Posting Hiring Range: Competitive
Work Schedule (Days & Hours): 9 months, hours vary
Contact Email: rafael.fajardo(at)du.edu
Department: School of Art & Art History
Job Summary: Assistant Professor in Electronic Media Arts & Design (eMAD), School of Art and Art History, University of Denver. Tenure-track. MFA or equivalent required.
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. 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. The candidate must show potential for a national and international scope of practice.
The eMAD program is located within the School of Art & Art History of 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. Some of the 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; mentoring and advising undergraduate and graduate students; and actively participating with three other tenured eMAD faculty, 11 Studio Art and Art History faculty, in ongoing curricular development of our BA, BFA, and MFA programs; and, actively contribute to the self-governance of the program, the school, and the university.
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.
Begin fall 2011.
For more information about the program, see
http://www.du.edu/emad,
http://dms.du.edu and
http://www.du.edu/art
Required Qualifications:
- MFA, PhD. or experience as an artist with international reputation required at time of appointment.
- A minimum of two years teaching experience beyond a Graduate Teaching Assistantship.
- A demonstrated potential for excellent teaching and for a national and international scope of practice.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A professional creative practice that complements existing program strengths in digital video art, expanded cinema, biomedia, socially conscious games, sound art, and physical computing.
- 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.
- Strong interest in collaborative and/or transdisciplinary teaching is desirable.
- The successful applicant will be required to teach at multiple levels of a curriculum that includes a BA, BFA, MA, and MFA.
Job Open Date: 11-15-2010
Job Close Date: Open Until Filled
Job Category: Faculty
Job Type: Full-Time
Appointment Status: Benefited
Special Instructions to Applicants:
All applicants must complete the on-line application (http://www.dujobs.org) where you must also upload your cover letter and CV (including software proficiencies). Please send teaching philosophy, artist's statement, documentation of own and students' work (URL, DVD, CD-ROM), SASE (if there are materials you want returned), and have 3 letters of recommendation sent directly to eMAD Search Committee, University of Denver, School of Art and Art History, 2121 East Asbury Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80208.
For best consideration, apply by January 31, 2011.
The University of Denver is committed to enhancing the diversity of its faculty and staff and encourages applications from women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans. DU is an EEO/AA employer.
The University of Denver is the oldest independent university in the Rocky Mountain region. We enroll approximately 11,600 students in our undergraduate and graduate programs. The Carnegie Foundation classifies DU as a Doctoral/Research University with high research activity. U.S. News & World Report's annual college rankings for undergraduate education, released in August 2010, placed the University of Denver among the nation's top 100 universities.