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SFU (Vancouver)
MA in Comparative Media Arts
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MA in Comparative Media Arts
School for the Contemporary Arts
Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
Starts September 2013
Contact
:
Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt, Graduate Program Chair arne_e@sfu.ca
Dr. Laura U. Marks, School for the Contemporary Arts lmarks@sfu.ca
Graduate program secretary mfagrad@sfu.ca
Application deadline: March 15, 2013
The MA in Comparative Media Arts is at the forefront of an emergent intermedial approach to
the arts. A radical mutuality characterizes the relationships among the visual arts, visual culture,
performing arts, and art forms that incorporate reproducible and digital media. This program
thinks across the media arts in a comparative perspective that synthesizes the historical and
theoretical approaches of art history, cinema studies, performance studies, and studies of
computer‐based arts.
With its intimate scale, interdisciplinary design, and faculty of international reputation,
The School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU provides a rich environment for scholars of the
fine and performing arts. This MA will allow scholars to immerse themselves in an environment
of creative experimentation, working in parallel with students in the interdisciplinary MFA
program.
The MA in Comparative Media Arts prepares students for work as curators, cultural
programmers, arts administrators, arts writers, and other careers in the arts. It also prepares
students for a range of PhDs that study the fine and performing arts, including practice‐based
PhDs.
Program of study
The MA in Comparative Media Arts is a four‐semester, seven‐course program, culminating in a
public symposium. The research methods course introduces methods appropriate to the
comparative study of the media arts, drawn from art history, cinema studies, studies of the
media arts, performance studies, and related disciplines. Seminars give students a strong
grounding in new developments in visual culture, cinema studies, digital art studies, and
performance studies. Students also take an elective from an array of courses across the
university, or the practicum in comparative media arts, in which students work on focused
projects in the local arts community. The research colloquium prepares students in research
presentation and professional development, including grant applications, teaching skills, and
revising for publication. In the extended essay students research in depth a topic in comparative
media arts and develop an original argument, with the goal of producing an essay suitable for
publication.
Application Process
Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in visual culture, art history, cinema studies,
performance studies, cultural studies, communications, literary studies, or other degrees
focusing on the arts. Applications with Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees that include substantial
scholarly studies will also qualify.
Deadline
:
All required documents must be received by March 15, 2013.
A COMPLETE APPLICATION REQUIRES:
1. On‐line Application for Graduate Studies, on SFU's Dean of Graduate Studies web site.
2. Official sealed
Transcripts
of all post‐secondary education.
3. A
Curriculum Vitae
.
4. A sample of
Academic Writing
, 2000‐3000 words. Acceptable samples include senior
undergraduate essays or other academic writing and published articles.
5. Three (3)
Letters of Reference
from academic or professional sources. Letters may be
included with your application but must be in an envelope which the referee has signed across
the sealed flap. Letters may also be mailed directly to the address above by the referee.
6.
International students
: English is the language of instruction and communication in the
University. The School for Contemporary Arts requires English proficiency as outlined on SFU's
Dean of Graduate Studies web site. Please note that we must receive test results directly from
the testing agency.
Funding
:
Students are eligible for fellowships, teaching assistantships, and research assistantships. We
also encourage students to apply for funding before entering the program.
Faculty
:
Dr. Henry Daniel
Research specialization: Research‐creation; performance studies; dance theory and criticism;
dance and new technology
Dr. Arne Eigenfeldt
Research specialization: Generative art; computational creativity; new media and performance
Dr. Jacqueline Levitin
Research specialization: Film history; genre studies; women filmmakers; Chinese cinemas; art of
film directing; post‐colonial cinemas
Dr. Laura Marks
Research specialization: Film theory; new media art; experimental media; art and philosophy;
Deleuze; Islamic art and philosophy, Arab cinema
Dr. Denise Oleksijczuk
Research specialization: Visual culture; photography; pre‐cinematic media arts; nineteenth‐
century British art; curating
Dr. Christopher Pavsek
Research specialization: Non‐fiction cinema and art; cinema studies; critical theory; Marxist
theory
Professor Judy Radul
Research specialization: Video; contemporary art and theory; art and law; performance;
performativity; questions of the image
