New Media Artist/Designer: The Department of Visual Communication seeks a full-time faculty member working in web- or video-based communication design and/or interactive media, to play a lead role in the development and coordination of the new media track in Visual Communication, and to teach screen-based graphic design to graduate and undergraduate students within an interdisciplinary context. Candidates should have a strong conceptual, historical and methodological grasp of issues in the intersecting worlds of graphic design and new media, such as digital content configuration, navigation, interpretation and production.
Specific competencies might include typographic structure and expression; hybrid environments; planning and production of motion graphics for television and film; research and development of cultural and environmental issues; and/or contemporary visual cultural criticism. The successful candidate will interface with other media departments in the School to articulate and integrate visual communication objectives and potentialities in the School’s media initiatives. Teaching experience and a terminal degree in visual communication, design or other relevant area is essential. Applicants should have an active design and/or art practice.
The position is full-time, tenure-track, rank and salary commensurate with experience and begins the fall of 2006.
Application: curriculum vitae, artist statement and teaching philosophy, course syllabi, and portfolio samples which may include CD-ROM, DVD, VHS, mini-DV, slides and/or website URLs.
Deadline for priority consideration: January 1, 2006
Application materials will be accepted until the position is filled.
Send to:
Viscom New Media Search/RH
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Office of Deans and Division Chairs
37 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
For more informationon the School and its programs, available faculty positions, and application details, go to www.artic.edu/saic/public/jobs/faculty.html. Questions may be addressed to Shanna Linn at slinn@artic.edu, or 312.899.7472.
