Curious about the kinds of events NMCC sponsors? Mark your calendars, take a break from dead week, and check out this great event, created by our very own Women’s and Gender Studies Professor Edmond Chang – the first of three talks that will take place throughout the rest of this academic year.
visit Professor Chang’s website and previous talks for more information:
http://www.edmondchang.com/
“What’s New in Video Game Studies,” Think.Play, 10/5, 7 PM, Straub 251, UO
The Department of Design Media Arts (DMA) within the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the areas of 3D form, fabrication, and/or critical making. The Department of Design Media Arts is a multidisciplinary department dedicated to media design and media art. Led by an internationally renowned faculty, DMA fosters creative exploration and innovative research at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Embracing strategies ranging from media arts production to interactive motion graphics, print, video, game design, and generative software, public arts practices to media archeology and digital humanities, the curriculum is technologically innovative and intellectually rigorous.
Candidates should have:
Position includes:
Application: materials can be submitted to address below or online at: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF02612
Address letters of application to:
Professor Jennifer Steinkamp
Chair, DMA Search Committee
Department of Design Media Arts
Broad Art Center, Suite 2275 Box 951456
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1456
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age or protected veteran status.
J410/J510 Algorithms and AutomationWelcome to an era of algorithms. What we read and watch, our social connections and relationships, even decisions about jobs, bank loans, and insurance—these and other facets of our world are increasingly influenced by mathematical models and the big data and automated systems behind them. There is a long history to technology, automation, and computerization. But never before has the algorithm, as a sociotechnical system, been so front and-center in conversations ranging from media and politics to friendships and dating. This course helps students explore the social, cultural and ethical dimensions of algorithms, automation (bots), and emerging forms of artificial intelligence so as to scrutinize their uses (and abuses) in everyday life. While the math underlying algorithms is the purview of computer science, this course focuses especially on “public relevance algorithms” like those used in social media, with the goal of understanding how they are designed, deployed, and implicated in questions of media and society. Ultimately, this class seeks to equip students to think about and act toward algorithms in more critical and productive ways.
The Oregon Legislative Policy and Research Office (LPRO), a branch agency of the Oregon Legislature, seeks up to three qualified second-year graduate students to serve as interns during the 2017 legislative session. Intern positions are part of the non-partisan, professional staff of the Legislature, serving both chambers and all political parties. Internships offer a unique opportunity for students to learn about state government, current state policy issues and the legislative process.
Position Outline:
Interns with education and vocational interest in these areas are encouraged:
The UO Graduate School will provide a tuition remission for participation for each quarter of internship service and will offer monthly stipends through June 30, 2017 or upon the end of Session, whichever is earlier.
A four-week training session will begin January 3, 2017. Internships will require students to work at a four-week training session will begin January 3, 2017. Internships will require students to work at least 36 hours per week at the State Capitol in Salem.
Nomination Procedures: UO graduate programs may nominate in rank order up to three students for consideration by the Graduate School.
Nominations must be formatted as a single PDF attachment, sent electronically to Brandy Teel (bota@uoregon.edu) with the subject line “legislative intern nomination”
The UO Graduate School will pre-screen Intern applicants up to three applicants for each of the three internship positions. A LPRO review panel will make final selections. Selected nominees will be required to participate in an in-person interview in early December 2016.
Questions regarding the process or the positoons, please contact Brandy Teel, bota@uoregon.edu, 541-346-2489 in the Graduate School.
Working extensively with visual digital media for the past decade, Aaron completed a BFA in Graphic Design at the Art Center College of Design in California and is interested in theory of digital technology. In his work, he is primarily concerned with examining the individual psychic impact of the constant stream of digital stimuli that plays such a large part in modern culture.
Ellen’s research interests are focused on the intersection between analogue and digital practices in the theater. After receiving her MA in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Oregon, her practice has begun to explore the boundaries of film and interactive media when interacting with bodies in live performance, believing that the analogue and the digital do not have to be in opposition.
Theo completed his undergraduate and graduate work in Communication Studies at CSU Sacramento, where his participation in the McNair Scholars Program guided him towards the field of Media Studies. His research focuses on how minority media representations function in American society, specifically how they interact with and impact minority populations.
After studying law in both the United States and Japan, earning her LL.M Masters of Laws? from the University of Oregon, Makoto is back for more, focusing on intellectual property rights and the incompatibility between U.S. copyright laws and East Asian cultures. She believes the field of new media provides an opening to this issue of cultural differences – particularly in the world of movie production – which needs to be acknowledged.
Bonnie received her MA in Philosophy here at the University of Oregon and is interested in applying her chosen methodological approach in philosophy to the analysis of new media and digital culture. She hopes a deeper understanding of new media and technology practices will inform her teaching in the ethics of these realms, and would like to study the practices of media archaeologists and how changes in technology impact perceptual and ethical interactions.
Though Natalie does not directly engage with new media as a subject matter, technology as a physical medium is integral to her work. After graduating with a BFA in Studio Art from Brigham Young University, she began exploring the ways in which using technology as a material can enhance the meaning of finished product and is eager to participate in community discussions on the expanding role of new media and its influence.
Alex is an interdisciplinary artist interested in the ways new media influences artistic disciplines and the role it plays in our culture at large. He earned his BFA in Studio Art from Austin Peay State University, and in his own practice explores the aesthetic, political, and sociological impact of digital culture, hoping to create a dialogue that engages with the implications of the increasing presence – and increasing complexity – of technology in daily life.
Thursday, October 27 – 6pm Lawrence Hall, rm 177
John Divola is a contemporary visual artist who works in photography, describing himself as exploring the landscape by looking for the edge between the abstract and the specific. Although the physical subjects that Divola photographs range from buildings to landscapes to objects in the studio, his concerns are conceptual: they challenge the boundaries between fiction and reality, as well as the limitations of art to describe life. Divola is from Southern California, and his imagery often reflects that locale by including urban Los Angeles or the nearby ocean, mountains, and desert. He currently lives and works in Riverside, CA. Divola has taught photography and art at numerous institutions including California Institute of the Arts (1978-1988), and since 1988 he has been a Professor of Art at the University of California, Riverside.
