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Queen's University Belfast announces a PhD Scholarship in interactive documentary
The Department of Film Studies at the University of St Andrews offers up to three full studentships for PhD study, starting in September 2013. The department offers a wide range of opportunities for scholarly work, including studies in film festivals, Hollywood cinema, identity and representation, early film and transnational studies.
The School of Film & Photography at Montana State University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Film History and Critical Studies, starting August 16, 2013.
25 Positions as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in subject areas within the Faculties of Science, Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences.
Outstanding applicants are sought for this full-time, permanent position. In addition to providing academic leadership, the successful candidate will contribute to the ongoing development and delivery of undergraduate (BA Film & Screen Media) and postgraduate (MA Digital Humanities; MA in Film Studies) programmes, as well as to PhD supervision.
The University at Buffalo invites applications for an Assistant/Associate Professor position in the Department of Media Study.
The next deadline to apply for RAM funding is the 1 Oktober.
The Television, Film and New Media Program at San Diego State University is seeking a dynamic Assistant Professor to teach in the critical studies area, which includes TV, film and new media history, theory, and analysis.
The Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara is seeking to fill one faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to commence July 1, 2013.
Steffen Krüger and Tammo Rist will exhibit a part of their work Metabolism at Statens 125 Høstutstilling 2012 in Oslo.
IMK SPEAKERS SERIES IN MEDIA AESTHETICS
10 May, 31 May, 7 June, and 14 June 2012, 13.15 Arne Næss Auditorium, Georg Morgenstiernes hus, University of Oslo
The recent decade has seen a rapid evolution in the field of digital media. Handheld electronic devices and urban screens are now being integrated into every aspect of urban life. GPS and augmented reality (AR) technologies have transformed the new generation of mobile devices from a communication and information platform into a navigational tool, fostering a new alignment of reality and image perception.
As a result, the image has been radically dislocated. The theory of the image needs to take these dislocations into account and exert a paradigm shift from ontology to typology and topology. We should not only ask what the image is, but rather how and where the image is. The speakers series aims to discuss the new ubiquity, mobility, and operability of the digital image in terms of aesthetic transformation. That is, in terms of how we experience images and urban space through the new digital and screen based modes of aisthesis.
The University of St Andrews is seeking to appoint a lecturer in Film Studies. St Andrews is Scotland's first university and the third oldest in the English-speaking world, founded in 1413. Over six centuries it has established a reputation as one of Europe's leading and most distinctive centres for teaching and research.
Further information about the post can be found through the vacancies page
To make informal enquiries about the position, please contact Professor Robert Burgoyne (rjb21@st-andrews.ac.uk). Ref No: SB1086
Note: The closing date is 23 May 2012
Steffen Krüger and Tammo Rist are exhibiting their work Metabolism at the Barents Spektakel Festival 2012 in Kirkenes.
The work consists of 90 truck scans made in 2011 by the customs office at the Norwegian-Swedish border at Svinesund. The scanner is the first of its kind in Europe. According to the artists, Metabolism can be seen as a composite image of Norway’s metabolism – the organism’s intake, transportation, and transformation of matter destined to build up and maintain the country’s substance.
The new project ART! POWER! funded by The Research Council of Norway and directed by Professor Tore Slaatta at the Department of Media and Communication will cooperate with the media aesthetic group, particularly in its focus on the visual arts. Tore has been a member of the media aesthetics group since the start, and looks forward to develop more activity and research that will engage also the media aesthetic researchers. Susanne Østbye Sæther, Helge Rønning and Ove Solum, who also participate in the media aesthetic group, are already involved in the project.
ART! POWER! is an interdisciplinary research project that both have a cultural policy orientation and a more aesthetic orientation, trying to link research on art fields with more focused research on the production of singular artist and works of art. The project will formally begin in 2012.
We have also the pleasure of welcoming guest researcher Steffen Krüger to IMK. Steffen has previously done research on aesthetics and propaganda during World War 2 from a psychoanalytical perspective, and he is still interested in psychoanalytical approaches to media communication.
In his on-going research project, Steffen looks at the relation between comical and political communication in various countries.
For a more in-depth interview with Steffen Krüger in Norwegian, click here.
Welcome to our new Media Aesthetic colleague, post.doc. Ingrid Hoelzl. In her research project SCREENS - The Place of the Image in Digital Culture, she will use case studies of contemporary screen-based art to investigate how the new generic display mode - the screen - affects the conception and the production of images, and further how the myriad forms and uses of urban screens contribute to the constitution of the shared space through which images and citizens circulate and communicate.
For more about the background and work of Ingrid Hoelzl, click here.