14 April: fyi -- phd funding, Edinburgh
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Edinburgh College of Art - PhD Studentship.
?13,290 per annum maintenance will be provided, and course fees will
be paid for three years.
Research proposals are invited from applicants who wish to undertake a
practice-based PhD researching networked, distributed and
collaborative authorship in electronic arts and literature practices
and the subsequent implications for how creative communities form and
creative practice emerges. The PhD research project will explore
questions through employing theoretical and practical methods within
the context of a larger European wide research project.
Developing a Network-Based Creative Community: Electronic Literature
as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice is a 1 million
Euro, three year research project funded by the Humanities in the
European Research Area Joint Research Programme. The project involves
an academic consortium, including Edinburgh College of Art, University
of Bergen (Norway), Blekinge Institute of Technology (Sweden),
University of Amsterdam (Nederlands), University of Ljubljana
(Slovenia), University of Jyv?skyl? (Finland) and University College
Falmouth (England). Focusing on a particular creative community, of
electronic literature practitioners, the project inquires into how
creative communities of practitioners form within transnational and
transcultural contexts, within a globalised and distributed
communications environment, seeking to gain insight into and
understanding of the social effects and manifestations of creativity.
Creative communities can be regarded as microcosms of larger
communities. Within networked culture creative communities tend to be
international and yet reflective of cultural specificity, acting as a
lens through which social change can be observed. Such communities
exist as local and global phenomena, in ?creative cities? and ?global
networks?, and appear to draw value from this conjunction of
opposites. Whilst creativity is often perceived as the product of the
individual artist, or creative ensemble, it can also be considered an
emergent phenomenon of communities, driving change and facilitating
individual or ensemble creativity. Creativity can be a performative
activity released when engaged through and by a community and can thus
be considered an activity of exchange that enables (creates) people
and communities. Understanding creativity as emergent from and innate
to the interactions of people facilitates a non-instrumentalist
analysis.
The successful candidate will work with Principal Investigator
Professor Simon Biggs, Co-Investigator Dr. Penny Travlou and Dr. Scott
Rettberg (University of Bergen, Project Leader), producing a body of
their own creative work, a thesis, assisting with ethnographic
fieldwork, associated research, publications, the project conference
and exhibition. They will liaise with project partners, particularly
the University of Bergen and Blekinge Institute of Technology (Maria
Engberg and Talan Memmott), on the design and development of the
project website and DVD anthology of artists' networked practice, as
well as University College Falmouth (Jerome Fletcher) and New Media
Scotland, preparing a programme of performance based electronic
literature as part of the final exhibition and conference.
Candidates should possess either a Masters or a 1st or 2:1 degree in a
relevant digital and creative arts, design or computing discipline, or
have equivalent experience and skills, and be a practising artist or
author in the field of electronic arts and literature. Skills in
digital media design will be advantageous. The studentship will begin
in September 2010 for a period of three years. For UK and EU students,
the remuneration will be at the Arts and Humanities Research Council
studentship rate and all fees will be paid. For non-EU students the
remuneration will cover approximately 1/3 of the annual student fees.
Students on programmes at eca graduate with an award from the
University of Edinburgh.
Further details on the project can be found at: http://www.elmcip.net/
Informal enquiries should be addressed to: Professor Simon Biggs. +44
(0)131 221 6084 s.biggs@eca.ac.uk
To apply please send a proposal and an application form to the
Academic Registry, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place,
Edinburgh EH3 9DF UK. Tel: +44(0)131 221 6291. Guidelines and forms
are available at: http://www.eca.ac.uk/index.php?id=379
Closing date for applications: 5pm on Friday May 14, 2010. Shortlisted
applicants will be informed via email by May 20 and interviews will be
held on Friday May 28, 2010.
For further information on eca, please visit: http://www.eca.ac.uk
For further information about the studentship please see:
http://www.eca.ac.uk/index.php?id=1041
eca is an accredited institution of the University of Edinburgh and a
charity registered in Scotland No: SC009021.
Simon Biggs
s.biggs@eca.ac.uk ?simon@littlepig.org.uk ?Skype: simonbiggsuk
http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
Research Professor ?edinburgh college of art ?http://www.eca.ac.uk/
Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/
Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in
Practice ?http://www.elmcip.net/
Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland,
number SC009201
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