The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)’s Fusion Arts Exchange brings together cutting edge thinkers, designers, teachers, institutions and technology to provide a select group of international students an opportunity to explore how digital media operates within our global culture. Talented students from Argentina, Finland, Jordan, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, and the United States have been nominated to participate in the program. The Fusion Arts Exchange focuses on “dialogue” as a pedagogical, structural and curatorial theme. Course work will be organized into modules that examine how digital media facilitates, mediates, advances or changes our ongoing dialogues with history, place, people, and information. The theme of “dialogue” will provide a framework for navigating, critiquing and ultimately shaping a rapidly evolving industry. Participants will work in residence in Providence and visit Boston, New York City, Denver and Washington, DC, to become familiar with practice in the United States.

The Fusion Arts Exchange is a program of the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Parallel programs focused on sports management, music, and screenwriting are being hosted by Texas A&M University, Northeastern University and the University of Southern California respectively.

Participants in Study of the U.S. Institutes are among the approximately 30,000 individuals who participate in exchanges managed by the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) each year. Other ECA exchange programs include the Fulbright Program and the International Visitor Leadership Program. Through a range of academic and professional exchanges, the Bureau seeks to increase mutual understanding between the United States and other countries.

>> http://exchanges.state.gov/education/amstudy/