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Vacancy in Media Studies (Faculty of Humanities) Universiteit van Amsterdam:
Senior Lecturer (Associate professor) in Television and Popular Culture
Faculty of Humanities
The Faculty of Humanities undertakes teaching and research with a strong international orientation in a large number of disciplines within the field of language and culture. The faculty is based in the centre of Amsterdam and entertains close contacts with many cultural institutions in the city. It employs almost a thousand staff and its courses are attended by around 5,500 students.
Department of Media Studies
The Media Studies Department comprises two sections: Media and Culture (previously Film and Television Studies) and Archives and Information Science. Their staff are responsible for the following degree programmes:
A three-year Bachelor and one-year Master’s degree in Media and Culture, both offering majors in Film and Visual Culture, Television and Popular Culture and New Media and Digital Culture.
A three-year Bachelor and one-year Master’s degree in Archives and Information Science.
A professional Master’s degree in Journalism and the Media, preparing journalists for written and audio-visual media; a professional Master’s degree in the Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image, training professionals in preserving, providing access to, programming and presenting audio-visual media products; and a professional Master’s degree in Archival Science, providing training for archivists and archive assistants.
A two-year research-based Master’s degree in Media Studies (expected to start in September 2004).
Together, these courses serve around 1,100 students. For further (Dutch-language) information about the staff and teaching programmes, visit
Media and Culture Section
The Media and Culture section currently employs just over 20 permanent and approximately 30 temporary staff. All the academic staff of the Media and Culture section are members of one or more teaching teams, managed by coordinators and responsible for teaching degree courses and developing curricula for the various specialisms. The Media and Culture section has evolved out of the Film and Television section; the expertise of its staff lies in the fields of film and visual culture, television and popular culture, new media and digital culture, and journalism. Within the Media and Culture programme, film, television and new media are studied as representational technologies, cultural practices and cultural forms. A variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches (e.g. philosophical/aesthetic, historical and socio-cultural) are taught in conjunction: the interrelated study of the form, content and modality of media is an important principle. The professional Master’s degree courses are designed as dual programmes encompassing both theory and practice and preparing students from various academic backgrounds for jobs in the media, archives, museums, etc.
Research by departmental staff is conducted at the UvA’s Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and Institute of Culture and History (ICG). For further information, visit http://www.hum.uva.nl/asca/object.cfm (Dutch-language) and http://www.hum.uva.nl/ich/object.cfm (English-language). Academic staff of the Media and Culture section are involved in research on the themes of European Cinema, Digital Ontologies, Media and Multiculturalism and Media and Popular Culture.
Vacancy
To strengthen its senior staff, the Media Studies Department is now seeking a:
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Television and Popular Culture (1.0 fte)
The Television and Popular Culture teaching team includes staff specialising in television, culture and media history; their research is characterised by a combination of engagement with and criticism of the medium. Subjects of study include both traditional fiction and non-fiction genres and hybrid forms of information, entertainment and culture. The programme includes modules relating to the theory, history and technology of television, as well as analysis of content, context and audience. The team cooperates closely on teaching and research concerning theoretical approaches to television in the context of popular culture.
Candidates for this position will be expected to be familiar with a wide variety of theoretical approaches within the humanities, including cultural studies, visual analysis, television history, genre theory and qualitative audience research. In addition, they should preferably be interested in matters such as the politics and policies of broadcasting.
Since the Senior Lecturer in Television will coordinate the Television and Popular Culture teaching team, candidates need to have management qualities and leadership skills.
Profile:
- A doctorate, preferably in the field of television studies, visual culture or media theory.
- Teaching experience, preferably at various levels of university education; an interest in new methods of teaching (especially the use of audio-visual and digital technology within education).
- Outstanding research skills, demonstrated by publications in international academic journals and experience in the acquisition of research projects funded indirectly by government or directly by the private sector; preferably experience in supervising research at the PhD level.
- Proven leadership qualities; experience in administration, organisation and coordination of university education and research;
- Enthusiasm and an interdisciplinary attitude; a strong team spirit; flexibility in dealing with staff and the ability to motivate team members.
- Sound knowledge of ICT developments in the field.
- Flexibility, readiness to participate in interdisciplinary cooperation and multidisciplinary development.
- Excellent command of both Dutch and English; preferably teaching experience abroad and/or experience in teaching in English. If Dutch is not the native language, an active and passive command of it must be acquired within two years of appointment.
Information
For further information, please contact Professor José van Dijck, Chair of the Department of Media Studies, tel: 020-525 2980, e-mail: .
Appointment
The initial appointment will be made on a temporary basis for a period of two years. Subject to satisfactory performance, this will be followed by a permanent appointment. The gross monthly salary for a fulltime appointment (38 hours a week) will be between € 4034 (scale 13) and € 5400 (scale 14).
Applications procedure
Applications, accompanied by a CV, must be submitted by 10 October 2003 to the Director of the Faculty of Humanities, Personnel & Organisation Department, Spuistraat 210, 1012 VT Amsterdam. The top left-hand corner of the enveloppe should be marked with the vacancy number and the words “strictly confidential”. Alternatively, applications may be e-mailed to ‘solliciteren@hum.uva.nl’.
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Vacancy:
Van der Leeuw Chair (Full Professor) in Film Studies, Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam
Field of study and nature of the position
The duties associated with this chair comprise teaching and research in the field of film studies, in particular film theory, film analysis and film in relation to cultural identity. Film and Visual Culture is the most popular specialism within the Media and culture BA degree programme. The philosophy of this programme is to view contemporary culture through the prism of image and sound, and to examine audio-visual objects in the context of both established arts traditions and in the theoretical context of (audio-)visual analysis. Film theory and analysis is a key module in the first and second year of the BA degree programme Media and Culture, and is also an essential part of the one and two-year Master’s degree courses. Teaching in the other specialisms (Television and Popular Culture and New Media and Digital Culture) of the BA programme also relies heavily on the skills and insights gained from the study of film analysis.
The chair will hopefully boost research into the relationship between products of the media (in particular film) and cultural identity. Forms and contents of media are crucial elements in the development of cultural (e.g. national or ethnic) identity. Nationally and internationally, the relationship between media forms and identity is a topic of prime interest both to students and to society at large. Research in this area will provide a theoretical basis for analysing the relationship between film, media and culture; the new professor must show wide interdisciplinary interests and be capable of combining philosophical reflection, a sophisticated historical understanding and comparative insights drawn from a variety of cultural movements.
2. Place of the chair within the Faculty of Humanities
Since November 1997, all the UvA's teaching and research in the fields of literature, philosophy and theology have converged into a single Faculty of Humanities. At present, The Faculty comprises six departments: History, Archaeology and Regional Studies, Art, Religious and Cultural Studies, Dutch Studies, Language and Literature, Philosophy, and Media Studies. The Media Studies Department consists of two sections: Media and Culture and Archives and Information Sciences. The staff of the Media and Culture section is involved in the BA degree programme in Media and culture; the one-year MA degree course of the same name; the two-year MPhil course in Media Studies and the professional Master’s courses in Journalism and the media and Preservation and presentation of the moving image. The Van der Leeuw chair in Film Studies will be part of the Media and Culture section, which also comprises the chairs in Film and Television Studies (Professor T. Elsaesser), Journalism and Culture (Professor F. van Vree) and Television, Media and Culture (Professor J. van Dijck).
The new chair will complement the existing chair in Film and Television Studies, currently occupied by Professor Thomas Elsaesser. Because an additional chair in television studies was established in the section two years ago, the work of the new professor will primarily relate to film studies. In addition to having a thorough knowledge of film theory and cinema history, the successful candidate will be expected to focus on new areas of research, as identified above. Since other undergraduate and graduate programmes in the Faculty of Humanities have a keen interest in issues of identity and ethnicity, the chair may also be expected to have an impact on closely related disciplines in the fields of art, religion, culture and philosophy. There may be a connection to certain areas of teaching and research in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, particularly in the field of Communication Studies.
3. Position of the chair in the national and international perspective
In the Netherlands there are two related chairs in the Humanities: the chair in Media History at Utrecht University (Professor F. Kessler) and the recently established (personal) chair in Visual Culture at the University of Nijmegen (Professor A. Smelik). In addition, there is a vacant chair in Media Theory at Utrecht University, an appointment currently awaiting approval by the Executive Board. Positioned within Media Studies, the chairs in Utrecht are both indirectly related to the chair at the UvA. The chair in Nijmegen is located within the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies.
Internationally, both in Europe and in the United States, there are numerous professorial chairs in the field of media theory, several of which specialise in film theory and/or film culture. In the US in particular, film culture (theory, history and analysis) has been an integral part of the humanities curriculum for far longer than in the Netherlands, where the first chair specifically devoted to film studies was established at the UvA as recently as 1991. The establishment of relevant chairs in this field has failed to keep up with the extremely rapid growth in student numbers.
4. Teaching
The responsibilities of the new professor will particularly include the teaching of students in the Bachelor degree programme Media and culture (especially those specialising in Film); in addition, the appointee will share responsibility for the Master’s courses in Media and culture and the research-based Master’s course in Media Studies. Where possible, s/he will also contribute to the professional Master’s course in Preservation and Presentation of the moving image and the international MA programme in film studies.
The Bachelor and one-year Master’s course have evolved out of the earlier unitary Master’s-level (“doctoraal”) first-degree programme in Film and Television Studies. Due to a major overhaul last year, the curriculum now includes ample scope for subjects like film analysis, culture and theory. In addition, it places considerable emphasis on issues like representation and cultural identity, multiculturalism and ethnicity in relation to film. The coordination of teaching and the design of courses in this field is a major responsibility that can only be fulfilled at professorial level. In 2002-3 around 340 students enrolled for the first year in Media and Culture, and over one hundred students a year choose film and visual culture as their major..
The new professor will also be expected to develop theoretical views on film in relation both to other media, such as television and internet, and to new developments in technology and society. Given the closely integrated nature of the entire Media and culture curriculum, a broad perspective on media is a sine qua non.
5. Research
Research associated with the new chair will preferably interface with research currently being conducted at the UvA’s Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) or Institute of Culture and History (ICG). Three of the ASCA’s current research themes are relevant to Media Studies: European Cinema, Digital Ontologies and Multiculturalism and Media. Within Media Studies department, there are also specific projects in the field of media and multicultural identity. Most staff members of the Media Studies Department are involved in one of these research schools and with one or more projects.
The research associated with the new chair will primarily relate to two fields:
1) Theoretical aspects of film: philosophical, historical and/or analytical approaches to film or film content in relation to media cultures;
2) Cultural theory in the field of film in relation to issues such as multiculturalism, ethnicity or (e.g. social or religious) identity. Comparative analysis of film, in particular in relation to socio-cultural, ethnic or religious aspects of cultural expressions.
The new professor will preferably turn one or more of these themes into a main focus of the research programme. S/he will be expected not only to be capable of motivating (junior) staff and graduate students to engage in a new field of research, but also to make a substantial personal contribution to it.
6. Community Service
The teaching and research duties to be performed by the new professor will hopefully strengthen the ties between the academic world and society at large. The rapidly growing importance of the media (film, television and the new media) to society in general and communities in particular, as well as the growing urgency of social issues relating to cultural identity are bound to increase the need for theorising and analysing the relationship between media forms and culture. This chair will help to meet that need by providing a properly researched basis for cultural media expressions. While the interest in film, especially as a media expression, is demonstrated by the ever-increasing numbers of people attending cinemas, film festivals and events relating to visual culture, film culture is increasingly dominated by the issue of cultural identity.
The Netherlands (and especially Amsterdam) occupies a leading position in the European film world. Over the last ten years, the Netherlands’ international reputation as a leading media country has been established by major festivals like the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) and the Rotterdam International Film Festival, institutions like the Film Museum, and countless smaller film-related events and initiatives. Interaction between these institutions and academic staff at UvA is desirable not only for the university itself but because it will help to meet a demonstrable demand for such expertise on the part of the film world.
7. Profile
The role of the new Professor of Film Studies will relate first and foremost to the co-ordination and teaching of Media and Culture degree courses. For this reason, it is essential that s/he has both academic expertise and excellent teaching qualities. His/her primary duties will include curriculum development at both Bachelor and Master’s levels. Undergraduate and graduate programmes should cater to the academic interests of students in film and media, and prepare students for later employment by combining academic expertise with practical skills. The new professor will be expected to have teaching experience at all levels of university education and with international groups. S/he will be fluent in both Dutch and English; candidates without this level of linguistic competence will be expected to acquire it within two years. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in teaching large numbers of students. In view of the faculty’s policy that academic staff should be capable of flexible deployment, the new professor will also be expected to be able and willing to teach outside his/her immediate field of academic interest.
The successful candidate for this professorship will hold a doctorate in the area of Media Studies, preferably in film theory and/or analysis, or in a related discipline such as History, Philosophy or Communication. S/he should have sound knowledge of the field, evidenced by a substantial publication list including books and articles in academic and professional (international) journals and anthologies. In addition, the new professor will be expected to be interested in developing the aforementioned research in the field of film and cultural identity, both theoretical and comparative, and to seek to turn this interest into a key focus of research. Experience in developing new research programmes and fundraising is desirable. The appointee will be expected to initiate both individual projects and team-oriented projects. Supervision of PhD and MA students and postdocs is an important part of this job.
In addition, the successful candidate must demonstrate experience of and interest in management and administration. Inspiring and supportive leadership will be required to manage an enthusiastic team of staff members. By providing encouragement and constructive criticism, the new professor will help to improve the quality and effectiveness of the staff’s teaching and research. His/her management activities will include holding regular team meetings and conducting individual performance and job evaluation interviews. The appointee must be prepared to undertake general administrative and organisational duties both within and outside his/her own department and faculty.
Finally, the new professor will be expected to have the ambition and ability to entertain close contacts with external agencies and institutions, such as the Rotterdam Film Festival, IDFA, the Film Museum, other film festivals, De Balie (Center for public debate), municipal archives, and other relevant organisations in the Netherlands and abroad. This network will be essential to finding internships and eventual career opportunities for students. Good communicative and networking skills and an enterprising attitude are therefore desirable traits.
8. Specific rider concerning the Van der Leeuw subsidy:
The Van der Leeuw Scheme (officially the Regeling voor versnelde instroom van hoogleraren) is designed to counter the rising average age of professors in the Netherlands and at the same time to allow promising young academics to become full professors at an earlier age than would otherwise be possible. Under the current scheme, funding is available to temporarily double the chair, whose current occupant is due to retire within a limited time frame. The Van der Leeuw chair will only be available if NWO (Dutch Science Organisation) approves the nominated candidate and actually awards the subsidy. In addition to the usual criteria for a professorship (set by the university), NWO sets the following criteria for candidates under this scheme:
"the nominee must not be over 45 years of age (i.e. s/he must not have reached the age of 46 on 1 January of the year following the date of nomination)"; assuming that nomination takes place in 2003, this means that candidates must have been born on or after 1 January 1958;
"the nominee must have demonstrated an appropriate degree of mobility; the minimum criterion for this is that the person concerned must have gained at least one year's foreign research experience since obtaining his/her doctorate and must have worked for at least three years at an institution other than the university nominating him/her."
9. Further information
Further information can be obtained from the chair of the selection committee,
Professor José van Dijck, Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, tel. 020-525 2980, e-mail J.F.T.M.vanDijck@uva.nl.
10. Application procedure
Please submit your letter of application before October 10, 2003, accompanied by a curriculum vitae and list of publications. The application should be addressed to the secretary of the selection committee, Ms. J.H.J. Kuiper, administrative secretary of the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, The Netherlands and should be sent in an envelop marked "strictly confidential".
The selection will be in the hands of a selection committee headed by the Chair of the Media Studies Department, Professor José van Dijck. Following an assessment procedure involving testing by an independent assessment centre and a trial public lecture, the committee will make a recommendation to the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.
The initial appointment will be made on a temporary basis for a period of no more than two years. Subject to satisfactory performance, this will be followed by a permanent appointment. The gross salary will be in accordance with professorial scale A (between € 4468 and € 6520 per month on a fulltime basis).
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It's hard to explain the show in a blurb, so please see the site
http://www.diamondlifecafe.com for all the information.
In summary, it is a large group gallery show, featuring a wide range of mediums - installations, painting, typography, bookmaking, graphic design, glass sculpture, photography- all around the theme of 39 lines of text.
The artists can choose any line or a number of lines and either include the text in the actual work, use the "one-line poem" in the title, or use it as the inspiration for the work.
It will be a highly publicized show at a blue-chip gallery in Chicago. The show will take place in the spring of 2004. Even if you're not interested in submitting a piece, I'd be interested in getting feedback about the project. Submission cutoff date is Jan 04.
Thank you, take care,
Kathryn Born
Diamond Life Cafe
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Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are looking for a visiting artist to teach a course in the Spring,
2004 called Art 410: Conceptual Stategies I, one of two foundation
courses in our area Conceptual/Information Arts (C/IA). I'm enclosing a description of the course below.
Art 410 meets two days a week, T/Th, 9-12 and introduces students to
some basic applications, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, woven
within a larger thematic framework of art and culture. The visiting
artist could use their interests and research areas as thematic
threads for the course.
We are asking for a cv and brief description of ideas for teaching
the class by October 27, 2003. We are not looking for a detailed syllabus, but rather a general idea of how the visiting artist would approach the class.
By way of background, C/IA (http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts) is an
area of emphasis within the Art Department, with both undergraduate
and graduate MFA students. We encourage students to explore
crossovers among art, technology and culture and offer students
oppportunities to learn digital media and emergent technologies
within the context of larger questions about technology and change
within art and culture.
In the Spring, 2004, in addition to the two foundation courses, Art
410 and Art 412, we'll be offerring Art and Biology, taught by
Philip Ross and a course exploring interactive concepts and
strategies through Flash taught by Steve Hartzog.
Thanks for passing this along to those who may be interested. If you
need any more information, please contact me.
Many thanks and best regards,
Paula
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Paula Levine, Assistant Professor
Conceptual/ Information Arts (C/IA)
Art Department
San Francisco State University
Office: Fine Arts, Room 537
Telephone: 415-338-6457
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~infoarts
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Art 410: Conceptual Strategies 1
Course description
This course is a combination of studio, experimentation and study,
exploring ideas, strategies and structures by which art can be made,
through which meaning is conveyed. Through lectures, demonstrations,
assignments and projects, readings and discussions, we will use
materials and residue of everyday life as sources for art, explore
relationships between art and culture and apply a variety of
approaches to generate ideas and make work. This course is taken
concurrently with Art 412. Both classes are required for people
chosing to focus in the C/IA area.
Resources for the course come from a wide and rich field including
disciplines within art such as video and film, sculpture, print
making, photography, painting and digital media; work and ideas from
the art movements, including Surrealism, Futurism, Fluxus
Situationalists; and, in particular, work and ideas from Conceptual
Art, contemporary and popular culture. We will also be looking across
disciplines, taking ideas and approaches from fields outside of art,
including cultural theory and semiotics, literature, urban studies.
Students are encouraged to bring to assignments and discussions what
they know from their wide range of work/life/art experiences,
interests and fields of study.
Semester projects may include activities such as working with lists
and collections as sources for ideas and art, understanding
icons/logos as signs, mapping the unmappable, looking at ways to
represent information such as maps, exploring strategies and
structures of collections and archives. Final projects are proposals
for an Improbable Monument, using strategies and computer skills
gleaned from the semester to convey and present the project ideas to
the class.
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Public Art International Open Competition
“Onoden Municipal Elementary School in Musashino, TOKYO”
Deadline: December 1, 2003
The city of Musashino in Tokyo is requesting proposals from artists who are interested in creating art works with schoolchildren. This project is aimed to cultivate the children’s sensitivity, symbolize the school and be cherished by people in the community.
This open competition project is based on the community participation. It invites applications for the works from the public, holds an exhibition of the proposed ideas afterwards, and as for a certain work, provides an opportunity for the citizens --- including children, parents, teachers, and people in the community --- to vote and select. The project widely invites proposals for the works that will be created on the premise that the children at Onoden Elementary School will participate in the process of the creation in some way or another. The project aims to produce high quality public art works that take root in the community and are loved by people for a long time.
Timeline:
Dec. 1 Artist Proposals due
First Selection Early January, 2004
Final Selection Late January, 2004 (Location C: February, 2004)
Fabrication Beginning April, 2004
Project Completion February, 2005
Further information:
http://www.townart.co.jp/onoden/
Send all materials to:
Sumiko Amano
Town Art Co., Ltd.
Public Art Open Competition Project for Onoden Municipal Elementary School in Musashino
1-14-5 Hamamatsu-cho, Design Information Center 4F
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0013 JAPAN
Tel: 03-3434-3042 Fax: 03-3437-3049
E-mail: info@townart.co.jp