[Commlist] PhD in Media Arts + Practice at USC

PhD in Media Arts + Practice at USC

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 2022; the deadline is December 1, 2021.

iMAP is a practice-based doctoral program at the intersection of cinema, 
media, design and critical theory that invites students to 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:
• Mobile and Environmental Media Lab
• Creative Media & Behavioral Health Center
• World Building Media Lab
• Game Innovation Lab
• Affective Media Lab

The areas of research investigated by iMAP students are broad and 
include: intersectional AI; critical code studies; machine learning; 
media activism; Afrofuturism; virtuality; tangible interfaces; 
transmedia story design; remote sensing; sound studies; and neurocinematics.

Fellowship Opportunities
All PhD students accepted into the iMAP program are 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.

Deadline: December 1, 2021

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

Email Holly Willis, department co-chair, (hwillis /at/ cinema.usc.edu) 
<mailto:(hwillis /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.usc.edu <http://map.usc.edu>

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