Opening, Digital Arts, Bowling Green University

Position Announcement

Position Title Instructor, Digital Arts.
Appointment: Full-time, two-year appointment.

Salary: Competitive. Benefits.

Qualifications:
MFA degree required. The applicant should have expertise in one or
more of the following areas: 3D computer animation and modeling,
digital interactive art, multimedia, or related field.

Responsibilities:
Teach studio courses in digital arts. Maintain personal creative
studio development and scholarly/professional activity. Participate
in educational and professional duties and activities within the
digital arts area and in the School of Art.


Starting Date: August 15, 2002.

Deadline for
Application: Postmarked by June 28, 2002.

Facilities: The computer art laboratories in the School of Art
include the following hardware and software: a 20-seat Apple G4 OSX
lab, a 20-seat SGI-Visual Workstation 320 Dual Pentium IH lab, 2 SGI
Visual Workstation 540 Quad Pentium III XEON systems, a 4 processor
Onyx with Reality Engine Graphics, and 7 Media 100 s non-linear
video editing workstation. All computers networked via 10/100
ethernet to the fiber backbone of the university and to an SGI
Origin 200 with 40gb DLT backup. BGSU is an Alias/Wavefront Campus
partner with licenses for Mac OSX and NT (Maya Unlimited, Composer,
StudioPaint 3D, and Maya Fusion). Other software includes:
Photoshop, Director, Painter, After Effects, Softimage, Worldup,
World Toolkit, and various other software packages.

The Digital Arts Program: The School of Art offers BFA and MFA
degrees in Digital Arts with three tracks:
1) Computer Animation – both 2D and 3D with a strong emphasis on 3D
animation, including non-linear digital video editing and
compositing;
2) Imaging – still images with both 2D digital imaging and 3D
modeled & rendered still images; 3) Interactive Multimedia – with
an emphasis on Internet and CD-ROM art, including Html, Javascript,
Macromedia Director and Lingo programming. The program currently
has approximately 280 undergraduate majors.

Application Procedure:
Send letter of application, resume, 3 current original letters of
recommendation, official terminal degree transcript, 20 slides, CD-
ROM, URLs, and/or video tape (VHS) of professional work, any other
applicable materials, and SASE to:

Dena Eber
Chair, Search Committee
School of Art
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403

BGSU is an AA/EEO employer/educator and welcomes applications from
women,
minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.