Leonardo Scholarship

Fran Ilich Morales Munoz Awarded First International Master in MediaArtHistories

The Department for Image Science at Donau University, Krems and Leonardo/ISAST are pleased to announce their new cooperative effort, a half-tuition scholarship for the Master of Arts (MA) course, with a start in May 2010. The Leonardo Scholarship for media Art Histories, a Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF)/Leonardo initiative, is planned to answer the critical challenges of the 21st century, which require mobilization and cross-fertilization among the domains of art, science and technology by supporting the studies of a new researcher or artist.

From a field of applicants from twelve countries from four continents,Mexican media artist, author, and researcher Fran Ilich Morales Muñozhas been awarded the first Leonardo Scholarship in the Media Art Histories MA program at the Department of Image Science at Donau University. The jury, consisting of Edward Shanken, Jon Cates, and Oliver Grau selected Ilich from a highly competitive group of candidates based on his extraordinary accomplishments, intellectual sophistication, independent vision, and entrepreneurial spirit. Ilich is Director of the Literature Department at the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, Founding Director of Possibleworlds.org and Founding CEO of Spacebank. He was Co-founder and Moderator Nettime-Latino and has contributed essays to Wired News, Modem.txt, and Al Fin. His videogame artwork, "Banner" (with Blas Valdez) was exhibited at 01 San Jose (2009) and ARCO XX, Madrid (2001. His Internet soap opera, "Fea y Rebelde" was exhibited at Documenta 12, Kassel (2007). He was General Director and Curator of the Borderhack! festivals in 2001, 2002, and 2005.

Updated 7 April 2010