This could be a very exciting project...
>> DIRECTOR OF CULTURE LAB
>>
>> The University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK is seeking a Director
>> to develop and manage a unique research-performance-gallery-digital
>> media-telematic laboratory for the arts, humanities, engineering,
>> technology and sciences.
>>
>> With the working title 'Culture Lab', this innovative development
>> will be both an advanced research infrastructure and the dynamic hub
>> of new networks of creativity that engage artists, researchers and
>> scientists in a wide range of regional, national and international
>> contexts. Centred on a £4 million investment in a refurbished
>> building hosting a digital media facility alongside performance and
>> research spaces, 'Culture Lab' will encompass both new and
>> established forms of creative work along an analogue-digital
>> continuum. It embodies the University's desire to generate new fields
>> of practice and theory on the arts-science interface. We are looking
>> for a person of unusual talent who understands the ethos of creative,
>> transdisciplinary research in the arts, humanities and sciences.
>> Possessing both a track record of creative research, the Director
>> will be a person with the drive to enable and enthuse researchers and
>> creative practitioners across the University, especially visual
>> artists, musicians, writers, dramatists, composers, humanities
>> scholars and colleagues in engineering, medicine and the sciences.
>>
>> The successful candidate will be appointed to a post at or equivalent
>> to Professorial level in the Faculty of Humanities and Social
>> Sciences, commencing in September 2004.
>>
>> Prospective applicants are invited to discuss the post informally
>> with Professor David Campbell (Director of the Newcastle Institute of
>> the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) at [log in to unmask]
>> or via Miss Sarah Barber, NIASSH Administrator, ph. +44 (0)191 222
>> 5064.
>>
>> Applications close on 12 March 2004.
>>
>>
>> Further information is available at
>> http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/culturelab ,
>> http://www.ncl.ac.uk/beinspired/ (for details of all the current
>> posts) and
>> http://www.ncl.ac.uk/beinspired/html/humanities_details.html?ref=G4
>> (for details of the specific post)
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