Assistant Professor of Video

Alfred University
United States, New York, Alfred
1 Saxon Drive (Show on map)
Nov 10, 2024
The School of Art & Design at Alfred University's New York State College of Ceramics invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Video Art to begin August 2025. Candidates should be motivated to join a collaborative faculty team focused on student success. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in the practice and instruction of Video Art focused on synchronized multi-screen projection and video installations. The candidate's work should demonstrate solid visual and performative abilities. The candidate will have a deep knowledge of the history and theories of Video Art with culturally diverse perspectives. The unique video art studios are purpose-built, allowing students to work experimentally across various time-based, performative, and intuitive art-making strategies. We seek a candidate dedicated to using the video art studio in their teaching and studio practice. The candidate will be willing to work collaboratively across the School of Art and Design disciplines and other disciplines within the Division of Expanded Media. Faculty will teach in Video Art and as part of faculty rotation in the first year of the Foundations Program. The School of Art & Design has a distinguished history as a premier institution for education in the arts and fosters a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary environment for research and practice. The Alfred Video Art program is focused on exploring and furthering the imaging and sound potentials of the new media art. That is making art with new media in the exciting context of transnational media, media convergence, and emerging technologies. The program's unique studios comprise many varied technologies that allow students to work experimentally across analog, digital, and hybrid systems. Our studios allow students to work within various durational, compositional, performative, and intuitive art-making strategies. Students engage with historical, contemporary, and emerging theories, including durational, poetic, philosophical, and critical ones. The Video Art program has been grounded in a Video Art making approach with solid ties to real-time image processing and digital compositing. The video image, exported in various formats, becomes as fluid as any other image, ready to become a fine art print, a frame in an animation, a button on a web page, or a structure for sound. The research and work produced in the video arts program crosses many forms of time-based electronic art, including real-time image processing, performative video systems, multi-screen installation, animation, motion graphics, and immersive video and Sonic Art. Salary:$58,000-$62,000 Annually Requirements: Minimum qualifications include an M.F.A. or its equivalent. Active professional creative practice Demonstrated commitment to excellence and impact in teaching Three years of college-level teaching experience is preferred Responsibilities: A teaching load of twelve credit hours per semester Research trajectory to support continued promotion Supports and assists in creating intersections for our students, faculty, staff, and visitors that will transform people's lives Supports and assists in creating an evolving mentoring culture and rich engagement opportunities for faculty, staff, and students Maintains a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and a high degree of cultural competence and respect for a wide range of identities and experiences, therefore welcoming and supporting all faculty, staff and students and expanding access to the Alfred experience Participates in all required assigned training, including safety training, and will com ply with safety rules, regulations, and protocols Effective written and oral communication skills Contributes to the University's overall success by performing other duties as assigned, including recruitment efforts Provided students with an inclusive and diverse approach to art making and research Instruct students in the development of content for multi-channel video works Instruct students in shooting, processing, editing, and synchronizing multiscreen video works Research emerging multi-channel video systems in the updating of the video studios Educate students in installing multi-channel video art pieces in diverse exhibition spaces Work closely with our video technician to resolve technical issues related to studios Work within the shared governance committees and other communities Provide art students with the opportunity to develop a rich set of video and new media skills Teaching across traditional, contemporary, and emerging electronic practices and within our First-Year Foundations program To Apply: Please submit the following materials: Submit a single PDF Document of the Following: Letter of Interest CV Teaching & learning impact statement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement illustrating how you engage with diversity, equity, and inclusion as a mentor/educator (not to exceed 600 words) Artist statement (300 words max) 20 images of creative research with image information 20 images of student work with image information Contact information for three references ( email and phone) Documents must be under 10MB Applications will be given full consideration if received by January 5, 2025. About Alfred University: Located in rural Western NY, Alfred University is the second oldest co-educational college in the United States and one of the earliest to have enrolled African American and Native American students. Ideal candidates will demonstrate an appreciation of issues that matter to our university community, such as diversity and social justice. The School of Art and Design at Alfred University is an accredited member of NASAD, with 33 full-time faculty serving more than 400 students. The school is unique among higher education institutions with an open curriculum, allowing a robust and diverse experience in studio art, design, and art history courses. Students and faculty alike thrive in an intensive and supportive learning environment. School of Art and Design students are fully integrated into Alfred University's community of 2,000 students. The New York State College of Ceramics (NYSCC) includes the School of Art and Design, the lnamori School of Engineering, and the Scholes Library. The NYSCC was established in 1900 to advance art, design, and engineering research. That intellectual and creative legacy exists in all of the areas of study in the School of Art and Design. The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University has been a unique public/private partnership in higher education for more than 100 years. Alfred University actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee, student or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Protected veterans, minorities and women are encouraged to apply.