Applications are now being accepted for the University of Colorado at Boulder's practice-based PhD in Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance. We would be grateful if you would pass this announcement on to any students or colleagues you think might be interested in our program, especially as we are trying to continue building as diverse a cohort as possible.

The Intermedia Art, Writing and Performance (IAWP) unit is entering its fourth year and is an interdisciplinary digital arts and humanities research unit with a practice-based PhD. Located in the University of Colorado's College of Media, Communication and Information, IAWP's core faculty collaboratively investigate past and present forms of digital art, writing, and performance and offer graduate students a hands-on, experiential-based learning environment in which to explore emerging forms of creativity triggered by practice-based research methodologies. The program concentrates its curriculum on digital forms of creativity so as to cultivate cutting-edge investigations into the practice, theory, history, and philosophy of media and its relationships to creativity, communication, technology, and information.

IAWP’s internationally-renowned and affiliated faculty network collaborate with graduate students probing the significance of a digitally-expanded, process-based research environment located in a cluster of interdisciplinary research labs. The program provides a flexible pedagogical structure that will lead to the creation of new and hybridized forms of art, writing, performance, scholarship, theory, design, curation, exhibition, and publication appropriate for our current cultural moment.

For this upcoming application cycle, faculty are particularly interested in PhD students wishing to pursue creative investigations into the following general subject areas:

· emerging forms of electronic literature, net art, and digital publishing
· media archaeology, retrocomputing, and experimental archival and curation practices

Application deadlines:
International: December 1, 2018
Domestic: January 1, 2019

To find out more about IAWP as well as application guidelines and program requirements, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/cmci/academics/phd-intermedia-art-writing-and-performance

For more on the IAWP faculty, please visit: http://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/intermedia-art-writing-and-performance