First year students begin the program with an intensive residency in Tuscany, Italy at Spannocchia, a feudal castle
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During the summer residency first year students do field work in Renaissance capital Florence, Italy, visiting the Uffizi and Accademia galleries.
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Visits to the Venice Biennale include guided discussions and visits with pavilion curators and scholars.
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Second-year students travel to Berlin where they encounter the contemporary art world and explore the city's underground art scene.
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First and second year students do fieldwork in Paris, France where they meet with world renowned scholars such as Sylvère Lotringer and Étienne Balibar.
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The intensive residency in New York City is filled with museum & gallery visits, panel discussions and outstanding lectures from visiting faculty. Bill Brown presents a talk at the 2012 IDSVA residency at the Morgan Library & Museum.
IDSVA offers a low-residency PhD program in philosophy and art theory to visual artists, architects, curators, and creative scholars. Instruction includes preeminent world-wide visiting faculty, residencies in Tuscany, the Venice Biennale, Paris, Berlin, and New York City, plus year-round distance-learning.
