Full Time Faculty positions

The School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is seeking to hire up to four artists-designers whose practice is located beyond traditional disciplinarity. Applicants should have a proven record appropriate to one or more of the areas listed below, as well as a strong understanding of the history, practice, theory, and criticism of contemporary art and design.

Art-Design Technologies: an innovative practitioner with the ability to create seamless interfaces between people, digital information, and physical environments. Applicants should be able to program and prototype advanced software and engineering tools to construct complex systems. A particular emphasis on understanding the social and human dimensions of these systems is desired.

Large-Scale Sculpture/Installation: an artist- designer engaged in creating installations or large- scale sculptures. Applicants should have expertise in one or more of the following practices: site-specific concerns, the natural and/or social environment, innovative use of materials (ceramics, metals, synthetics, natural), land art or environmental issues, and the interface between digital information and the physical environment.

Painting: a bold thinker with broad definitions of painting and its role in contemporary art-design practice. Applicants should have expertise in painting, drawing, and color processes, with an understanding of how these may be used to facilitate perception and invention, as well as cultural and social inquiry.

Eco-Design: an artist-designer whose creative practice addresses the ultimate challenge of our time: the impact of human activity on the environment. Applicants should have a demonstrated record balancing pragmatic and poetic investigations of topics such as: ecology, bio-diversity, cultural sustainability, energy, consumerism, natural resources, and resource management.

Graphic Design: an artist-designer with broad definitions of how visual communication operates in both established and emerging forms. Applicants should be solidly grounded in 2D design principles with expertise in digital interactive design, kinetic typography and data visualization.

Photography: an artist-designer whose work dynamically incorporates photographic media through innovative forms. Applicants should have expertise in digital photography, and should be responsive to the cultural meaning and significance of images used within mass media, for personal expression, and for cultural critique.

Special consideration will be given to applicants who are qualified to teach courses in the history and theory of art-design, to applicants whose qualifications and interests prepare them for active engagement with other academic units at the University, and to applicants who are open to collaborative/interdisciplinary teaching, research, and creative projects.

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