On 23/01/2020, 12:49, "Gary Hall" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Coventry University is seeking to appoint a Professor of Immersive Media
within its dynamic Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities. Appointment to this position offers an opportunity to lead
on the Centre’s research on digital media and humanities. It also allows
the successful candidate to provide academic leadership in an area of
critical importance to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and cement its
growing international reputation and ambitious research agenda.
The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), established in 2017, builds
on the strong and distinctive track-record of scholars at Coventry
University encompassing a range of disciplines in the arts and
humanities. Led by Professor Gary Hall, the CPC brings together media
theorists, practitioners, activists and artists to explore how
developments in postdigital cultures can enable 21st century society
respond to the challenges it faces in relation to the digital at a
global, national and local level.
The CPC is diverse, with its members hailing from more than 14 different
countries, and takes an innovative stance in exploring (post)digital
phenomena. It is our position that the “digital” can no longer be
understood as a separate domain of culture. If we actually examine the
digital - rather than taking it for granted we already know what it
means - we see that today digital information processing is present in
every aspect of our lives. This includes our global communication,
entertainment, education, energy, banking, health, transport,
manufacturing, food, and water-supply systems. Attention therefore needs
to turn from “the digital”, to the various overlapping processes and
infrastructures that shape and organise the digital, and that the
digital helps to shape and organise in turn. The CPC investigates such
enmeshed digital models of culture and society for the 21st century
“postdigital” world. Put another way, what we are interested in is how
we are born out of our relation to media, rather than seeing the media
simply as an external instrument or tool, the latter being the classical
Aristotelian view that has dominated our understanding of media
technologies to date.
The successful candidate is expected to have an international reputation
with a successful record of accomplishment of high-quality research
outputs, income generation and public engagement. Candidates with an
expertise in immersive media and a specialism in one or more of the
following areas are especially encouraged to apply: decentralised
networks; AI and data-driven humanities; experimental
humanities/post-humanities; emergent postcapitalist economies.
The closing date for applications: Sunday 16th February 2020
For more information on the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, see
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures/.
Informal enquiries about this post should be addressed to Professor Gary
Hall ([log in to unmask])
To apply please visit
https://staffrecruitment.coventry.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID%3d990020P1pY&WVID=1861420Izv&LANG=USA
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures
Director of Open Humanities Press: http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
Website http://www.garyhall.info
Latest:
‘Anti-Bourgeois Theory', Media Theory, Vol.3, No.2, December, 2019:http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/91
'Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs: An Open Insights Interview with Janneke Adema and Gary Hall', Open Insights: Open Library of Humanities (blog), January 13, 2020: https://www.openlibhums.org/news/356/
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