GLOSSARY
GLOSSARY
Accreditation: DAI Art Praxis is a permaculture, a balanced, finely tuned blend of consistency and contingency that allows for a thoughtful integration of state-of-the-art research within the required competencies and learning objectives that come with our status as a fully accredited, so called Master of Arts in Fine Art and Design under Croho registration 49114. The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO) is a quality assurance agency that safeguards the quality of higher education in the Netherlands and Flanders, in an expert and independent manner, and that fosters the quality culture pursued within the higher education institutions in the Netherlands and Flanders. It accredits existing and new programmes, and assesses the quality assurance of higher education institutions. (Read more about DAI's accreditation history since its first official accredition in 2007 ).
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Attendance, Absense and IRL = In Real Life (as opposed to online). Study hours are divided in contact hours and self-study hours. Accredited contact hours at DAI are always IRL. If you cannot be present during contact hours it is nevertheless recommended to try and follow the seminars and gatherings online, so that you keep yourself informed and updated. But please note that online attendance can NOT replace IRL attendance, and will NOT be counted for your ECTS. For each curriculum component 100% attendance is strongly recommended and 80% attendance is conditional for obtaining the required number of ECTS. This will be detailed with each curriculum component described below. If you cannot attend a DAI Week or part of a DAI Week even if this falls within the allowed 20% of your contact hours, you must follow the contact protocol.
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Confluences:
DAI's academic year 2023-2024 will unravel during 7 extensive physical gatherings coined as DAI-Confluences 1-7 (see our Calendar) In addition there will be a distribution of tasks to be performed by students in between these gatherings. Second year students meet with their thesis coach during a limited number of individual, (mostly online) face to face meetings. Other individual meetings/coaching sessions are bound to take place IRL. In between these intensive get-togethers, DAI students are expected to further their (artistic)research, to reflect and report on the DAI Confluence past, prepare for the next DAI Confluence and to work on their written MA thesis. Students must spend a substantial number of hours on self-study ( both with and without tasks) as is made explicit in the Education and Examination Regulations.
Cum Laude Regulation:
DAI's Cum Laude regulation is elaborated as follows:
In case a student is concluding their two-year study trajectory with the final grade excellent for: 1) COOP study group (first year)
2) COOP study group (second year)
3) How To Do Things With Theory (two years)
4)The Kitchen & AEROPONIC ACTS (two years)
plus,
5)"Pass" for the WEAVER curriculum component
the tutors can nominate this student for a Cum Laude to the WEAVER team.
The WEAVER team consisting of the two Education Team Leaders, the Study Trajectory coordinator and the Head of Program will then discus the nominated student's general contribution to the program. To receive the Cum Laude distinction it is of crucial importance that, in addition to the excellent study results as described above, there is a consensus among the WEAVER team about the student's impact on the general wellbeing of the DAI community by means of their commitment to extracurricular activities.
The WEAVER team will then ask the Exam Committee to officially award the distinction to the graduating student.
Dutch Art Institute a.k.a. DAI Roaming Academy stands for the entirety of our program; including its public events, archives (see menu), alumni embassy, commisioned texts and so forth. The DAI fosters "study" and "research" by means of performance, reading, writing, voicing, making, listening, curating, commoning & conviviality. Study at DAI on a methodological level is conducted in entirely de-disciplined ways, but students and tutors, if compelled to, are welcome to join in and contribute with research evolving from their specific disciplinary backgrounds. With that in mind it is however relevant to appreciate that our program is critically positioned within the (versatile and porous) domain of 'contemporary art': its discourses and its discontents. Learn more about our Admission Requirements. DAI Art Praxis stands for our accredited MA curriculum in which we all study at the intersections between practice and theory; in the academic year 2022-2023 described in the syllabus here at hand.
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ECTS: European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System: a student's workload is measured in ECTS credits. ECTS are the standard across the European Union. One credit represents 28 hours of work and 60 credits represent one year of full-time study. DAI students must 'earn' 120 EC credits before obtaining their MA certificate. ECTS credits are not related to a content based quality assesment. The latter comes with a separate testing program, as registered in the EER and described in this syllabus. Outcomes will be distributed towards the end of the academic year.
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EER: the official Education & Examination Regulations in two parts; one deals with the institutional level and is written by the Central Exam Committee of the ArtEZ University of the Arts, while the other part is program led and written by DAI within a framework provided by the CEC. The detailed Education Exam Regulations 2023-2024(a schematic version of the Syllabus that you are currently reading) are available to students at the log-in section of the ArtEZ University of the Arts website. In case of a conflict the official version published by ArtEZ will be leading.
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Duration. DAI Art Praxis is a a two year long study trajectory. Upon succesful conclusion, a total of 120 ECTS will be awarded to you, of which 60 ECTS have to be obtained during the first year of study. If, after two years of study, a student has not managed to positively conclude one (or more) curriculum components, it is possible to allow for additional time (in most cases this concerns solely the finalisation of the written thesis). Re-enrolment for (part of) a third year does not pose a problem, but students should be aware that a (partial) third year also means that the (partial) payment of tuition fees comes along with that.
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Final Qualifications / Competencies: DAI as an accredited MA works within the guidelines of the Bologna Agreements and is therefore bound to make use of a competence-based testing program in line with the so-called Dublin descriptors (the reason for drawing up these descriptors was the pursuit of study programmes of an equivalent level in the different countries of Europe. The Dublin descriptors show the differences between the qualifications for Associate Degree programmes, Bachelor programmes and those for Master programmes).
Our List of Final Qualifications or Competencies is annually reviewed and (if necessary) updated by DAI's WEAVER team, two members of the student COUNCIL in close and ongoing conversation with tutors, and the student body. See the DAI-specific list of Final Qualifications / Competencies.
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Full-Time. Please be aware that DAI is accredited as a full-time course with a fixed number of ECTS to be accredited to you after succesful completion of all 3 curriculum components. Thus there is also a fixed number of contact hours during DAI Weeks which you have to attend. They are divided over the 3 curriculum components, while a fixed amount of hours is required to be dedicated on self-study (also divided over the 3 curriculum components) outside of the DAI Week gatherings at the various locations.
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Pedagogy: DAI explicitly asks its faculty to work with the students based on reciprocity. The tutors fuel and underpin a ‘curated class,’ initially departing from their own research and study interests, while the students are invited to contribute to the conversation with their own artistic and theoretical research. Both students and tutors are expected to be open to new questions and to new insights – tutors take on leading roles, but can occasionally delegate this duty to students. Both students and tutors are invited to make use of the DAI's specific learning environment to further their own research around topics and things that matter to them and to the world. DAI considers this to be a crucial aspect of its mission: no top down "know-all knowledge transmission", but thinking and studying together towards lively, open-ended, fluid (group or individual) works. There are no such thing as final "FINALS" at the DAI.
In addition to the collective work sessions and seminars, face to face advisory meetings geared towards tailor made support for individual students, will also be organized within the framework of the curriculum.
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Testing: We are bound to use the terms " formative" and "summative" around (and including) "Testing" as prescribed by the Education Quality Dept and the Exam Committee of the ArtEZ University of the Arts: