Artist and Design Positions at LSU

Jobs Announcement in Digital Media

ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE/FULL PROFESSOR
(Digital Media/tenure-track/two positions)

Louisiana State University
School of Art and College of Art & Design
Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies
Center for Computation and Technology

The LSU School of Art and College of Art & Design, in collaboration with the Center for Computation and Technology's Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies, is seeking to fill two (2) tenure-track faculty positions with expertise in digital media. These positions are:

Convergent Media Artist (Ref: Log #0785)
Required Qualifications: terminal degree, professional graduate degree OR an exceptional combination of education and professional experience; fluent in a combination of the following areas: video art, sonic art, conceptual art, collaborative art, time- and web-based digital art, programming interactivity, artificial intelligence, installation, robotics, experimental imaging and interaction systems; ability to conduct creative research encompassing relationships between emerging technologies and contemporary art, experimental media practices, hybrid working models, theoretical and socio-cultural discursive contexts.

Design Futurist (Ref: Log #0786)
Required Qualifications: terminal degree, professional graduate degree OR an exceptional combination of education and professional experience; visionary three-dimensional designer, fluent in computer applications relevant to the broad base of design disciplines, including architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, urban design, and environmental studies; ability to conduct creative research in the development of new applications of information technology in the design disciplines, looking beyond computer-aided design and production toward virtual structures, social projects, design innovation and human-computer interface.

Additional Required Qualifications for Both Positions: ability to initiate interdisciplinary collaborative projects, involving art, music, architecture and design, and a broad base of academic humanities disciplines; visual and print communications; biological and physical sciences; and engineering, that explore technological applications for socially and aesthetically productive ends.

The Center for Computation and Technology (www.cct.lsu.edu) is a permanently funded research center to enhance information technology research and economic development at LSU. Much of this funding is being used to create several dozen new faculty positions across many disciplines within the realm of digital and computational technologies, including computational mathematics, computer science, nanotechnologies, astrophysics and relativity, fluid dynamics, bio-informatics, and others.

Faculty members holding joint appointments with CCT will be expected to develop their own high profile, interdisciplinary research programs that complement existing national and international projects. To enhance these activities, the Center has developed active visitor and fellowship programs. As part of the initiative, LSU already hosts one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, a 1024-node beowulf cluster.

The Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies is a CCT focus area, engaged in the application of advanced information technology on all forms of human expression, whether that expression is artistic, commercial, scientific, or informational. The Lab will focus its research efforts in three principle areas: Immersive Environments, Rendering Technologies and Intelligent Systems & Human-Computer Interface. LCAT fosters a vibrant interaction among all faculty engaged in information-technology research and teaching.

Responsibilities: The candidates are expected to pursue sponsored research that advances the interdisciplinary directions of the lab, while fulfilling appropriate teaching and service responsibilities in their home departments. This may include course development, graduate and undergraduate instruction, direct graduate students, and serve on departmental committees. The candidates will be expected to collaborate on research with other faculty in LCAT, CCT, and throughout the LSU community. Both candidates will be expected to develop and teach applicable courses within their discipline from a theoretically knowledgeable viewpoint.

Academic rank and salary are commensurate with experience.

Review of applicants will begin March 12, 2004, and will continue until candidates are selected. Applicants may send letter of application, curriculum vita/resume (including e-mail address), examples of published research, creative output or professional writings, names and contact information for at least three references to:

LCAT Digital Media Faculty Search Committee (Ref: DM)
College of Art & Design - School of Art
Louisiana State University
Ref: Log #0785 or #0786
Baton Rouge, LA 70803