Responsibilities:  Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of GT with emphasis in print/digital/web publishing, digital photography/imaging and/or estimating and project management. The position requires research and scholarly activities, undergraduate and graduate advising, curriculum development, service activities to the department, college and university, and other duties as assigned by the department head. The applicant must demonstrate commitment to excellence in teaching, research/scholarship and service.  Start date August 2014.

Applications received by March 14, 2014, will be given full consideration. See application information here.

Registration for Spring term begins today! Remember to check out the list of pre-approved NMCC courses on our website: http://newmediaculture.uoregon.edu/courses-overview/courses-offered-2013-14/

Oxford University will host “Academic Blogging: Political Analysis in the Digital Age” on February 25, 2014. The afternoon will combine analytical and practical reviews of current blogging practices and generate a better understanding of digital publishing of academic political analysis and commentary in the context of broader political debate, changes in publishing and in uses of internet technology. Full details for the event are available here.

To register for the event, go to http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/event-registration.html

The event will be recorded and the podcast published on the DPIR website, Politics in Spires and the University iTunes U website.

UC Berkeley presents “Superconcentrated: Image, Media, Software” with UCLA Professor and artist Casey Reas as part of their ongoing Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. The event will be held February 24, 2014 and full details are available here.

Abstract:

Within the visual arts, software is a misunderstood medium. It’s dismissed by some and championed by others, but it remains an enigma to most. Certainly, software is the dominant tool for design and production, but it can be more. Will software emerge as the next prominent art medium in the post-photographic world? What is a software studio? What is unique about working with software in the context of the visual arts? How does an artist learn to write software? Casey Reas has written custom software for over a decade to explore visual systems and emergent form. In this presentation, a hybrid of a screening and a presentation, he’ll share a selection from twelve years of work to address these questions.

See full details at http://www.critdhvcu.org/

A post on the reasons graduate students (and any scholars) should maintain an online presence, with an emphasis on using Twitter and blogging to develop intellectually and professionally. http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2014/02/editors-choice-digital-professionalism-for-graduate-students/

“The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was an international initiative to bring women’s voices to the online encyclopedia–as editors and as subjects.  Last Saturday, about 600 volunteers in 31 venues around the globe engaged in a collective effort to change the world, one Wikipedia entry at a time.”

Read the full article here.

In the new exhibition series “TIME OUT .01,” which opened in January 2014 in collaboration with the program “Time-based and Interactive Media” of Linz Art University, the Austrian artist Stefan Tiefengraber presents three of his works in the foyer of the Ars Electronica Center in Linz . In this interview, the 32-year-old talks about them in more detail.

“We’re clearly heading into an age of brilliant technology. Computers are already impressively good at guiding driverless cars and beating humans at chess and Jeopardy. As Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology point out in their book “The Second Machine Age,” computers are increasingly going to be able to perform important parts of even mostly cognitive jobs, like picking stocks, diagnosing diseases and granting parole.”

Read the full Op-Ed at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/opinion/brooks-what-machines-cant-do.html?_r=0