FWD: Two Tenure-Track Faculty Positions in Digital Media (CUNY)

  • Deadline:
    Feb. 1, 2005, 1:44 p.m.

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THE GRADUATE CENTER THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.

Digital Media
Two Tenure-Track Faculty Positions
City University of New York Graduate Center

The City University of New York, the nation's largest public urban
university, is pleased to announce two tenure-track faculty positions
in digital media that will be filled as soon as September 2005. CUNY
has identified digital media as a Flagship Program within its
nineteen-campus system that it intends to enhance and expand over the
next two years.

Candidates for these positions must demonstrate broad experience in
using and creating digital media in artistic and/or academic settings,
a strong research agenda in various aspects of digital media
production and use, and a commitment to teaching and academic
achievement in digital media. A doctorate or a terminal degree in an
appropriate field is required. The positions are available at the
Assistant, Associate, and Professor levels, commensurate with the
experience and qualifications of the candidates.

Hunter College

Digital Media Maker with emphasis on using media to enhance public
awareness, in the M.F.A.

Program in Integrated Media Arts offering Advanced Studies in
Nonfiction Media Making Individual must have related teaching
experience and demonstrate competence in two or more areas of digital
and electronic forms of creative investigation and public expression,
including: experimental imaging/interaction systems, robotics, mobile
computing, networked spaces, web applications, animation, video,
interactive/machine interfaces, programming, performance, installation
and 3-D.

Applicant should be familiar with electronic media theory and
contemporary art practice. We seek an individual whose creative
research demonstrates a deep understanding of the relationship between
emerging technologies and contemporary media art, experimental and
hybrid media practices and models, and theoretical, socio-cultural,
and historical discourse.

NYC College of Technology

The Entertainment Technology Department of the School of Technology and Design

The successful candidate will be an innovative entertainment
technology practitioner and educator with practical and teaching
experience in one or more of the following areas: Scenic Automation,
Motion Control, and Mechanisms Design/Development; Physical computing
applied to real-time systems of distributed devices; Animatronics and
Robotics; Interactive Installation and Virtual Environment Technology;
or Video/Visual Media Presentation Systems.

Related experience in digital audio/video, software engineering,
computer-aided design, or electromechanical devices is an asset as is
experience in artistic and cultural presentation. Academic/teaching
experience is advantageous and will be a major part of this position.
A minimum of three years professional experience is expected. The
position offers an opportunity to play a key role in curriculum
development for multidisciplinary courses and program-level projects.
The position will be housed within the Entertainment Technology
Department, and be cross-disciplinary with the Computer Systems
Technology, Computer Engineering Technology and/or Mechanical
Engineering Technology departments, including possible teaching
assignments in these departments.

Applicants must state which position(s) they are applying for. Send a
letter describing qualifications, experience and research agenda with
vita and names of three references to:

Dr. Stephen Brier, Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and Chair

Digital Media Cluster Hiring Initiative * The Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Ave., Rm. 8111 * New York, NY 10016

Applicants for more than one position should include duplicate
materials. Applications will be forwarded to the search committee at
the appropriate college(s); review of applications will begin
immediately. The searches will continue until the positions are
filled.

GUNY is an AA/EO employer M/F/D/V