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ONLINE RESOURCES AND FORMS
Application Form for Teaching and/or Advising
Summer Course Topic Proposal Form
Summer Course Syllabus Form for Approved Proposals
2013 Summer Residency and Teaching Agreement Form
Faculty to Student Letter Examples
Module Outcomes
Invoice Form
File Upload Guidelines
PhD by Publication Guidelines
Getting Started Teaching Summer Residency
INTRODUCTION
Teaching at Transart Institute is a rewarding and inspiring activity. At MFA level there are opportunities for teaching intensive summer residency workshops and also for acting as Studio or Research Advisors for individual students, while there are also occasionally openings for suitably qualified staff to supervise at MPhil/PhD level. We value openness, academic and creative rigor and integrity in our teaching staff, and in return can offer the opportunity to teach in a flexible and stimulating environment. We attract students from a wide range of backgrounds and cultures, all of whom contribute to a uniquely diverse and exciting learning community. We welcome applications and enquiries from potential faculty and/or advisors from an equally broad range of backgrounds.
SUMMER FACULTY
Transart Institute engages guest artists, theorists, and curators to teach interdisciplinary creative workshops and cultural studies seminars, to give critiques and presentations in a low-residency MFA Program for either five days, or a single day, between July and August in Europe. Workshops address development of artistic praxis rather than training in specific media and authoring tools, challenging students to think conceptually and work creatively in new ways through exercises and assignments. Students partake in one elected cultural studies seminar per residency. Seminars which are the cultural studies equivalent of the workshops help students to put their work in context and find ways to inform their art projects through research while also getting experience articulating these new ideas, ways of thinking and making connections through readings, discussions, exercises and assignments. Seminars are chosen from current topics in media studies, philosophy, theory and art history. Students respond to course assignments in a variety of media, working independently between classes. Sample syllabi can be found here.
Qualifications
Artists, theorists and curators in all genres and fields with higher academic degrees (or equivalent) and generally a minimum of three years college level teaching experience.
Deadlines
Proposal topics form (required for summer courses) can be found here
Deadline for proposals is November 1st. Faculty advisory board will review all proposals.
Invitations for accepted proposals are emailed February 1st along with a request for a syllabus can be found here.
Reading material is due in the course’s blog by April 1st.
Honoraria
Summer one week session $3000.
Included in the honorarium is teaching the course and other teaching responsibilities including reviewing student presentations and meeting with students and directors.
Transportation is reimbursed and accommodations are provided.
Meal stipend is included in the honorarium.
Summer one day workshop, seminar or event $600. ($100 p/h)
Additional residency teaching contributions including reviewing student presentations is invoiced at $50 p/h by prior agreement.
Transportation is not provided for one day courses. Accommodations for teaching days, as well as the day before and after are provided if coming to teach from outside of Berlin.
Lunch is provided on location for events taking place in the residency space.
STUDIO ADVISORS
Advisors are sponsored by the Institute to work with students on their art and/or curatorial projects off-site during semesters between residencies. Responsibilities include a minimum of two meetings per semester for critiques and advisement on the student’s media independent study projects plus a mid-project and final written evaluation. Students and advisors make schedule arrangements between themselves. Deadlines for required meetings can be found in the academic calendar. Advisors are assigned to students based on their proposals. Studio and research advisors form an advisement committee and a three way project meeting is held during the summer. Individual project critiques occur twice a semester either by skype, phone or in person. Please contact Michael Bowdidge <bowdidge@transart.org> if you have concerns about a student and copy Drew Henmi <henmi@transart.org>.
Qualifications and process
Artists, theorists and curators in all genres and fields with higher academic degrees (or equivalent) and generally a minimum of three years college level teaching experience. Faculty advisory board will review all applications. Accepted applications will be made accessible to students to choose from. Students choose advisors at the summer residency for the academic year.
What is expected
Online guidance committee meetings (30 min. per semester) – 1 hour
Critiques: A minimum of two per semester (90 min. each) – 6 hours
Evaluations: Online evaluation forms with questions to consider (60 min each) – 2 hours
Consultation with faculty if needed – 1 hour
Honorarium
Students work on one project per year. The honorarium is $1000 per project or approximately $100 per hour for 10 hours of consultation per student. Advisors can work with more than one student. Payment is at the end of the project year by online invoice here after submission of evaluations.
Evaluations
There are two evaluations per project in the form of an online form here
You will be sent a reminder two weeks before evaluations are due.
The academic year begins August 15th and ends May 15th. Payment is based on evaluations. 50% for input on draft and 50% for final evaluations. If your student takes a leave of absence to complete work, you may invoice for 50% and then again for the remaining honorarium when the student returns and the evaluations can be completed.
RESEARCH ADVISORS
Advisors are sponsored by the Institute to work with students on their research papers and projects off-site during spring semester between residencies. Responsibilities include a minimum of two interactions for critiques and advisement on the student’s independent study project plus a written evaluation (through an online form). Advisors are chosen based on students’ proposals. Studio and research advisors form an advisement committee and a three way project meeting is held during the summer residency. A reasonable number of email exchanges e.g. on resources and/or examples should also be expected. Students work independently on their research in the fall, completing their reading, annotated bibliography and outline on their own, submitting these requirements on the first day of the spring semester in their Transart blogs. Your interactions start up again from the summer meetings once the student has submitted the draft to their blog. They should also email it to you. Drew will remind you when your input is due and where it should go. Please contact Michael Bowdidge <bowdidge@transart.org> if you have concerns about a student and copy Drew Henmi <henmi@transart.org>.
Qualifications and process
Theorists and curators in all genres and fields with terminal degrees or equivalent experience. Faculty advisory board will review all applications. Accepted applications will be made accessible to students to choose from. Students choose advisors at the summer residency for the academic year.
What is expected
30 minute guidance committee meeting with preparation – 1 hour
Two responses to research submission by student – 3 hours
One online evaluation form with questions to consider - 30 min.
Email exchanges – 2 hours
Length of paper
Students work on one paper per year, 10 pages for first year and 20 pages for second year students maximum unless you grant permission for more in advance.
Honorarium
The honorarium is $500 per project or approximately $100 per hour for 5-6 hours of consultation per student. There is one evaluations per project in the form of a few questions in an online form. Payment is at the end of the project year by invoice form here after submission of evaluations.
Evaluations
There is one final evaluation per project in the form of an online form here
You will be sent a reminder two weeks before evaluations are due.
The academic year begins August 15th and ends May 15th.
Payment is based on evaluations. 50% for input on draft and 50% for final evaluations. If your student takes a leave of absence to complete work, you may invoice for 50% and then again for the remaining honorarium when the student returns and the evaluations can be completed.
DIRECTOR OF STUDIES
What is expected
A three to four year committment.
An average of 24 hours per year for a full time student, 12 hours if split advisement with 2nd of three supervisors.
Four meetings per year, twice in person, twice over Skype. Travel to the UK for the final exam (viva voce).
The DoS provides guidance and writes a half page report every quarter.
All DoS have to participate once in a research advisor training, which can possibly be done by Skype.
Honorarium
$2400 p.a. per full time student, $1200 for split advisement.
Payment is at the end of the project year by online invoice here after submission of evaluations.
Note: In the British system it is generally not possible to advise on a PhD while pursuing one’s own research degree (MPhil and/or PhD)
SECOND SUPERVISORS
What is expected
12 hours per year for a full time student
Honorarium
$1200 p.a. per full time student.
Payment is at the end of the project year by online invoice here after submission of evaluations.
Note: In the British system it is generally not possible to advise on a PhD while pursuing one’s own research degree (MPhil and/or PhD).
EXTERNAL SUPERVISORS
What is expected
24 hours per year for a full time student
Honorarium
£300/year (UoP 2011)
Payment is at the end of the project year by online invoice here after submission of evaluations.
CRIT GROUP LEADERS
Crit group leaders are alumni of the MFA Creative Practice program. They moderate and contribute to four rounds of discussions by forum the fall semester and lead four rounds of live group critiques on skype in the spring.
Honorarium
The honorarium is $1000 per yearly group or approximately $50 per hour for 10 hours per semester of facilitating within a 4-week period each semester. Additionally there is one online assessment form and one faculty meeting per semester. Payment is at the end of the project year by invoice form here.
GENERAL HONORARIA
For taught courses are $100 per hour, for critiques, academic committee work, organizing events, tours, etc. $50 per hour.
STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES
For representing students and participating in the collegium student reps receive a honorarium of $250 per semester.
Student Testimonial
This program has changed my life in profound ways. My art practice is more informed, better articulated, more open, more thoughtful, more grounded in theory.- Nicki Stager
About Nicki Stager
Exploring process as concept, Nicki makes images to use as studies for installation, performance, and video work. Nicki is represented by Like the Spice Gallery in New York. Her awards include a Fulbright Teaching Scholarship and "Classroom for the Future" Grant.