Faculty Position: CADRE Laboratory

ANNOUNCEMENT OF POSITION AVAILABILITY

Digital Media Art

School of Art and Design

Job Opening ID (JOID): 013092

Rank: Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)

Qualifications:

Graduate MFA degree emphasizing digital media practice or PH.D in Art
History or New Media research/practice is required. Demonstrated
record of professional activities including exhibitions and
publications is required. This position is directly affiliated with
the CADRE Laboratory for New Media, an interdisciplinary academic
program emphasizing experimental practice and research. Candidates
must demonstrate artistic achievement in an area of expertise
informing the intersection of information culture and contemporary
art. Candidates must demonstrate familiarity with emerging media and
technologies as well as theoretical sophistication in cultural
studies or social practices of digital media and technology.
Candidates with expertise in emerging areas of artistic practice,
history, and theory that involve mobile computing, gaming, mapping,
social networks, network art or information visualization are
preferred. Candidates with demonstrated theoretical or critical
authorship and/or curatorial practice, with community or public art
expertise desirable. Applicants should have awareness of and
sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population as
might have been gained in crosscultural study, training, teaching and
other comparable experience. Teaching experience at the university
level is preferred.



Responsibilities:

The CADRE Laboratory is a unique platform for trans-disciplinary
practice and research. This faculty position has direct
responsibilities associated with administration of CADRE special
programs included publishing, exhibiting, and symposia, as well as
supervising sponsored projects. The CADRE Laboratory is a unique
platform for trans-disciplinary practice and research. Faculty from
Fine Arts, Graphic and Industrial Design, Art Education, Museum
Studies and Art History are involved; the faculty member is therefore
expected to displa leadership skills and demonstrate a record of
fundraising or development skills including grant writing and/or
individual solicitation for sponsored research projects. Academic
responsibilities include teaching a range of undergraduate and
graduate courses in digital media and in the Art History program.
Artist will have the opportunity to teach in a variety of cross-
disciplinary practice areas, including graduate seminars in history
and theory of digital media, and a variety of experimental courses.
Artist will also share student advising, curriculum development,
student recruitment and student admissions responsibilities. Active
involvement on School and University governance and planning
committees is required. Candidate must have the ability to address
the needs of ethnically diverse students through course materials,
teaching strategies and advisement. Candidate must address the needs
of a student population of great diversity