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Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 14:36:01 -0400
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From: Douglas Kahn <[log in to unmask]>:

FACULTY POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT
IN DIGITAL OR MEDIA ARTS

Program in Technocultural Studies
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

Position: Open-rank Professor of Digital or Media Arts in Technocultural
Studies. 

Responsibilities:  We are looking for an artist, media artist, or cultural
practitioner in 
any aspect of the digital or media arts to assume the position of core
faculty 
member in the newly established, transdisciplinary Program in Technocultural
Studies. This is a position in creative production for a person of
substantial merit, 
who is also capable of teaching courses in history, theory and/or
contemporary 
practice in her or his field, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The
applicant 
should be critically and creatively conversant with the practices and
discourses 
relating to media/digital arts, documentary, community media or the fine and
performing arts, and demonstrate an understanding of the social and
political 
dimensions of cultural practice as well as the aesthetic and poetic.
Familiarity with 
discourses of science and technology is preferred.

Qualifications: Applicants must be adept at directing sophisticated and
innovative 
projects from concept through realization, with a nuanced knowledge of the
technological craft involved, as well as demonstrate an ability to
communicate the 
conceptual and practical aspects in a provocative and compelling manner.
Applicants should have a history or demonstrated potential for a high level
of 
achievement.  An MA or MFA and teaching at the university or tertiary level
are 
required, while a PhD. and teaching both studies and production courses are
preferred. Applicants must demonstrate the ability and willingness to work
at the 
crossroads of the scientific and technological disciplines with the
humanities, arts 
and cultural studies, in a critical and creative manner. Involvement is
expected and 
experience is preferred in program development.

Starting Date:   Fall 2006

Applications:  
Please post (no emails please) a letter of application, curriculum vitae,
examples of 
work, and the names, street addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses,
of 
four people from whom letters of reference may be requested (please do not
request recommendations with initial application), and, if materials are to
be 
returned, a self-addressed stamped envelope to: Professor Douglas Kahn,
Search 
Committee, Chair Digital Arts Position, Program in Technocultural Studies,
One 
Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis CA 95616-8528. For
information 
about the position, phone 530/752-0573 or FAX 530/752-0795 or check website
at 
http://technoculture.ucdavis.edu

Deadline for applications:
November 23, 2005 for full consideration; however, the position will remain
open 
until filled.

Affirmative Action:  The University of California is an affirmative
action/equal 
opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the
achievement of 
diversity among its faculty and staff.
 

Douglas Kahn
Director of Technocultural Studies
University of California at Davis
http://technoculture.ucdavis.edu/


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