Illinois
Posted: 11-Nov-23
Location: Brooklyn,
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 117330
The Integrated Design & Media Program in the Department of Technology, Culture, and Society at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering invites applications for a full-time, visiting faculty position in Integrated Design & Media, at the level of Visiting Assistant Professor, with a start date of September 1, 2023. The position will be for one academic year.
Practice
We seek candidates with an active, hands-on art or design practice whose work engages with extended reality (XR) and other emerging media technologies in relation to equity and community engagement, through activism, advocacy, design justice, or other strategies that broaden participation in emerging technology. This position will complement and strengthen our commitment to delivering a robust curriculum that is inclusive of diverse and critical perspectives, applications, and sites in digital art and design practice.
The program welcomes candidates with a diverse or hybrid background (e.g. degrees in engineering and arts, humanities, or design) and whose practice includes exploring themes of gender, race, labor, accessibility, and other crucial issues of societal context (bias, surveillance, authorship) within emerging technologies such as:
XR (VR, AR, mixed reality)
Motion capture / spatial computing
Themed entertainment and experiential storytelling
Synthetic media / creative uses of machine learning
New interfaces for human-computer interaction
Open source workflows and tools for the above
We strongly encourage candidates whose work engages with or has had a demonstrable impact on diverse communities to apply.
The successful candidate should be an excellent teacher with a strong commitment to student mentorship, prepared to teach undergraduates and Master's students. Teaching requirements include core courses for the program as well as special topics courses within the candidate's area of expertise. Candidates can expect to teach two courses per semester in addition to departmental service assignments and continued art/design/research practice. The Integrated Design & Media program offers BS and MS degrees in Integrated Design & Media.
Candidates must have a graduate degree in digital media, design, or related fields (art, design, engineering).
Please submit the following materials electronically:
- Cover letter
- Current CV
- Teaching Statement
- Research Statement
- A statement of your experience with or knowledge of inclusion, diversity, equity, and belonging efforts and your plans for incorporating them into your teaching, research, mentoring, and service.
- Recent teaching evaluations (if available)
- Names and contact information for three references.
Additional application materials will be requested of finalists for the position.
We will review applications beginning on April 1, 2023 and will continue until we fill the position. We encourage you to submit early.
About Us
New York University (NYU) is one of the top private universities in the United States, and NYU Tandon School of Engineering traces its roots back to 1854, building on an illustrious past as Brooklyn Poly and the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. Our mission is to excel in research, teaching, and entrepreneurship and inspire and educate engineers for the 21st century — backed by an historic commitment of $1 billion to recruit new faculty, fuel groundbreaking basic and applied research in key areas, and expand the Downtown Brooklyn campus. NYU Tandon faculty are world renowned leaders in science and technology, with a strong commitment to research, innovation, and entrepreneurship that make a difference in the world. We lead and have ties to multidisciplinary centers in wireless technology, cybersecurity, urban informatics, data sciences, artificial intelligence, renewable energy, and health, among others. Our faculty and students are part of the high-tech start-up culture in New York City and in downtown Brooklyn, and we support three