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Meine Masterstudiumwahl: Interface Culture in Linz

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Die letzte Runde im Projekt Masterstudium ist erreicht. Alle Bewerbungsbedingungen und Aufnahmeprüfungen habe ich mehr oder weniger erfolgreich absolviert, und die Ergebnisse sind nun auch schon alle eingetroffen. Erste Wahl war eigentlich die FH Potsdam, danach das HPI in Potsdam. Das lag zu einem an deren beidem guten Hochschul Ruf und an der sehr facettenreichen Stadt Berlin zum Wohnen. Leider fand ich die Aufnahmeprüfung an der FH Potsdam nicht so cool, und die ganze Kommunikation rund um die Bewerbung war mir nicht wirklich sympathisch. Daher ist es vielleicht sogar gut, dass ich von der FH Potsdam eine Absage bekommen habe und auch vom HPI... Mit diesen Absagen war Berlin für mich erledigt, und es blieb mir noch die Kunstuni in Linz und die Uni Konstanz übrig. Da fiel mir die Entscheidung am Ende nicht mehr so schwer. Da ich über mehrere Wochen hinweg ein gutes Bauchgefühl von der Kunstuni in Linz hatte.

Somit ist der ganze Prozess rund um das Finden eines Masterstudiumplatzes erfolgreich abgelaufen. Ab Anfang Oktober werde ich dann in Linz mit dem Studiengang Interface Culture an der Kunstuni Linz beginnen. Wer sich unter den Namen Interface Culture genauso wenig vorstellen kann, wie ich am Anfang. Hier eine Beschreibung:

Acting as creative artists and researchers, students learn how to advance the state of the art of current interface technologies and applications. Through interdisciplinary research and team work, they also develop new aspects of interface design including its cultural and social applications. The themes elaborated under the Master's programme in relation to interactive technologies include Interactive Environments, Interactive Art, Ubiquitous Computing, game design, VR and MR environments, Sound Art, Media Art, Web-Art, Software Art, HCI research and interaction design.

The Interface Culture program at the Linz University of Arts Department of Media was founded in 2004 by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. The program teaches students of human-machine interaction to develop innovative interfaces that harness new interface technologies at the confluence of art, research, application and design, and to investigate the cultural and social possibilities of implementing them.

The term "interface" is omnipresent nowadays. Basically, it describes an intersection or linkage between different computer systems that makes use of hardware components and software programs to enable the exchange and transmission of digital information via communications protocols.

However, an interface also describes the hook-up between human and machine, whereby the human qua user undertakes interaction as a means of operating and influencing the software and hardware components of a digital system. An interface thus enables human beings to communicate with digital technologies as well as to generate, receive and exchange data. Examples of interfaces in very widespread use are the mouse-keyboard interface and graphical user interfaces (i.e. desktop metaphors). In recent years, though, we have witnessed rapid developments in the direction of more intuitive and more seamless interface designs; the fields of research that have emerged include ubiquitous computing, intelligent environments, tangible user interfaces, auditory interfaces, VR-based and MR-based interaction, multi-modal interaction (camera-based interaction, voice-driven interaction, gesture-based interaction), robotic interfaces, natural interfaces and artistic and metaphoric interfaces.

Artists in the field of interactive art have been conducting research on human-machine interaction for a number of years now. By means of artistic, intuitive, conceptual, social and critical forms of interaction design, they have shown how digital processes can become essential elements of the artistic process.
Ars Electronica and in particular the Prix Ars Electronica's Interactive Art category launched in 1991 has had a powerful impact on this dialog and played an active role in promoting ongoing development in this field of research.

The Interface Cultures program is based upon this know-how. It is an artistic-scientific course of study to give budding media artists and media theoreticians solid training in creative and innovative interface design. Artistic design in these areas includes interactive art, netart, software art, robotic art, soundart, noiseart, games & storytelling and mobile art, as well as new hybrid fields like genetic art, bioart, spaceart and nanoart.

It is precisely this combination of technical know-how, interdisciplinary research and a creative artistic-scientific approach to a task that makes it possible to develop new, creative interfaces that engender progressive and innovative artistic-creative applications for media art, media design, media research and communication.

Nach dieser Entscheidung sendete ich dann noch die fehlenden Unterlagen zu und suchte nach einem Zimmer in Linz. Leider ist die Zimmersuche bei mir aufgrund des sehr geringen Angebotes an WG-Zimmern ein wenig stressig abgelaufen. Wer immer noch auf Wohnungssuche in Linz ist, dem kann ich folgende Portale empfehlen:


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