[Air-l] Fwd: seeking a new media/artist/designer at SAIC

[Steve Jones]

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> New Media Artist/Designer
> School of the Art Institute of Chicago
> Visual Communication Department
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> Chicago, Illinois
> Full Time ­ Academic-Open
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> New Media Artist/Designer: The Department of Visual Communication seeks
> a full-time faculty member working in web- or video-based communication
> design and/or interactive media, to play a lead role in the development
> and coordination of the new media track in Visual Communication, and to
> teach screen-based graphic design to graduate and undergraduate
> students within an interdisciplinary context. Candidates should have a
> strong conceptual, historical and methodological grasp of issues in the
> intersecting worlds of graphic design and new media, such as digital
> content configuration, navigation, interpretation and production.
> Specific competencies might include typographic structure and
> expression; hybrid environments; planning and production of motion
> graphics for television and film; research and development of cultural
> and environmental issues; and/or contemporary visual cultural
> criticism. The successful candidate will interface with other media
> departments in the school to articulate and integrate visual
> communication objectives and potentialities in the school’s media
> initiatives. Teaching experience and a terminal degree in visual
> communication, design or other relevant area is essential. Applicants
> should have an active design and/or art practice. The position is
> full-time, tenure-track, rank and salary commensurate with experience
> and begins the fall of 2006.
>
> Application: curriculum vitae, artist statement and teaching
> philosophy, course syllabi, and portfolio samples which may include
> CD-ROM, DVD, VHS, mini-DV, slides and/or website URLs.
>
> Deadline for priority consideration: January 1, 2006
> Application materials will be accepted until the position is filled.
>
> Send to:
> Viscom New Media Search
> The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
> Office of Deans and Division Chairs
> 37 South Wabash Avenue
> Chicago, IL 60603
>
> For further information of the School and its programs, available
> faculty positions, or application details, go to
> www.artic.edu/saic/public/jobs/html. Questions may be addressed to
> Shanna Linn at slinn at artic.edu, or 312.899-7472.
>
> ________________________________________________________
> Tiffany Holmes, Assistant Professor
> Department of Art and Technology
> The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
> 112 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 60603
> Phone: 312-345-3760,  Fax: 312-345-3565
> Web: http://www.tiffanyholmes.com