[ecrea] PhD in Media Arts + Practice – University of Southern California

Applications Now Being Accepted for the PhD in Media Arts + Practice

The interdisciplinary Media Arts + Practice PhD program (iMAP) within 
the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California is 
now accepting applications for Fall 2017.

The deadline to apply is December 1, 2016.

iMAP is a practice-based program at the intersection of cinema, media, 
design and critical theory in which students explore the boundaries of 
cinema understood in its broadest sense while also creating new forms of 
scholarly expression.

What is the cinematic when it becomes immersive, mobile, environmental, 
playable, generative, virtual, ambient, live and spatialized? What role 
can hybrid scholar-practitioners play in the evolution of these forms 
within a critical, ethical and political framework? And how can we 
express our findings through new forms of scholarship?

Core to the iMAP program is its transdisciplinary ethos; after 
completing foundational coursework, students design their own curricula, 
drawing on expertise across all divisions with the School of Cinematic 
Arts. Students also have access to the School's state-of-the-art 
facilities and research labs, and they are encouraged to collaborate 
with students and faculty across the USC campus.

Research groups include:
• the Mobile and Environmental Media Lab led by Scott Fisher
• the Game Innovation Lab led by Tracy Fullerton
• the Mixed Reality Lab led by Todd Richmond
• the Jaunt Lab led by Candace Reckinger
• the Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center led by Marientina Gotsis
• the World Building Media Lab led by Alex McDowell.

The areas of research investigated by iMAP students are broad, and 
currently include: interactive architecture; wearable media; media 
activism; affect; embodiment and tangible interfaces; transmedia story 
design; remote sensing; sound studies; immersive journalism; and 
neurocinematics.

Fellowship Opportunities
All PhD students accepted into the iMAP program are fully funded through 
fellowships that offer tuition coverage, a stipend, as well as 
opportunities to serve as paid research and teaching assistants.

Apply
The iMAP program is practice-based, and as such, students are encouraged 
to be creative and reflective in designing, defining and articulating 
their research methods and scholarship. For this reason, the program 
seeks candidates who are interested in helping define new fields; those 
willing to combine theory and practice; and those ready to face the 
challenges of uncharted scholarly territory.

Further information and application materials are available at 
http://map.usc.edu/phd/

Email Elizabeth Ramsey, assistant chair, at (eramsey /at/ cinema.usc.edu) 
<mailto:(eramsey /at/ cinema.usc.edu)> with specific questions.

Division of Media Arts + Practice
School of Cinematic Arts
3470 McClintock Avenue, Suite 101
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, 90089-2211
213-821-5700
(map /at/ cinema.usc.edu) <mailto:(map /at/ cinema.usc.edu)>
http://map.usc.edu/phd/

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