2 Year Visiting Faculty Position – Electronic and Time Based Art
Beginning August 2015
Carnegie Mellon University School of Art
The School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University seeks to fill a two year full-time visiting position in the School of Art’s Electronic and Time Based (ETB) area, recently ranked #1 in multimedia by US News & World Report. We are seeking a dynamic individual working in a wide range of media from a critical perspective. Expertise and experience in other media is also desirable. Conceptual strengths, contextual sensibilities, critical inquiry and a multidisciplinary orientation are sought to teach courses, from freshman to graduate level, and to work with an enthusiastic faculty team in developing the ETB area.
The School of Art is one of five schools in the College of Fine Arts, which also includes the Schools of Architecture,
Design, Drama and Music. Its undergraduate and graduate curricula require media, concept, community affiliation, and visual culture exploration as well as university academic study. Areas of concentration include Electronic and Time-Based Work; Sculpture, Installation, and Site-Work; Drawing, Painting, Printmaking and Photography; and Contextual Practice. The School consists of 23 full-time faculty, 10 staff members, about 200 undergraduates and 18 graduate students. In addition to BFA and MFA degrees in Art, interdisciplinary degrees are offered in collaboration with other colleges in the university. The School is actively involved with a variety of unique centers for interdisciplinary arts research and education, including the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the Center for the Arts in Society, and the iDeATe (Integrative Design Arts and Technology) program at Carnegie Mellon University.
The university is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which has been cited as being the “Best Arts Destination” among mid-size cities and one of the USA’s most affordable and livable places. In addition to the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Andy Warhol Museum, the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust galleries, Pittsburgh Filmmakers and The Pittsburgh Glass Center, the city has a vibrant young art scene that includes many small galleries and alternative exhibition opportunities.
We seek educator-practitioners who work as critical makers in emerging media. We are especially looking for applicants with expertise in some of the following areas:
Storytelling
Critical game making
Physical computing
Digital fabrication
Performance
Animation
Video
The School invites applicants with the following qualifications:
An innovative and creative practice.
An advanced degree or equivalent experience.
University-level teaching experience, preferably beyond teaching assistantships.
Competency in one or more arts-engineering toolkits or technological media: for example, Processing, Arduino, Max/MSP, Unity, web development, multimedia production, cell-culture, etcetera.
An exhibition record of digital/electronic, time-based, and/or other new media work.
Carnegie Mellon is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunities employer committed to diversity.
Appointment Levels: Assistant Professor. Position begins mid-August 2015.
Salary and Benefits: Commensurate with experience
Additional Programmatic Information: http://www.cmu.edu/art/
Applications To Include:
– Letter of application with teaching philosophy and statement of creative practice
– Curriculum Vitae
– Names/addresses/telephone numbers of 3 references (no recommendation letters)
– Documentation of artwork. Up to 20 images and up to 10 minutes of video.
Application must be submitted via https://cmuartjobs.slideroom.com by January 31st.
Application review will begin mid-February 2015
http://www.cmu.edu/art/news/2014/hiring-faculty-position-2d-electronic-media.html
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PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania 15224
United States of America
