[NIME Community] accepting applications: Assistant/Associate Professor, RISD Digital + Media

Assistant/Associate Professor, Digital + MediaThe Graduate Department of Digital + Media, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) seeks a colleague of emerging or established international stature to join its faculty, at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, with appointment to begin fall 2016.

Now entering its second decade, Digital + Media (D+M) investigates the creative potentials and social implications of emerging technologies and cultural practices. Its research-oriented MFA program pushes the limits of art and design, mentoring students to become critical thinkers and artistic innovators.

Established in 2003, the Department of Digital + Media offers a selective MFA program for students with diverse research interests seeking an open environment for exploration in the realms of art, science, technology, and society. The program fosters exploratory work that generates innovative visual, sonic, and/or textual expression, marked by conceptual clarity and critical insights. The department has an interdisciplinary structure and reach, with strong connections to RISD’s other graduate departments and programs, as well as with neighboring Brown University.

The new hire will contribute to the direction and teaching of an evolving department and play an important collaborative role in supporting the diverse work of its graduate students while also facilitating partnerships within RISD and externally. S/he will enhance D+M’s capacity as a research incubator and creative forum, advancing the program’s profile for artistic and technological innovation grounded in critical thinking and social engagement. Through a questioning of technoculture, s/he will strengthen D+M’s ongoing efforts to contextualize contemporary experimental art and design in a historical frame and with respect to parallel scientific and technological developments.

For further information about the position, qualifications, and application process, please see: http://careers.risd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51268

Review of applications begins immediately, and all complete applications received by January 5, 2016 are assured full consideration.