COMPUTER ARTIST
Assistant Professor, tenure-track to Associate Professor, tenured,
beginning July 1, 2008. Salary commensurate with qualifications and
experience and based upon UC pay scales. We seek an artist with a proven
exhibition record whose work exhibits an in-depth understanding of
computing and its relationship to contemporary art and its discourses.
UCSD is a research university that actively promotes and supports
creative work and advanced research in computing within a broadly
interdisciplinary arts department that includes studio, media, and art
history, theory and criticism. Opportunities for developing research
include grants, state-of-the-art facilities including CRCA (Center for
Research in Computing and the Arts), San Diego Supercomputer Center,
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
(www.calit2.net), and cross-campus collaborations. Teaching will include
both graduate seminars and undergraduate courses, including courses in
an Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major with the department of
Music.
Candidates must demonstrate in their work and teaching a substantial
engagement with the computing arts and their relationship to broader
discourses of contemporary art and culture. Candidate will actively
participate in the ongoing development of curriculum and facilities.
Teaching will draw upon knowledge of networked cross-platform (Linux,
Macintosh, NT/Windows PC) environments. Areas of expertise might include
any of the following: locative media, social media, network art, digital
imaging; graphics or sound programming; virtual environments; computer
based installation; electronics and robotics; history and theory of new
media. MFA or equivalency and teaching experience required.
Applicants are welcome to include in their cover letters a personal
statement summarizing teaching experience and leadership efforts and/or
contributions to diversity. Send letter of application, curriculum
vitae, names and addresses of three references (do not send letters of
recommendation and/or placement files) and evidence of work in the
field. This evidence may be in the form of websites, DVDs, tapes,
publications and/or public lectures and should be accompanied by return
mailer and postage.
Computing Search Committee (Position #C-08)
University of California, San Diego
Visual Arts Department
Mandeville Center (0327)
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0327
All applications received by January 25, 2008, or thereafter until
position is filled, will receive thorough consideration. Please
reference position #C-08 on all correspondence.
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Brett Stalbaum, Lecturer, LSOE
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts Major (ICAM)
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
Department of Visual Arts
9500 GILMAN DR. # 0084
La Jolla CA 92093-0084
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