The Doctoral Department of the VDA (Vilnius Academy of Arts) invites you to a consultation-seminar for those interested in practice-based programmes. It will take place on Thursday February 27th at 16:00 Vilnius time (UTC+02). Google-Meet link.
IMPORTANT!
The application process for the PhD in Architecture, Fine Arts and Design will take place earlier this year, on 19-21 March 2025, and will consist of two phases to make it easier for you to prepare your application. The admissions to PhD programme in Art History and Theory will happen until September 4th. As always, the doctoral studies will start on 1 October. More at the vda.lt website.
The Doctorate in Art in Lithuania (and the VDA) is now 15 years old, and we are still wondering about it or asking undergraduate level questions. It's time to take a dose of vitamins again. This seminar will introduce you to the main issues of artistic research, dispel myths and help you decide whether you are on your way to a PhD in art or whether it is better to continue freely as an artist, designer or architect. We will discuss together what kind of knowledge are you creating and do you want to give away your episteme and methodologies? You will also find out what the requirements are for admission to a PhD in art. More about Doctorate in the Arts.
Before attending, we recommend reading at least a few of ours and colleagues publications to get a better understanding of our vocabulary and values:
- Elo, Mika. Ecologies of Artistic Research Practice, 2019
- Varto, Juha. Artistic Research. What is it? Who does it and why? Aalto university, 2018;
- Michelkevičius, Vytautas. Mapping Artistic Research. Towards Diagrammatic Knowing, VDA Press, 2018.
- Smith, Marquard, ed. Research: Practitioner | Curator | Educator, 2020
- Also browse through the archive of defended doctoral dissertations.
On 27th February at 16.00 the English consultation-seminar will be attended by the Head of the Programme Prof. Dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marquard Smith and the Coordinator of the Doctoral Department Alfreda Pilitauskaitė.
P.S. The name of the event was inspired by the EKA Tallinn seminar "Vitamin PhD" and the Boston University podcast "Vitamin PhD".
