Hello friends at Rhizome!
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is seeking a Design Researcher to develop and run its new Design Research Institute in Peck School of the Arts. It's an amazing opportunity at a great school, with wonderful colleagues, and in a city I've come to immensely appreciate.
Here's the official letter from the Chair of Visual Art:
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/sternn/public/UWM_DesignResearchPosition_Letter.pdf
And here's the official position description:
https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/sternn/public/UWM_DesignResearchPositionDescription.pdf
By all means, contact me or the Chair with any questions you might have. Warmly,
Nathaniel Stern
Assistant Professor + Area Head, Digital Studio Practice
Department of Visual Art, Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://nathanielstern.com
Link:
http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/sternn/public/UWM_DesignResearchPositionDescription.pdf
Nathaniel Stern is an artist and writer, Fulbright grantee and professor, interventionist and public citizen. He has produced and collaborated on projects ranging from ecological, participatory and online interventions, interactive, immersive and mixed reality environments, to prints, sculptures, videos, performances and hybrid forms. His book, Interactive Art and Embodiment: The Implicit Body as Performance, is due for release in mid-2013, and his ongoing work in industry has helped launch dozens of new businesses, products and ideas. Stern has been featured in the likes of the Wall Street Journal, Guardian UK, Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Washington Post, Daily News, BBC’s Today show, Wired, Time, Forbes, Fast Company, Scientific American, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Leonardo Journal of Art, Science and Technology, Rhizome, Furtherfield, Turbulence, and more. According to Chicago’s widely popular Bad at Sports art podcast, Stern has “the most varied and strange bio of maybe anyone ever on the show,” and South Africa’s Live Out Loud magazine calls him a “prolific scholar” as well as artist, whose work is “quite possibly some of the most relevant around.” Dubbed one of the Milwaukee’s “avant-garde” (Journal Sentinel), Stern has been called ”an interesting and prolific fixture” (Artthrob.co.za) behind many “multimedia experiments” (Time.com), “accessible and abstract simultaneously” (Art and Electronic Media web site), someone “with starry, starry eyes” (Wired.com) who “makes an obscene amount of work in an obscene amount of ways” (Bad at Sports). According to Caleb A. Scharf at Scientific American, Stern’s art is “tremendous fun” but also “fascinating” in how it is “investigating the possibilities of human interaction and art.”
Michael Connor