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Berkman Center for Internet & Society Call for Fellowship Applications

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University has opened its annual call for fellowship applications.

This opportunity is for those who wish to spend the 2015-2016 academic year in residence in Cambridge, MA as part of Berkman’s community of pioneers, and who seek to deeply engage in the collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and cross-sectoral exploration of some of the Internet’s most interesting, challenging, and compelling issues.

The Berkman Center welcomes applications from individuals from around the globe working on a broad range of opportunities and challenges related to Internet and society, which may overlap with ongoing work at Berkman or will expose us to new opportunities and approaches. We encourage applications from a diverse group of scholars, practitioners, innovators, engineers, artists, and others committed to understanding and advancing the public interest who come from — and have interest in — countries industrialized or developing, with ideas, projects, or activities in all phases on a spectrum from incubation to reflection.

Applications will be accepted through Friday December 12, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Required Application Materials:

1.) A current resume or C.V.

2.) A personal statement which should a) frame your motivation for applying for a Berkman Center fellowship and b) outline the work you propose to conduct during a fellowship. This statement should be roughly 1,000 – 1,500 words or should be a multi-media equivalent.

3.) A copy of a recent publication or an example of relevant work.  For a written document, for instance, it should be on the order of a paper or chapter – not an entire book or dissertation – and should be in English.

4.) Two letters of recommendation, sent directly from the reference.

In addition to the above materials, we will ask applicants to share some additional information in a form as part of the application.

1.) Disciplinary background: Up to three disciplines in which you have been trained and/or have worked.

2.) Tags: Five tags that describe or represent the themes, issues, or ideas you know about and on which you propose to conduct work during a fellowship at Berkman; and five tags that represent work, themes, issues, or ideas that you do not currently know much about, but would like to explore and learn more about during a fellowship year.  Each tag should be one- to three- words or terms.

3.) Berkman projects of interest.

To Apply for a 2015-2016 Academic Year Fellowship Through Our Open Call

Applications will be submitted online through our Application Tracker tool at: http://brk.mn/1516app
(Instructions for creating an account and submitting an application through the Application Tracker may be found here.)

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis through Friday December 12, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Instructions for creating an account and submitting an application through the Application Tracker may be found here.

For more information about the Berkman Center and for full details about the fellowship, visit their website.

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Robert Giard Fellowship

The deadline for submitting applications toward the Robert Giard Fellowship is one month away!

Are you an artist working in video or film whose work addresses issues of gender, sexuality, or LGBTQ experiences? If so, please check out details about CLAGS: Center for LGBTQ Studies’s Robert Giard Fellowship Award below.

This year’s award is presented to an emerging, early or mid-career artist from any country working in moving image (video or film). This award will support a directed project, one that is new or continuing, and that addresses issues of sexuality, gender, or LGBTQ identity.

An annual award named for Robert Giard, a portrait, landscape, and figure photographer whose work often focused on LGBTQ lives and issues, this award is presented to an emerging, early or mid-career artist, from any country, working in photography, photo-based media, video, or moving image, including short-form film or video.  The award now alternates annually between artists working exclusively with still images (photography) and those working with moving images (video or film). Please make sure to check which medium (still vs. moving image) is eligible for this year’s award cycle, described below*. In either case, this award will support a directed project, one that is new or continuing, that addresses issues of sexuality, gender, or LGBTQ identity.

Applicants should send:
1.    Artist’s C.V.
2.    A description of the proposed project (500 – 750 words in length)
3.    Representative examples of their work (work samples)
4.    Two letters of support
5.    General Questionnaire

All materials should be sent to clagsfellowships@gmail.com

DEADLINE: November 15, 2014

General Submission Guidelines:  Click here for Detailed Giard Submission Guidelines.
For more information, visit the CLAGS website.

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The Museum Interface (Art in America)

Article from Art in America, by Sarah Hromack and Rob Giampietro
ROB GIAMPIETRO is principal at Project Projects, a design studio in New York.
SARAH HROMACK is director of digital media at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art. 

Two experts assess the impact of digital media and new design on today’s cultural institutions:

“It’s no longer a question of whether art institutions should have a virtual presence. Rather, the onus is being placed on designers to facilitate meaningful interactions with art that might occur in the gallery, via Web-based applications or in new hybrid spaces that merge the real and the virtual. Any attempt to augment an encounter with artwork using technological means invariably raises questions about the values we assign to certain modes of viewing. After all, isn’t visiting a museum inherently tied to a very deep, very primary real-life experience? The promises and pitfalls of new technologies are forcing museums to rebalance their traditional mandates to care for a collection of physical objects while enabling scholarship and providing the wider public an opportunity to engage with works of art. “—R.G. and S.H.

In his 1955 book Designing for People, industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss was one of the first to write of designing a “man-machine interface”—in that case, a more accessible cockpit for pilots in WWII. By applying techniques from the emerging fields of ergonomics and information theory, Dreyfuss and his team aimed to integrate controls, seating and instrumentation in order to close the gap between a pilot and his aircraft. Like the full-room scale of the first mainframe computers, the cockpit subsumed its human operator—it was an interface that was also an environment, operating at the scale of architecture.

Henry Dreyfuss: “Basic Visual Data,” from the book The Measure of Man, Human Factors in Design, 1959

In the same book, Dreyfuss turns his attention from the hard lessons of war to the soft power of culture, evoking another bit of architecture that might be reshaped by the new logic of the interface: the museum.

“A half-hour’s tour through a museum with a TV camera,” he wrote, “can bring to life a wealth of art and knowledge that could otherwise not be seen in months.”1

Once again Dreyfuss was aiming to close a gap, to give people immediate access to all the world’s artwork. Paradoxically, his scheme for facilitating this immediacy required the mediating device of broadcast television.

To read the full conversation between Sarah Hromack and Rob Giampietro, click here to see the full article over at Art in America.

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Call for Submissions – CURRENTS 2015 (New Media Caucus)

Artists, performers, and developers are all now invited to submit their work for Santa Fe’s International New Media Festival. The topic for the 2015 festival is Currents.

Deadline: December 1, 2014

Possible topics may include:

  • New Media Installations
  • Outdoor Architectural Mapping
  • Outdoor New Media Installations
  • Single Channel Video and Animation
  • Multimedia Performance
  • Fulldome Projection
  • Experimental or Interactive Documentary
  • Web-Art/Art-Gaming/Mobile Device Art-Apps
  • Oculus Rift 
  • Robotics 
  • 3D Printing
Submission Guidelines:

http://currentsnewmedia.org/submission-guidelines/

Video documentation of CURRENTS 2014: 

http://currentsnewmedia.org/festivals/currents-2015/

For more information about the New Media Caucus, visit their website:
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/

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UC Davis-ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: DIGITAL MEDIA AND VISUAL CULTURE

The University of California, Davis invites applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in digital media and visual culture. The appointee will join a growing interdisciplinary team of researchers engaged in collaborative work on media ecologies and digital humanities.

Applicants should have expertise in digital media as well as film and other visual media. Specialization in documentary media and/or big data analysis is especially desired.

A Ph.D. in Media Studies, Film Studies, English, Science and Technology Studies, Cultural Studies, or a related field with a strong emphasis on media technologies, digital humanities, and visual culture should be completed by September 21, 2015.

Evidence of excellence in scholarship is required. Experience working in a collaborative environment is desired. Applicants should demonstrate clear commitment to undergraduate education and the promise of excellent teaching at the graduate level.

Applicants should be prepared to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in their own areas of specialization, as well as survey courses for the program in Cinema and Technocultural Studies. Appointment will be in Cinema and Technocultural Studies with possible cross-appointment in English, Computer Science, or Science and Technology Studies, depending on the background of the successful applicant.

Applicants should submit:

  • a cover letter
  • CV
  • contact information for four references
  • a writing sample

All application materials should be submitted through the online application form: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF00374.

For full consideration applications should be received by November 1, 2014.

 

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UC Davis: ­ASSISTANT PROFESSOR: GAME STUDIES AND CRITICAL GAME MAKING

The University of California, Davis invites applicants for a tenure-­track faculty position in game studies and critical game making. The appointee will join a growing interdisciplinary team of researchers engaged in collaborative work on media ecologies and digital humanities.

Expertise in game studies and/or game making, evidence of excellence in research, a clear commitment to undergraduate education, and the promise of outstanding teaching at the graduate level are required. Applicants should have theoretical and practical knowledge of game design tools and methods, as well as a strong scholarly profile in theories of gaming, game design, mobile technologies, media archeology, physical computing, or digital art.

Experience working in a collaborative environment and/or combining humanities research with critical making is strongly desired. Applicants should be fluent in the material platforms, software processes, and tools involved in producing digital games. Knowledge of media history and cultural theory would be an asset.

Appointment will be in one or more of the following departments depending on the candidate’s background:

  • Cinema and Technocultural Studies
  • Computer Science
  • Design
  • English
  • Science and Technology Studies

Applicants should be prepared to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in their own field, in addition to teaching survey courses in the department(s) of appointment. The ability to teach contemporary media theory, cultural theory, science studies, and/or philosophy through practice-­based studio classes is desired but not required.

A Ph.D. in either Media Studies, English, Computer Science, Design, Media Arts, Science and Technology Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, or a related field with a strong emphasis on digital humanities, digital cultures, or computer games should be completed by September 21, 2015.

Applicants should submit:

  • a cover letter
  • CV
  • links to online portfolio or examples of media work
  • contact information for four references
  •  a writing sample

All materials should be submitted through the online application form: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF00375.

For full consideration applications should be received by November 1, 2014.

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Faculty Position in Industrial/Product Design, Department of Design, UC Davis

The Department of Design at the University of California, Davis, invites applications for a new faculty position in industrial design with a focus on sustainable product design. The appointment will be made at the tenure-­‐track assistant professor level.

Successful candidates will demonstrate a capacity for conducting original creative work and research in industrial design and/or product design.

Creative activities and research will emphasize sustainable design, pursued through technological innovation, energy conservation, application of universal design principles, and/or the equitable distribution of resources (natural, man-­‐made, and cultural).

Additional desirable skills and experience include: (i) the ability to generate and develop extramural funding and relationships with industry and/or communities, and (ii) a history of entrepreneurship, especially in the advancement of innovative industrial/product design.

The appointee will be expected to assume a leadership role at U.C. Davis in mapping new directions in sustainable industrial/product design. In addition to the research/creative agenda described above, the appointee will teach in the undergraduate and graduate programs, and collaboratively participate in the activities, service, and life of the department as well as with other disciplines at the university level, and will establish meaningful connections to broader academic, professional, commercial and/or public communities.

A MDes, MID, MFA or equivalent terminal degree is required. Studio format teaching experience preferred; successful candidates will demonstrate an ability to teach a combination of practice-­‐based studio classes and large lecture courses.

An ability to advance the university’s and department’s commitment to diversity and inclusion through research, teaching, and outreach with relevant programs, goals, and activities is also desired.

This tenure-­‐track position expands the disciplinary range of the Department of Design; the appointee will have the opportunity to create and grow the new area of industrial design at U.C. Davis.
Appointment commences July 1, 2015. 

To Apply:
Candidates begin the application process by registering online at https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF00355.
Application must include:

  • letter of interest
  • CV
  • a brief statement of future research plans
  • descriptions of courses taught and/or proposed
  • twenty images of creative works
  • the names and contact details for four references.

Review of applications begins January 10, 2015 and continues until the position is filled.
Questions about the position may be addressed to Prof. Michael Siminovitch at mjsiminovitch@ucdavis.edu.

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Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Visual Communication, UC Davis

The Department of Design at the University of California, Davis, invites applications for a new faculty position in Visual Communication.The appointment will be made at the assistant professor, tenure-track level.

Successful candidates will demonstrate a capacity for conducting original creative design and research work in the visual communication field and possess background in creative practice or industry, ideally with emergent areas of visual communication. Ability to bridge other areas of design such as media, sustainable practice, product design, fashion, etc is desired.

The appointee is expected to teach in the undergraduate and graduate programs, conduct an active program of research and/or creative work, and collaboratively participate in the activities, service, and life of the department, other disciplines at the university level and establish meaningful connections to broader academic, professional, client and/or industrial communities.

An MFA or equivalent terminal degree is required, studio format teaching experience preferred, experience teaching typography desired.
Ability to advance the university’s and department’s commitment to diversity and inclusion through research, teaching and outreach with relevant programs, goals and activities is desired.

Appointment commences July 1, 2015.

To Apply:
Candidates begin the application process by registering online at https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF00353.

Application must include:

  • letter of interest
  • CV
  • a brief statement of future research plans
  • descriptions of courses taught and/or proposed
  • twenty images of creative works
  • the names and contact details for four references

Review of applications begins January 10, 2015 and continues until the position is filled.

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Full-Time Tenure Track Faculty Position, SIM Department, MassArt, Boston

The Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) Department at MassArt in Boston, MA, is seeking a highly motivated interdisciplinary artist, engaged in contemporary practice and techniques, for a full-time, Tenure Track Faculty position beginning Fall, 2015.

SIM is a multi-disciplinary program with a strong emphasis on critique, conceptual foundations, student volition, and individualized advising. Students work in all media, with a concentration on interdisciplinary practice and innovative technologies. Please visit http://sim.massart.edu for more information about the department.

This position is part of a highly collaborative, innovative and flexible team of faculty that shares departmental planning, student advising and curricular design. The position includes teaching responsibilities in a team-taught Major Studio class comprised of weekly student-run presentations and productions where students select, schedule and technically support their colleagues’ presentations in all media.

This position also includes teaching elective courses already in circulation as well as other courses to be proposed based on the candidate’s expertise.

Additional duties include individualized advising, review boards, mentoring, and committee work.
The position is based on a 3/3 course load.

Review of applications will begin on Friday, January 16, 2015 and will continue until the position is filled.

Link to posting: http://careers.massart.edu/postings/232
Deadline: Fri Jan 16th, 2015

Location:
Massachusetts College of Art and Design 621 Huntington Ave
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
USA 

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Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund

The TFI New Media Fund provides funding and support to non-fiction, social issue media projects which go beyond traditional screens – integrating film with content across media platforms, from video games and mobile apps to social networks and interactive websites. We’re looking for projects that activate audiences around issues of contemporary social justice and equality around the world and demonstrate the power of cross-platform storytelling and dynamic audience engagement.

FUNDING

Two to four non-fiction projects will be accepted, each receiving $50,000 to $100,000 in funding. The projects must present a non-fiction story focused on social issues and include an integrated cross-platform or new media component designed to engage and activate audiences in imaginative ways. The fund will include peer support and expert mentorship for producers. Producers from the U.S. and internationally are invited to apply.

ENTRY DEADLINES

Submissions open on September 5, 2014

Submissions close on November 5, 2014
*There will also be a second round of submissions opening March 5, 2015 and closing May 5, 2015.

To read about the 2014 winners of New Media grants, click here.

CONTACT

For more information about the TFI New Media Fund, please visit Rules and Regulations and FAQs, or contact them  at newmediafund@tribecafilminstitute.org or 212.274.8080 x43.