Academic Position

Call for applications: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor – Eastern Michigan University – Simulation, Animation & Gaming

Zach Duer

Eastern Michigan University School of Visual and Built Environments Position: Assistant Professor – Simulation, Animation, and Gaming program The School of Visual and Built Environments (SVBE) in the College of Engineering & Technology (CET) at Eastern Michigan University invites applications for a tenure-track position in the Simulation, Animation, and Gaming Program (SAG) beginning fall 2020. SAG is the largest program in SVBE with more than 200 students. SAG is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Arts and Design (NASAD). EMU offers competitive salaries and a generous benefits package. This position carries an eight month appointment, usually September through…

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Residency

Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency

Zach Duer

The Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences (“HSS”) at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and The Huntington Library, Art Museum, 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 teach and work with Caltech students. It supports artists and other creative practitioners whose work involves research and experimentation and engages art, humanities, science, and technology in society. Caltech is a science and engineering…

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Artwork, Events and Exhibitions

Emotional Interfaces — The Wrong

Zach Duer

We are two young curators, Virginie Tan and Astrid Lours-Riou. We just launched an online exhibition part of the 4th edition of The Wrong Biennale (https://thewrong.org/) dedicated to digital art. The Wrong’s ambition is to promote contemporary digital art via numerous pavilions (aka online exhibitions) and embassies (aka offline exhibitions) to a wider audience. Our pavilion is called “Emotional Interfaces” and is accessible here: http://emotional-interfaces.com/ (We recommend to use a web browser to see the exhibition.) We hope you enjoy your visit and our international selection of artists. The 15 artists have been selected based on their work’s coherence with…

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Call for Entries

Open Call – bang. Prix 2020

Zach Duer

To date, bang. Prix has provided the support and mentorship to 57 participants in the development of their projects, showcasing them to thousands of audiences in 13 exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. In its fourth year, bang. Prix is expanding beyond support for project-based development and exhibitions as a platform that supports practitioners from different disciplines and countries to develop themselves at the nexus of art, technology, design and science. Under the scope of the bang. Prix 2020 program, we open our call for applications to those interested in participating. The program provides resources, mentorship and networking opportunities customized to…

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Academic Position

Department of Art Tenure-Track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor in Art: Digital Media Practice and Theory

Zach Duer

Cornell University’s Department of Art invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor or early associate professor in art beginning July 1, 2020. We are seeking a promising, research-based interdisciplinary artist who combines the areas of digital and media practice with theory, history, and criticism. This hire is supported by CIVIC (Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination, and Culture), the Cornell provost’s radical collaboration task force in the humanities and the arts, which targets faculty hires in the fields of media and public engagement. The successful candidate will be expected to forge strong links with the cross-college program in media studies, and…

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Academic Position

Cornell University’s Department of Art invites applications for two tenure-track assistant professors in art, beginning in fall 2020 or spring 2021

Zach Duer

We seek candidates with a strong and creative teaching experience, a significant record in exhibition or other modes of public artistic engagement, and a critical practice that has received wide recognition. The department currently organizes its courses into six areas of practice — painting, drawing, sculpture, print media, photography, and digital media. Of particular interest for this search are candidates whose practices include one or more of painting, print media, photography, or digital media. Nonetheless, because individual faculty and student practices regularly lie beyond or across these traditional categories, we encourage applications from the full range of media, practice, and…

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Academic Position

Assistant Professor (Tenure-System): Computational/Media Arts and User-Experience Design – Michigan State University

Zach Duer

The Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University invites applications for a tenure-system assistant professor with expertise at the intersection of the computational/media arts and user-experience design. Potential areas of research and creative practice include interface politics, ethics of computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, critical UI/UX, feminist data studies and feminist HCI, decoloniality in computing/tech, physical computing, computer vision and the politics of surveillance, net art, tactical media, and robotics. This position lies within the cross-disciplinary mission of the Experience Architecture (XA) degree program, which is a collaboration between the Department of Art, Art History,…

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Academic Position

Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) – Coding/Web-Based Media (Art) at the City College of New York

Zach Duer

The City College of New York Department of Art invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Coding/Web-based media. Candidates should be prepared to teach courses in web design, web development, interaction design and programming to BA and BFA students in the Electronic Design & Multimedia Program of the Art Department as well as teach one course in the Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice Program (DIAP) MFA. The candidate for this position will participate in multidisciplinary initiatives in the department, division and across the college and will be expected to address the needs of a diverse student population. This…

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Call for Entries, Events and Exhibitions

FILE 2020 – Open Call – Electronic Language International Festival

Zach Duer

FILE 2020 | Call for Entries Registrations are opened to the 21st edition of FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, from October 15, 2019 to January 14, 2020. Since year 2000, FILE is a non-profit cultural organization that has been promoting exhibitions, workshops and gatherings that seek to investigate the appropriations of the technologic media in artistic accomplishments. With annual exhibitions in Sao Paulo, in addition to participations in national and international events, FILE is the biggest electronic art event in Latin America. For 2020, artists and researchers can submit their works in the main categories: Interactive Art, Digital Language,…

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Academic Position

Two-Year Visiting Scholar in Immersive Media at CU Boulder’s Department of Critical Media Practices – University of Colorado Boulder

Zach Duer

Application here: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/Scholar-in-Residence/21777 The Department of Critical Media Practices (DCMP) welcomes applications for a two-year Scholar-in-Residence. We are seeking candidates who will enrich our program and its commitment to cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies and be able to demonstrate scholarly and artistic engagement in emerging media practices from a broad perspective. This position will contribute to our evolving undergraduate and graduate programs by providing vision and a creative approach to pedagogy. The ideal candidate will have expertise in one or more of the following: performance media, immersive media, virtual reality / augmented reality / XR, technocultural studies, computational art and/or digital…

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