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PhD Programs & Selections Procedure

What's a PhD Research?

an original contribution to knowledge
the centrality of the thesis and the emphasis on product
the creation and interpretation of new knowledge that extends the forefront of the discipline

"A thesis is never finished, it is just abandoned at the least damaging point" (Race, 1999)

Current Online PhD Candidates

Simona Caraceni
Research Title: Museum and Technology, Applications of virtuality and multinodality in the cultural assets field

Federica Timeto
Research Title: Feminism, Postcoloniality and New Media Theory and Practice

Franco Marineo
Research Title: Reality on Finer Scale. Contemporary Cinema and Perceptive Afflictions

Jennifer Kanary
Research Title: Roomforthoughts. An artistic examination of the epistemological relation between the art practice and the scientific and philosophical problems of consciousness

Jurgen Faust
Research Title: Towards a comprehensive and universal Design Theory, Design Methods, and possible paradigm shifts

Tine Melzer
Research title: Ludwig and Gertrude. Ragged Edges and Common Places in Language - Where Text Image and Meet

Enrica Borghi
Research title: Developing Artcrafts Thought to Disappear in Nature With a Concept of Sustainable Economy

Amos Bianchi
Research title: Technologies, de-subjectivity and freedom

Denis Jaromil Roio
Research title: Libre Made Flash - Generative Patterns for Alternative Economics

Former PhD Candidates

Ale Guzzetti
Research Title: Technica curiosa. Machines, Automations, Electronic Interfaces: Art as Cognitive Science

Wolfgang Fiel
Research Title: Dissipative System, Urbanism and performance

The M-Node Research Program

M-Node is an open and competitive Graduate Program. Designed to attract talented artists, researchers and scholars, M-Node focuses exclusively on Doctoral and Postdoctoral research, on Ph.D. and Research programs, achieving a significant integration between arts and sciences, practice and theoretical framework, research and teaching and promoting a full internationalization of research.
Students are provided with a team of supervisors for their research.
M-Node as a partner of Planetary-Collegium is concerned with advanced inquiry in the transdisciplinary space between the arts,technology, and the sciences, with consciousness research an integral component of its work.

more info

News

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New Media Epic

The BLOG: http://newmediaepic.wordpress.com/

The podcast: "Bisogna farlo, il molteplice", conference by Wu Ming 1, with Francesco Monico e Derrick De Kerchkove (ITA, 90MB, download .mp3, download .zip)

DOWNLOAD THE MEMORANDUM New Italian (Media) Epic, by Francesco Monico (.pdf file, 1MB ITA - ENG)

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Planetary Collegium on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Collegium

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Consciousness Reframed

Vienna, 3 July – 5 July 2008

Theme: New Realities: Being Syncretic
A transdisciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology and society.
Partner and Host: University of Applied Arts Vienna

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The Symposium New Media Art Education & Research aims is to make an overview on the actual situation of the Italian Art and New Media Education and Research.

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Download the press release (ITA)

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FIRST INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT OF THE PLANETARY COLLEGIUM

CAiiA - Z-Node - M-Node

Disturbing, fascinating, poetical, provocative, the works and researchers of the Planetary Collegium's members reveal and explore the fundamnetal questions that are opened by the technological explosion of the topics of consciousness, life, humanity, knowledge, being-in-the-world, borders beetween natural and artificial, access to information.
65 reserachers from 15 countries will share during 4 days the result of their research creation works.

http://summit.planetary-collegium.net/

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*Creativity & Cognition 2007
*June 13-15, Washington DC, USA

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Nearly three and a half centuries of scientific study and achievement is now available online in the Royal Society Journals Digital Archive following its official launch this week. This is the longest-running and arguably most influential journal archive in Science, including all the back articles of both Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings.

TELEMATIC EMBRACE
by Roy Ascott

Engineering Nature
Art and Consciousness in
the Post-Biological Era
Edited by Roy Ascott

Artists-In-Labs Processes of Inquiry
Edited by Jill Scott

Il dramma televisivo
L'autore e l'estetica del mezzo
by Francesco Monico

Advisory and supervisor staff

Planetary Collegium Director: Roy Ascott.

Research Director:
Antonio Caronia, Accademia di Brera, Italia.

M-Node Director:
Francesco Monico,
NABA, Italia.

Supervisor:
Derrick de Kerckhove, University of Toronto, Canada.

Supervisor:
Pier Luigi Capucci, NoemaLab, Italia.

Supervisor:
Michael Punt, Reader in Art and Technology, University of Plymouth, Editor-in-Chief Leonardo Reviews, UK.

Supervisor:
Mike Philips, Director of I-DAT / Head of Nascent Art & Technology Research / University of Plymouth UK.

Advisor:
Paolo Atzori, 3D Theater NABA Research Department, Italia.

Advisor:
Elisa Giaccardi,
Research Associate, Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (L3D), University of Colorado.

Advisor:
Antonio Somaini,
Adjounct Professor Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, and Politecnico di Milano, Italia.

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