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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: DIGITAL ARTS AND NEW MEDIA MFA PROGRAM AT UC SANTA CRUZ: The Digital Arts and New Media MFA program at the University of California, Santa Cruz is accepting applications for Fall 2010 now through February 15, 2010. This interdisciplinary, two-year MFA program brings together faculty and students from across the academic spectrum to pursue artistic and scholarly research. The diverse curriculum includes collaborative research project groups, in which small clusters of students work with professors on artistic, technical and theoretical research in one of four focused areas: Mechatronics, Participatory Culture, Performative Technologies, and Playable Media. These collaborations result in publications and exhibitions. Faculty include Elliot Anderson, Sharon Daniel, Jennifer González, Michael Mateas, Jennifer Parker, Warren Sack, Ted Warburton, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, visiting artist Barney Haynes, and additional faculty from departments across campus, including Art, Computer Science, Film + Digital Media, History of Art + Visual Culture, Music, Social Documentation and Theater Arts. Students also take core and elective courses in the theory and practice of digital media arts that support the development of individual thesis projects, which premiere in the program's annual MFA Exhibition. The MFA is a terminal degree in the field of Digital Media Arts, qualifying graduates for a variety of career paths including university-level teaching and research. Information on the program and application process is available at our website: http://danm.ucsc.edu. For further inquiries, contact Felicia Rice, Program Manager, fsrice@ucsc.edu.

ANTICIPATED ASSISTANT/FULL PROFESSOR (AVATAR MHI/One or more Tenure-track positions) The Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University The Louisiana State University (LSU) Multidisciplinary Hiring Initiatives identify promising intersections of emerging research, bringing multiple departments and diverse faculty together to solve complex problems. The Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies, and Research (AVATAR) Initiative is a platform for intersections among the arts, technology, and computational sciences, uniting scholars across the University, including the Schools of Art, Music, Landscape Architecture, and Mass Communication, the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and English, as well as the Center for Computation & Technology. It builds upon a university-wide commitment to interdisciplinary research and teaching, progressive state tax credits for digital media and recent economic development in the region. AVATAR research and creative projects center on two primary topics: Intelligent and Responsive Systems (which include video games, training systems, simulations and visualization) and Collaborative Digital Media Arts in visual, musical and literary forms. LSU AVATAR invites dynamic, interdisciplinary scholars and artists dedicated to the advancement of digital media to apply to join our faculty. We are seeking world-class leaders, and emerging junior faculty, to help us build the critical mass of expertise necessary to create new technologies, advance understanding, and explore uncharted modes of expression in the realm of digital media. Departmental affiliations will be made as appropriate, and all positions are tenure-track. Required Qualifications: Terminal degrees within their disciplines (Ph.D., DMA or MFA); distinguished records of research accomplishments and publications; strong reputations in their disciplines, or the capacity to build the same in the case of emerging scholars. Additional Qualifications Desired: A history or potential to attract extramural funding and work with interdisciplinary teams that include doctoral students, post-docs, and research associates; all areas of digital media research and creativity will be considered; commitment to building interdisciplinary research teams that complement existing strengths among LSU faculty and community partners; candidates’ fields of interest should include one or more of the following: Computer Music: Electroacoustic composition, visual music, interactive music systems, information retrieval or auditory display; Digital Art & Design: Animation, shading, modeling, environmental design; computational and digital art/design, interactive installations, situated technologies; media art, narrative content creation, writing for film or games; Computer Graphics: Graphics processors and hardware, visualization, animation; digital signal processing for image, audio and video; Interactive Systems: Intelligent agents, machine learning, responsive systems; human computer interface; domain specific semantics. Special Requirements: Candidates who demonstrate an appreciation for the economic development potential of digital media are especially encouraged to apply. An offer of employment is contingent on a satisfactory pre-employment background check. Application deadline is January 5, 2010 or until a candidate is selected. Apply online at: www.lsusystemcareers.lsu.edu. Position’s #030028, 026986, and 034190. LSU system is an equal opportunity/equal access employer.

SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE MFA SOUND PROGRAM: The Master of Fine Arts in Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago is a unique program in the creative use of sound that goes well beyond the boundaries of a typical program in visual art, music, or multimedia. Students may pursue the creation and recording of audio work; the composition of music in numerous genres; live performance, improvisation, and audio installation; the integration of sound in other media, such as video, film, performance, and web-based art; designing and building software and hardware instruments; live and recorded electroacoustic music; and the use of distribution technologies such as radio, internet, and others. SAIC’s MFA in Sound is one of the only sound programs in the nation situated within the context of a fine arts school. This orientation allows students the freedom to explore hybrid practices, such as electronics and instrument building and conceptual projects that consider sound outside of a musical context. The program’s studio offerings are complemented by courses in the history and theory of sonic arts, physics, acoustics, electronics, and kinetics. SAIC’s diverse Sound department faculty are innovators in the field, with specialties including composition, improvisation, sound installations, computer music, digital and analog sound synthesis, acoustics and psychoacoustics, radio art, cognitive psychology, instrument design, critical theory, curatorial practice, performance, and software development. The Department of Sound fully shares SAIC’s multidisciplinary philosophy that promotes the intersection between all artistic disciplines, exploring their methods, materials, and critical thinking. Students are encouraged to take courses throughout SAIC, such as film, video, and new media; performance; art and technology; writing; and exhibition studies. Distinct from other institutions, advisors are NOT ASSIGNED, but chosen by individual graduate students. Students have the opportunity to choose faculty advisors from across all departments within one of the nation’s most influential art and design schools, ranked in the top three graduate fine arts programs by U.S. News and World Report. At the end of each semester, students participate in Waveforms, the presentation of work including performances and video. Recent work has included Chris Burke’s Interactopus, a hardware interface for real- time sound and video housed inside a warm, flexible fabric body, and Jenna Caravello’s presentation of her hybrid acoustic instrument, the Celloharp. Students also have access to SAIC’s vast array of resources including the wood and metal shop, performance and exhibition space, Video Data Bank, SAIC radio and television studios, and an extensive collection of rare historical recordings and artists’ books housed in the Artists’ Book Collection. Current faculty: Nicolas Collins, Mark Booth, Shawn Decker, Robb Drinkwater, Peter Gena, Eric Leonardson, Lou Mallozzi, Julia Miller, Robert Snyder, Lori Talley. Admissions deadline for the MFA Sound program is January 10, 2010. URL: www.saic.edu/gradapp. Phone: 800.232.7242.

TENURE-TRACK FACULTY POSITION, NEW MEDIA PROGRAM, RYERSON UNIVERSITY: Ryerson University, located in the heart of downtown Toronto, is known for innovative programs built on the integration of theoretical and practically oriented learning. More than 95 undergraduate and graduate programs are distinguished by a professionally focused curriculum and strong emphasis on excellence in teaching, research and creative activities. Ryerson is also a leader in adult learning, with the largest university-based continuing education school in Canada. Apply your MFA or equivalent and studio-based teaching experience in this probationary tenure-track position, at the Assistant Professor level, in Experience Design, commencing August 1, 2010, subject to final budgetary approval. Fluency in at least two current programming languages and an established art practice focused on the creative use of artificial intelligence, networked computational art and/or behavioural/social physical objects are required. Full position details, including how to apply by January 8, 2010, are available at www.ryerson.ca/jobs. This position falls under the Ryerson Faculty Association (www.ryerson.ca/~rfa) jurisdiction. For details on the Ryerson Faculty Association Collective Agreement and the University’s RFA Benefits Summary, please visit www.ryerson.ca/hr/working/docs/rfa_collective_agreement_09.pdf and www.ryerson.ca/hr/working/etoolkit/benefits/rfa/ respectively. Ryerson University has an employment equity program and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities and women. Members of designated groups are encouraged to self-identify. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.

IMAGINING MEDIA. PRODUCED@AT ZKM: An exhibition on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of ZKM at the ZKM | Media Museum. Opening Friday, October 9, 2009 at 7 p.m. in the ZKM_Foyer. Exhibition runs through December 31, 2010. The future is the declared objective of the work produced at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. On the occasion of its jubilee, now twenty years after its foundation in 1989 the institution casts back to its past with the opening of an exhibition, which brings the history of ZKM to life: in a large-scale overview presentation commencing on the October 10, 2009, the best of media art works produced by international artists at ZKM will be presented. In collaboration with over 500 guest artists from all over the world, the various institutes of the ZKM have generated a multiplicity of highly regarded works that have received worldwide recognition in biennales, festivals and exhibitions, which have thus decisively marked the face of media art. Through the ongoing adoption of these works at the beginning of the 1990s by the founding Director Heinrich Klotz, the ZKM_Collection in Karlsruhe is today one of the most important collections of international media art worldwide. Thus, the exhibition "IMAGINING MEDIA. produced@zkm" aims at no less than the reconstruction of the international development of media art by way of a presentation of the productions from ZKM. Curated by Peter Weibel and Bernhard Serexhe. http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/e/

Updated 19 November 2009