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JOB

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Full-time, Tenure-track


Deadline:
Fri Nov 21, 2008 01:00

Location:
United States of America

POSITION VACANCY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Full-time, Tenure-track
PHOTOGRAPHY/NEW MEDIA

The University of Delaware Department of Art (UD/ART) seeks an innovative artist and educator whose practice investigates the implications of lens-based culture in the twenty first century. This person will lead the discussion exploring the vast creative possibilities and the cultural concerns surrounding photographic media. We are interested in lens-based media’s relationship to representation, surveillance, mechanical reproduction, and the nature of the image or imaging in the “information age.”

The ideal candidate will technically and conceptually address the way that the image/information is captured (input), edited (processed), and presented (output), and should have specific expertise in one or more of the following areas:
•developing or exploiting mechanisms for capturing images
•manipulating visual information through digital software and programming, experimental analog processes, or a hybridization of digital and analog
•investigating modes of display and distribution from printing, projection, and the “screen,” to digital transmission or 3-D forms

Qualifications: The artist we seek will teach a full-time load of beginning to advanced undergraduate courses in our photography/new media area and be an active faculty member in an interdisciplinary MFA program. The ideal candidate should have an interest in addressing the aesthetic, historic, and ideological implications of lens-based image production while leading our photography/new media area. This person must be enthusiastic about and open to the broad range of work produced in an interdisciplinary department, which includes Fine Art and Visual Communication. S/he will also oversee, help maintain, and guide the discussion about the development of a comprehensive lens-based media facility.

We require an MFA or equivalent, college level teaching experience, and a serious commitment to personal creative practice. The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Starting Date: September 1, 2009

Application Deadline: January 25, 2009

Application Procedure: Our preferred method for application and portfolio submission is online via: http://udart.slideroom.com.
Include: letter of introduction, curriculum vitae, three references with contact information, artist statement, teaching philosophy, and up to twenty still images and/or up to 5 minutes of video: (.jpg), video (.mov, .wmv, .flv) or PDF documents. For good image quality and fast upload, images should be sized no larger than 1280 x 1280 pixels @ 72 dpi. Video files must be kept under 20MB.
Indicate availability for CAA Conference interview. Interviews at CAA by appointment only. The curriculum vitae and other application materials may be shared with departmental faculty.

To send your application by mail, or for further information contact: Professor Lance Winn, Photography/New Media Search Committee, Department of Art, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. Enclose a SASE if you send materials you wish to be returned.

General Information: The University of Delaware is a research land/sea grant institution with 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The main campus is located in the residential town of Newark, a suburban community of 60,000 about 15 miles from Wilmington, Delaware’s largest city. We are situated midway between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Newark is also about two hours by train or car north to New York City or south to Washington, D.C. Wilmington provides Amtrak service to all points along the eastern seaboard.

The Department of Art has 400 undergraduate majors pursuing either the BA or BFA degree. Our undergraduate Fine Arts core includes Ceramics, Photography, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture, with upper-level, self-directed study. We also offer an undergraduate program in Visual Communications, which includes courses in Graphic Design, Illustration, Advertising Design, Applied Photography, New Media, and interdisciplinary electives. We offer several study abroad opportunities, complementing department and interdisciplinary programs. The department’s two-year, discipline-integrated MFA program fosters a communal teaching model where students dialogue with faculty, professionals and other graduate students outside of their perceived “field.” The department’s facilities and resources can accommodate a maximum of 30 graduate students.

Currently the department has a lighting studio, 15-station color darkroom, 20-station black and white darkroom. and 6 private darkrooms. UD/ART maintains four studio buildings, including a new facility housing Ceramics, Printmaking, and Sculpture. The department also maintains a gallery in its main building. In addition, UD/ART has a state-of-the-art Macintosh-based computing facility with over 30 separate workstations, and a digital output center. The university library also houses a Student Multimedia Design Center which lends video and still cameras and provides studios and advanced workstations for digital editing.

The University has recently completed a new strategic plan, which focuses on innovation, among other goals. UD/ART is proactive about the university’s mission “to be recognized around the world as one of the great public institutions of higher education in America.”

Please visit our website at: http://www.udel.edu/art

The University of Delaware is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer who encourages applications from minority group members and women.


EVENT

cgaiter@udel.edu


Dates:
Tue Sep 25, 2007 00:00 - Mon Sep 24, 2007

Juried Exhibitions

The Commercial Woman

http://womanmade.org/groupshows.html#6

Call for artwork by women in all media including digital and video. Works submitted should draw inspiration from advertising and graphic design (formally or conceptually.) Please submit images of up to three artworks. For single image works, submit one image (plus one detail per piece if necessary. For video, web sites, or other motion media, submit two still images per piece. If the piece (or a representative segment) can be viewed or downloaded online (as a Quicktime movie or on a web site), please send the URL in addition to still images. A moving version online is the optimal presentation for motion media. Remember to clearly identify multiple images from one piece. For computer based works, artists will have to provide equipment. Some video equipment is available. Please indicate your technical needs and ability to provide equipment for the exhibition. Entry Fee: $24.

****For more clarification, the work in this exhibition can address the realm of commerce in ANY way. This is completely open to any creative interpretation. It can be graphic design or advertising made for clients, it can be fine art work (in any medium) that uses or appropriates imagery from advertising in a formal or conceptual way. It can be work that shows women working, etc.

Commerce influences every aspect of our daily lives. Artists are constantly inspired by/responding to it.

If you are a man, please forward this announcement to any women artists you know.

Please encourage students and young artists to enter. Many exhibitions are not open to students.

Award: One-year inclusion of up to 20 works in the WMG Online Registry: www.womanmade.net

ONLINE ENTRIES: Submit works on our website with your jpgs.

MAILED ENTRIES: Mail slides, cd or videos of your work to Woman Made Gallery, 685 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60622

Juror: Colette Gaiter
Colette Gaiter is an associate professor of Visual Communications in the Art Department at the University of Delaware and a new media artist and graphic designer. She has exhibited her work internationally at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), SIGGRAPH, and in numerous galleries, museums and public institutions in the United States. Her essay on the work of Emory Douglas, artist for the Black Panther Party, is published in a new monograph and she is working on an interactive DVD about his work.

Exhibition Dates: January 18 - February 21, 2008
Final Entry Deadline: October 3, 2007
Notifications: October 24, 2007