Amy Alexander
Digital media and visual performance practice
Sheldon Brown
Augmented reality and computer games
Norman Bryson
Modern Asian art and visual culture, European art since 1700, critical theory, contemporary art and art writing.
Jordan Crandall
Media art and theory
Teddy Cruz
Public Culture, architecture and urbanism practice and theory
Ricardo Dominguez
New media art, performance art, hacktivism, artivism and nanoculture
Steve Fagin
Video, film and curatorial practice
Anya Gallaccio
Sculpture and installation
Jean-Pierre Gorin
Film, film theory, criticism, writing
Jack Greenstein
Renaissance art history and theory
Louis Hock
Public art, installation art and media practice and history
Adriene Jenik
Telecommunications and media arts
Grant Kester
Contemporary art and aesthetics, history of photography, history and theory of social movements
Fred Lonidier
Photography
Kim MacConnel
Painting
Babette Mangolte
Film, photography, writing
Lev Manovich
New media theory, history and art practice
Elizabeth Newsome
Ancient to Contemporary Native North American art history, the Southwest and Mesoamerica, Ethnoaesthetics and philosophy of art
Sheldon Nodelman
Classical antiquity and twentieth-century art history and theory
Rubén Ortiz-Torres
Photography, painting, sculpture, video and installation
Kyong Park
Architecture, art, urban theory and activism
Jennifer Pastor
Sculpture, installation, drawing and painting
Kuiyi Shen
Modern and contemporary Chinese and Japanese Art
Ernest Silva
Painting, drawing and sculpture
Cauleen Smith
Film, video and installation
Susan Smith
Late medieval and northern Renaissance art history
Brett Stalbaum
New media environmental performance Art
Haim Steinbach
The Object: concept, context, sculpture
Phel Steinmetz
Digital photography and video
Lesley Stern
Film history and theory, writing, cultural history of gardens
Roberto Tejada
Modern Latin American and U.S. Latino art history
Michael Trigilio
Film, video, installation and radio
John Welchman
Modern art history and theory, criticism, visual-cultural studies
For more information go to: http://visarts.ucsd.edu/
