The Arts, Media and Engineering Program (AME) (http://ame.asu.edu) and the Dance Department (http://dance.asu.edu) at Arizona State University are announcing an opening for a tenure-track assistant professor in Movement, Computation and Digital Media.
AME is an internationally leading program for transdisciplinary graduate research and education in media arts and sciences. The program has established digital media concentrations in the PhD and Masters degrees of ten different disciplines: Dance, Visual Art, Music, Theater and Film, Design, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics, Bioengineering, Psychology, and Education. The program also offers a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences. Twelve AME faculty and thirty affiliated faculty from the participating departments work collaboratively with graduate students supported by research assistantships for the creation of innovative experiential media systems, models and applications. AME, a strategic initiative of ASU, has state of the art media facilities and diverse external support streams.
The ASU Dance Department is one of the top dance training schools in the U.S. running both undergraduate and graduate programs with special concentrations on choreography, performance and dance education. Media and technology have been key elements in the department’s approach for many years enabling students to explore diverse applications in relationship to research, production and performance.
The successful candidate will take a leadership role in the exploration of the movement aspects of adaptive and responsive multimodal systems at AME and the Dance Department and will also lead student training in this area. The individual hired will spearhead research in cutting-edge areas: interactive movement, codification of movement qualities and extraction of meaning, embodied learning and computer-assisted movement training. The appointee’s efforts will merge with efforts of other AME and Dance faculty for the achievement of significant advancements in interactive experiential media. Teaching assignments are reasonable and will relate to the appointee’s interests, research and creation.
The appointee will have their tenure home with AME. They will further have the opportunity to place 25% of their appointment with the Dance Department. This will allow for close collaboration with Dance faculty, supervision of Dance students and opportunities for special topics courses within Dance. The appointee will coordinate research and education activities across the two units on issues relating to movement, computation and digital media.
Required Qualifications: Terminal degree in Dance, Kinesiology, Digital Media or closely related field OR undergraduate degree (or equivalent) in Dance, Kinesiology, Digital Media or closely related field and international recognition as a leading movement practitioner AND a creative and/or scholarly record with emphasis on movement, computation and digital media appropriate to rank.
Desired Qualifications: Interdisciplinary experience in movement research and creation spanning Media, Arts and Engineering; experience in codification of movement qualities, and/or embodied learning and/or computer-assisted movement training; industry and/or practical experience; funded research in movement.
Application Deadline: November 25, 2007; if not filled, every FOUR weeks thereafter until search is closed. Anticipated start date is August 18, 2008.
Application Procedure: Send a letter of interest; CV; up to four representative samples of work: demos of research and/or creation products and/or publications; and, names, addresses and telephone numbers for three professional references to: Chair, Movement, Computation and Digital Media Search, AME, Box 878709, Tempe, Arizona 85287-8709. Background check required for employment. For more information write to: mcdm-search@asu.edu.
Arizona State University is an AA/EO employer
