Assistant Professor in New Media

Tenure-track Assistant Professor - Electronic Media Arts & Design
University of Denver

Electronic Media Arts & Design (eMAD) Program is located within the School of Art & Art History at the University of Denver, which is a research intensive institution. The eMAD program is not a graphic design program, rather we adopt and employ designerly methods in the exploration of new and emerging experimental electronic media forms. We are a school of active, productive scholars in the Divisions of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Denver.

The School of Art and Art History at the University of Denver invites applications for a full time, tenure-track, faculty position beginning in September 2012. The Assistant Professor in Electronic Media Arts & Design (eMAD), at DU's School of Art and Art History is a Tenure-track position. We seek an artist/scholar who is critically, theoretically and creatively engaged in the practices and discourses of New Media.

We are especially interested in candidates whose work is related to network cultures and locative media; we seek an artist who can conceptualize, create and implement technical networks that map and link social and cultural communities. The candidate must show potential for national and international scope of practice.

Responsibilities of the position include teaching five 10-week courses per academic year in eMAD, a program that serves majors in eMAD, Art, Game Development, and the interdisciplinary Digital Media Studies (DMS) program, as well as MFA students in eMAD. Classes are taught in well-equipped Mac studios and several state of the art creative and performative spaces with up to fifteen students per class. Strong interest in collaborative and/or transdisciplinary teaching is desirable. The successful candidate will demonstrate the potential for excellent teaching and will have a creative practice that complements existing program strengths in digital video art, expanded cinema, biomedia, socially conscious games, sound art, and physical computing.

Service within the department includes student advising, and active participation within the needs of the eMad program, including but not limited to participating in ongoing curricular development of our programs, actively contributing to the self-governance of the program, the school, and the university.

MFA or equivalent at the time of appointment. A minimum of two years teaching experience beyond a Graduate Teaching Assistantship.

Applications will be received electronically through the University's Department of Human Resources (http://www.du.edu/hr/employment/jobs.html) by December 15, 2011. The position will remain open until filled. Please apply via this website to be considered for the position.

Please upload a cover letter describing teaching and creative/scholarly interests, Teaching philosophy, Artist's statement, Curriculum Vitae (including software proficiencies), 2-3 sample syllabi, and 3 letters of recommendation. Documentation of your work and the work of your students (URL, DVD, or CD-ROM) and a SASE (if there are materials you want returned) should be submitted.

Three confidential letters of recommendations should be sent directly to:
Jeanie Tischler
School of Art and Art History
University of Denver, AHSS
2121 E. Asbury Avenue
Denver, CO 80208

Please e-mail questions about the position to Laleh Mehran, Chair of the Search Committee, at [email protected]. Visit our website at http://www.du.edu/emad

The University of Denver is strongly dedicated to the pursuit of inclusive excellence and diversity. See our Diversity Statement at http://www.du.edu/chancellor/vision/diversitystatement.html. DU is an EEO/AA employer. We encourage applications from women, minorities, people with disabilities, veterans. Please see our extensive benefit package at www.du.edu/hr/benefits.