Interdisciplinary Programs

[limaalpha]

First post!

 

I hoped we could start a thread for interdisciplinary programs. I don't know many of them, so I thought this might be a good place to share knowledge. 

 

I work across mediums, so I'm looking for a program that will allow me to do that.

 

 

[aschelp]

i plan on applying to: usc, university of chicago, and northwestern.

some other good ones that are too expensive or arent right for me: columbia, carnegie mellon, stanford, cornell 

[agrobaby]

I work primarily in sculpture, but I draw and perform also. I have literally worked in every medium, including sound, but I think maybe chose a program whose language fits your main interest?

 

I am more object oriented (including my body), so I'm applying to sculpture programs. I want to talk about stuff and bodies, I don't want to talk about picture planes and painting theory.

 

It doesn't seem like departments have caught up to actual artist's practices.

 

ALSO, I'm looking at the work by all the professors in departments I'm interested in. If they are working across mediums, in all likelihood, they will be open to me doing the same. 

hope that helps :-)

[FOWJS]

I'm also looking for interdisciplinary programs, specifically for music+visual art. With an undergrad degree in music performance, I now write my own music, which could loosely be called "avant-garde pop music" (in heavy quotation marks). I score all the music, the instrumentation is non-traditional, and I have a second album coming out in November that is closer in vein to contemporary 'new music' than other things I've done. In addition to this unusual composing, I'm also self-taught in the visual arts, and I've had two solo art exhibits in galleries, did a time capsule project where people brought items to include in a time capsule to be unearthed in 2059, and other audience-participatory art projects. 

 

Now I feel I've exhausted how far I can push myself, and want to expand my aesthetic and technical skills through a graduate program. Finding a program where I can both pursue music but also incorporate visual art, is proving very difficult. I was initially thinking to find a music program that would let me pursue interdisciplinarity through the visual arts, but maybe I'd be better off the other way around: finding an MFA art program that would let me write music. ??

 

Does anyone know of any MFA programs that would fit my criteria? 

Thank you!

[kafralal]

I'm also looking for interdisciplinary programs, specifically for music+visual art. With an undergrad degree in music performance, I now write my own music, which could loosely be called "avant-garde pop music" (in heavy quotation marks). I score all the music, the instrumentation is non-traditional, and I have a second album coming out in November that is closer in vein to contemporary 'new music' than other things I've done. In addition to this unusual composing, I'm also self-taught in the visual arts, and I've had two solo art exhibits in galleries, did a time capsule project where people brought items to include in a time capsule to be unearthed in 2059, and other audience-participatory art projects. 

 

Now I feel I've exhausted how far I can push myself, and want to expand my aesthetic and technical skills through a graduate program. Finding a program where I can both pursue music but also incorporate visual art, is proving very difficult. I was initially thinking to find a music program that would let me pursue interdisciplinarity through the visual arts, but maybe I'd be better off the other way around: finding an MFA art program that would let me write music. ??

 

Does anyone know of any MFA programs that would fit my criteria? 

Thank you!

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[kafralal]

I think most programs are interdisciplinary. Many seem to use the disciplines as a way of sorting applications and insuring a diverse cohort, but once you are in the program there is a tendancy to encourage working across disciplines—or at least considering it. I have come across very few that limit their conversations to a specific discipline—the seminars and crits are usually not medium specific.

[nimda]

I'm in the MFA program at Penn and i'm finding it to be quite good. It is interdisciplinary in the sense that we all are in seminars together, the crits combine the disciplines - there is writing involved - but from an exploratory sense - not so much an academic thesis. We are encouraged and required to take a few courses outside of the art department.

 

and It was just announced that three of our core grad professors will be included in the whitney biennial this spring!

 

http://www.design.upenn.edu/files/PennDesign_MFA_Catalog.pdf