27 Nov 2013

Affect, combinatorial process, e-lit, digital poetics - Call for applications: PhD at CityU

The School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong is now accepting admissions for the Doctor of Philosophy in Creative Media. Deadline for all uploaded documents December 4th 2013. Applicants are strongly advised to submit draft applications as soon as possible so they can get feedback before final submission.

School of Creative Media (SCM), founded in 1998, is Hong Kong's first institution committed to research across art, computing, technology, animation, music, sociology, and engineering.

Candidates will have advanced knowledge of media art, art history, arts institutions, and curating, or relevant fields of inquiry. They are required to hold a minimum four-year Bachelor's degree with Honours, and a research Master's qualification in a relevant discipline. Candidates should apply with a research project relevant to SCM's research foci and PhD supervisory expertise. Given the very nature of creative media and media art, interdisciplinary projects as well as those with an element of practice-based research are encouraged. Numerous scholarships covering the cost of PhD studies are available at the governmental level as well as at the level of the City University of Hong Kong and are awarded after assessment of the academic merits and artistic potential of the candidates.

Please visit the link below to see more about the wide range of subjects covered by our full team of PhD supervisors. This announcement highlights the research expertise of one of SCM's PhD supervisors.

Dr. Jhave Johnston

Jhave Johnston is a digital-poet who focuses on combinatorial poetics, and multimedia poetry. He exhibits and performs kinetic multimedia spoken-screen lecture-poems. Since 1999, Johnston has published language-art online (not paper) at www.glia.ca.

Johnston's research investigates kinetic augmented reactive text by tracing spaces where computation and literature merge. It belongs to an inter-disciplinary and emergent species of speculative literary criticism concerned with the philosophical implications of digital media; it explores how independent elements of future languages will be perceived as organisms, and extrapolates toward a digital animist future by designing custom-programmed multimodal art-interfaces. Methodologically: He prefers an openness to intuition as a research method refined through iteration, and animism as a framework that informs digital practice built on coding and making.

Areas of supervision
Affect, combinatorial process, e-lit, digital poetics, generative systems, video installations, dimensional typography, agency, panpsychism.

For details on other research fields: www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/programmes/postgraduate/research-degrees/