Art & Science is a four-semester, English-language master’s
program that takes an inter- and trans-disciplinary approach to fields of study drawn from the arts and sciences. As a result,
it is suitable for students who have completed artistic or non-artistic studies, who have an active curiosity and a willingness
to experiment, and seek to expand their skills through trans-disciplinarity.
Central to the program’s
approach is the appropriation of different academic discourses - aesthetic, scientific, economic or technological - that provide
a critical understanding of social developments and are useful for the students’ own projects. A central element of the Master's
program are the annual cooperations with partner institutions; past examples include CERN in Geneva or the Royal College of
Art in London. The students develop works in relation to the thematic concerns of the partner institutions, while being free
to choose the formats and artistic methods that best suit their project. A constant exchange between the participants and
the teaching team accompanies this process.
The Art & Science department is located in
Otto Wagner's Postsparkasse from 1906, one of the most important buildings in Vienna’s architectural history. The Art &
Science program involves the formation and elaboration of universal knowledge that is produced through a high degree of internationalism
and student diversity. This provides a context in which all our students are recognized as experts through the professional
experience they bring with them. The great openness of the program and the breadth of issues it addresses reflect a transforming
world whose social challenges clearly cannot be regulated and solved by specialists of a single field, but by people who think
and work in an interdisciplinary way.
Detailed information about the whole programme, open
guest lectures, entrance exam and info-meetings is found on our direct webpage:
http://artscience.uni-ak.ac.at
