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Member Spotlight: Allana Clarke

NMC Communications Committee

Allana Clarke’s work speaks to discomfort. “I, a first generation Trinidadian immigrant, perceived as African American, did not understand the nuances of racial politics in American culture. I wasn’t raised by the burdens or concept of blackness. But the burden was placed on my public self. This friction made me aware of the daily performances of our categorical existences, and the cultural signifiers we activate through our bodies and align ourselves with. It binds us. Is it possible to un-align signs from their signifiers? and embrace the disorientation caused by such an action? This ideological thread is the basis for my…

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Academic Position

Assistant Professor in Fine Arts & New Media, Indiana University Kokomo

Zach Duer

The Department of New Media, Art, & Technology (NMAT) invites applications for a full time, tenure-track, 10-month, Assistant Professor of Fine Art and New Media position beginning August 1, 2019. The NMAT program was built for those who choose not to work within the constraints of a silo but prefer to work and teach across multiple art forms, meshing different techniques and skillsets in their practice and in the classroom. From the unique NMAT core foundations modules through the senior thesis capstone experience, resident faculty work closely with every student, applying their unique creative approach and pedagogy. Information about the…

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Residency

Caltech Huntington Art + Research Residency

Zach Duer

(Featured image: Leslie Thornton (Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture 2019 Artist-in-Residence), still from “Cut from Liquid to Snake”, 2018.) The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (“HSS”) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (“The Huntington”) seek applications for an artist residency, which is part of the Caltech-Huntington Program in Visual Culture. The Art + Research Residency provides the opportunity to develop a project in conversation with the Caltech and Huntington research communities and to work with Caltech students. It supports artists and other creative practitioners whose work involves research and…

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Member Spotlight: Victor F M Torres

chanan delivuk

Victor F M Torres (b. 1987) is an interdisciplinary and intermedia artist born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Torres holds an M.F.A in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) as well as a B.A. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, from the same university. He is now Adjunct Faculty at Maryland Institute College of Art and teaches Newer Genres in the Interdisciplinary Sculpture Department. Torres has taught Design and New Media courses in multiple institutions such as Stevenson University, George Mason University, and UMBC. Torres is the founder of Vector Voltage…

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Academic Position

Lecturer Positions – Graphic Design & 3D Animation – UW Whitewater Media Arts and Game Development

Zach Duer

Lecturer, Digital Animation – College of Arts & Communication – 15309 http://www.uww.edu/employment/academic-staff-instructional/posting?listing=1819 The Department of Art and Design and the Media Arts and Game Development Program in the College of Arts and Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater seeks a Lecturer for the department in Digital Animation. The successful applicant will be expected to teach courses in digital animation, advanced 3-D modeling and concept art related to game development. The position starts August 2019 with an anticipated one year appointment – there is a possibility for an additional year depending on availability of funds. Salary is commensurate with experience. QUALIFICATIONS:…

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Academic Position

Two Visiting Professor Positions – Visual Studies at Grand Valley State University

Zach Duer

Two Visiting Professors in Studio Art teaching Visual Studies and Foundations Position 1. Interactive Studio, Time Studio, Foundations and Design Position 2. Image Studio, Site-based projects, Foundations and Design Visual Studies is part of the Department of Visual and Media Arts / College of Liberal Arts and Sciences / Grand Valley State University, a public liberal arts university in Allendale, Michigan. Beginning August 26, 2019 For complete announcement and application instructions visit our website: http://visualstudies.art.gvsu.edu/main/vs2019.html   About: Visual Studies at GVSU is a studio emphasis area in the Department of Visual and Media Arts that uses innovative pedagogies to address…

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Academic Position

Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor, Emergent Digital Practices – University of Denver

Zach Duer

The Emergent Digital Practices program brings together art, design, media, culture and technology studies in a hands-on, collaborative environment. Technology links academic disciplines with professional fields and joins shared communities with our personal lives in many new and exciting ways. To understand and explore this landscape, we infuse the digital practices of making and writing with contemporary critical approaches to cultural technologies, media philosophy, the critique and investigation of electronic and new media arts, and studies in science fiction, trans-global politics and science. Position Summary The Emergent Digital Practices program is accepting applications for two non-tenure track, one-year Visiting Teaching…

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Call for Entries, Call For Papers

CfP Deadline Extension 7th May | Radical Immersions Conference – The Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts

Zach Duer

Radical Immersions: Navigating between virtual/physical environments and information bubbles 8 – 10 September 2019, Watermans Arts Centre London, UK ~ CfP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 7TH MAY ~ Over the past years, immersive technologies have been hyped as consumer gadgets, entertainment media and the future of exhibition practices. The free distribution of VR headsets with smartphones and the increasing interest of museums, festivals and other cultural organisers towards ‘immersive digital content’ have quickly turned VR and AR devices and applications into widely recognized cultural artefacts. The promotion of ‘full immersion’ in the physical spaces of exhibitions and museums has led to…

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Visiting Faculty of Interactive Media, Practitioner-Scholar – NYU Abu Dhabi

Zach Duer

NYU Abu Dhabi is currently inviting applications for a full time, open rank, non-tenure track visiting faculty position in the Interactive Media program for the academic year 2019-2020, beginning classes in Fall 2019. The Interactive Media program is a newly established Bachelor of Arts major at NYUAD that combines art, interaction design, communications, computer science, and engineering. The program was established 6 years ago as a multidisciplinary minor, and is formally housed in the University’s Arts and Humanities Division but has broad reach across the University. The mission of the program is to foster the creative use of emerging technologies…

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