Overview
Stony Brook University seeks applicants for a combined MFA in Studio Art and Research Fellowship. This is a funded opportunity offering tuition scholarship and research assistantship for an artist working with data, emerging, digital or computational media combined with an interest in race, gender, aging, social engagement, or human futurity. The successful applicant will help build the Future Histories Studio while participating in the Studio Art MFA Program at Stony Brook University.
MFA students at Stony Brook enjoy spacious private studios, multiple campus-based galleries in which to show work and upon completion a terminal degree that qualifies graduates to teach at the university level.
Requirements
A deep interest and practice in the intersection of equity and emerging technologies. The ability to research, learn and implement new skills and knowledge on an ongoing basis. An undergraduate degree in a related field from an accredited institution. Technical skills and experience highly encouraged, but not required. IRL participation required (covid conditions permitting)
Applications available April 18, 2021
Apply: https://graduateschool.stonybrook.edu/apply/
Deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until May 10, 2021
Future History Studio
The Future History Studio (FHS) is a new laboratory for emerging modes of arts-centered research, production, and presentation. It is an exploratory hub for those interested in hybrid inquiry and developing practice-based research at the intersections of art, technology, race, storytelling, and social justice.
The FHS experiments with art at the intersection of emerging technologies. Specific research areas include, but are not limited to artificial intelligence, blockchain, robotics, and bio-art inclusive of computer vision, data equity, community agreement, governance, and care. Emphasis is on art and knowledge production exploring concepts, questions, and intuitions through free study, practice, craft, tinkering, and collaboration with the aim of combating techno supremacy by modeling and alternative methodologies with the potential for tangible social impact.
FHS is part of The Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, & Optimism (DISCO) network. Initiated in April 2021 with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation, DISCO envisions a new anti-racist, anti-ableist digital future through a speculative, experimental, nuanced, and critical lens to be investigated with a variety of approaches at labs on five leading public research universities. The DISCO network consists of professor Lisa Nakamura and associate professor Remi Yergeau, University of Michigan; André Brock, Georgia Institute of Technology; Rayvon Fouché, Purdue University; Catherine Knight Steele, the University of Maryland; and Stephanie Dinkins, Stony Brook University.
Masters of Fine Arts (MFA)
The MFA in Studio Art is a three-year, critically engaged, creative practice program that fosters interdisciplinary study in the visual arts. The curriculum offers the opportunity to engage in intensive artistic research, interacting with artist peers and scholars in the department and across campus. Supported by a vibrant research community, renowned faculty, and private art studios, our MFA candidates are well supported in the meaningful exploration of their research interests and deepening of their art practices.
Through this opportunity, support is offered for 3 years of study on-campus study resulting in an MFA and $20,000 per year stipend. As a selective program in a large, public institution, we offer graduate training with all the benefits and resources of a major research university. As a small art department, we offer students the opportunity to create individualized paths of study. Like all of our students, the student-research fellow will have access to courses from across the SBU campus including a variety of programs in the humanities, philosophy, computer science, engineering, and so on.
Our combined Studio Art and Art History faculty are internationally renowned scholars, curators, and teachers. The student-fellow will have the opportunity to work with and be mentored by artist and professor Stephanie Dinkins and work with current faculty which include: Izumi Ashizawa, Shimon Attie, Brooke Belisle, Isak Berbic, Toby Buonagurio, Barbara E. Frank, Shoki Goodarzi, Helen A. Harrison,Sohl Lee, Martin Levine, Karen Levitov, Karen Lloyd, John Lutterbie, Nobuho Nagasawa, Zabet Patterson, Howardena Pindell, Jason Paradis, Lorena Salcedo-Watson, Margaret Schedel, Maya Schindler, Katy Siegel, Andrew V. Uroskie, Lorraine Walsh.
Art Department facilities include private studios for MFA candidates, the Lawrence Alloway Gallery dedicated to MFA use, collaborative media workshops, a large sculpture shop, printshop, maker space and the flagship Zuccaire Art Gallery.
To be considered applications must be received by May 10, 2021, at 11:59 EST.
Related Links:
Stony Brook Department of Art
Other Graduate Programs at Stony Brook https://grad.stonybrook.edu/academics/academic_programs.php
Apply: https://graduateschool.stonybrook.edu/apply/
For more information about FHS & DISCO, contact: stephanie.dinkins@stonybrook.edu
