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BIO
He is an artist, curator, lecturer and designer. Studied engineering in Middle East Technical University. Being more interested in visual arts and design he had his Master's degree in design from the same school. In the meantime he contributed to online/offline many group shows. Recently he worked at Bilgi University and Kadir Has University in Istanbul. He taught various courses related to new media and interaction in the context of art and design. He coordinated the senior projects of Visual Communication Design Department of Istanbul Bilgi University and worked as the academic supervisor of the department and some international organizations. He is the founder and the organizer of PixelIST festival, dedicated to electronic arts and its subcultures, together with PixelACHE network. As an artist he produced videos, multimedia installations and photography projects along with publishing articles in various catalogs and periodicals. His work is listed in the ʻYounger Than Jesusʼ art directory project of New Museum, published by Phaidon. He curated Uncharted: User Frames in Media Arts exhibition and the edited the catalog. He worked as the manager of the Istanbul design office of frumatic and still consultant to the same new media agency. Currently he is teaching at Mason Gross School of the Arts Visual Arts Department of Rutgers University in New Jersey.
Adjunct Instructor in Design and Media at Rutgers U.
Deadline:
Tue Nov 04, 2014 23:59
Location:
New Brunswick,
New Jersey
United States of America
United States of America
The Department of Visual Arts at Rutgers / Mason Gross School of the Arts seeks an adjunct instructor to teach design and media, a sophomore level studio course introducing interaction design thinking and relevant technologies. There is an existing syllabus, and an opportunity to collaborate with experienced faculty in this area.
The ideal candidate would have extensive interest in electronic arts and its subcultures as well as knowledge in recent history of media arts, universal interaction design principles and experience in creative programming. S/he must have the ability to teach at the beginner level:
- procedural drawing, interaction design and data visualization through processing or other graphic coding frameworks
- basic principles of graphical and natural user interfaces
- physical interaction and electronic prototyping
- algorithmic motion
- projection mapping
- html/css
We are looking to fill two positions, one to teach two sections and the other to teach one.
The semester runs from January 20 to May 4, 2015.
Please apply by November 4, 2014.
The school is located in New Brunswick NJ, an hour from NYC by train (NJ Transit).
Send resumes to:
Atif Akin, Assistant Professor
atif.akin@rutgers.edu
The ideal candidate would have extensive interest in electronic arts and its subcultures as well as knowledge in recent history of media arts, universal interaction design principles and experience in creative programming. S/he must have the ability to teach at the beginner level:
- procedural drawing, interaction design and data visualization through processing or other graphic coding frameworks
- basic principles of graphical and natural user interfaces
- physical interaction and electronic prototyping
- algorithmic motion
- projection mapping
- html/css
We are looking to fill two positions, one to teach two sections and the other to teach one.
The semester runs from January 20 to May 4, 2015.
Please apply by November 4, 2014.
The school is located in New Brunswick NJ, an hour from NYC by train (NJ Transit).
Send resumes to:
Atif Akin, Assistant Professor
atif.akin@rutgers.edu