Associate Professor in Digital Media Design

Associate Professor in Digital Media Design

Associate Professor in Digital Media Design

Job reference: A6499

Application closing date: 16/06/2019

Location: Plymouth.

Salary£50,132 – £58,089 per annum, Grade 9.

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time Job, Academic/Research

Digital Media Design (formerly Digital Art and Technology) is a vibrant programme of awards in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, situated within the Faculty of Art & Humanities. It is part of the school of Art, Design and Architecture, which includes connected programmes of study at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. From September 2019, this will include connected Awards including BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Media Design, BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Design Innovation, BA (Hons) Game Arts and Design, BA (Hons) Immersive Media, to name a few.

Digital Media Design and Game Arts Design are now well established, the former (running for nearly twenty-five years as Media Lab Arts and more recently Digital Art and Technology) embedding the production of digital media and design within a framework of creative and experimental artistic practice. As an award, BA/BSc (Hons) Digital Media Design includes connected pathways of study – Game design, Interaction design, Information design and Live Media design with exciting new developments in planning.

Importantly, these Awards have relationships with high profile research groups in the School, in particular i-DAT (the Institute of Digital Art and Technology), an open research lab for playful experimentation with creative technology. They also have strong international connections with the Game Arts Design programme being delivered as a 3+1 at Nanjing University of the Arts. You will be expected to contribute to this TNE activity.

The position is based on the main University campus at the heart of the city of Plymouth. Course facilities include a unique 40 seat, 9m Full Dome digital projection environment and newly built Digital Fabrication and Immersive Media Labs on the ground floor of the Roland Levinsky Building.

We are seeking an Associate Professor to lead the programme of undergraduate study and the ongoing development of the connected named Awards working with Award leaders. You will contribute to practical and theoretical teaching and research in immersive media technologies, in particular game technologies and ludic strategies, virtual/augmented reality, digital art and experimental perception.

The position requires someone with academic critical skills combined with practical digital art & technology software, hardware and design experience. You will have substantial HE teaching experience, and will have the necessary technical skills to teach and research in the field of immersive media technologies and their application to art and design practice.

The post will also involve input at postgraduate level and you will contribute to the development and exploitation of digital media resources for research (PhD’s and post-doctoral) and innovation (commercialisation and public engagement) within the i-DAT research group. Importantly, this exciting position requires strong leadership moving forward.

You will hold a PhD (or have equivalent professional experience) in a relevant discipline and be able to demonstrate an established research track record and evolving profile appropriate to the role. Experience in supervising masters/doctoral students is desirable. We will also consider applicants with extensive practical or industrial experience in relevant areas.

Accountable to the Associate Head of School (Design) and working closely with the Award leads, you will have strong communication and presentation skills and be expected to lead in curriculum development and course management as required. Key aspects of the role include delivery of teaching/lectures, module leadership, supervision of practical and theoretical study, personal tutoring, assessment and feedback, maintaining quality of delivery as well as organisation of educational field trips/visits, visiting lectures, career spines, student work placements, student competitions and end of year shows as required.

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining good working relationships with all stakeholders in the University as well as in industry, to ensure the overall aims of programmes are met. Being highly motivated and an excellent communicator, you will actively contribute to aspects of a university academic position as well as contributing to external profile and recruitment events for the Awards and the School.

Every member of staff at University of Plymouth contributes to delivering the University’s mission to advance knowledge and transform lives through education and research.

At Plymouth, being an outstanding teacher involves being an outstanding scholar, so that delivery enhances the learning environment and contributes to a high-quality student experience. In this role, you will also enhance professional practice in the subject area as appropriate. You will ensure that innovations in learning practice are adopted and that methods of learning and delivery continuously develop, so that the University is at the forefront of teaching practice and innovation.

Recruitment and selection will be based on individual merit; however, we should particularly like to encourage applications from women, black and minority ethnic people who are under-represented in this area within University of Plymouth. Please include a PDF portfolio of practice with your application or a link to your personal website.

More information on the Awards can be found at:

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-digital-media-design

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-game-arts-and-design

https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-immersive-media

Contact for informal discussion: Professor Chris Bennewith, Head of School – Art, Design and Architecture chris.bennewith@plymouth.ac.uk

This is a full-time position working 37 hours per week on a permanent basis.

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The University of Plymouth is committed to equality of opportunity, promoting a diverse and inclusive culture, demonstrated through our commitment to the gender equality Athena SWAN Charter and as a Stonewall diversity champion. All applications will be judged solely on merit, however, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently under-represented in the workforce, for example black and minority ethnic groups.

University of Plymouth holds a TEF (Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework) Silver by the Office for Students.

FullDome-New Creatives

FullDome-New Creatives

http://callingtheshots.co.uk/newcreatives/

New Creatives is an exciting talent development scheme that offers commissioning opportunities for emerging artists to create new work in film, audio or interactive media, designed for BBC platforms.

Calling the Shots is running the New Creatives project for the South West region, working with partner organisations Somerset Film (Bridgwater)Kaleider (Exeter)Create Studios (Swindon)Screen Cornwall (Redruth) and Watershed (Bristol).

Introduction to FullDome | Friday 10th May | 2 – 3pm

At Kaleider Studios

Join Mike Philips, Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts at Plymouth University and Director of Research at i-DAT.org who will lead us into his world of immersive, interactive and performative technologies.

The talk will cover:

What are FullDome immersive experiences?

How might we think about our ideas as FullDome experiences?

How do we make content for the FullDome?

Mike Philips: https://i-dat.org/mike-phillips/

ISEA2019

ISEA2019

ISEA2019 International Symposium on Electronic Art

22-28 June 2019

Asia Culture Centre

Gwangju, Republic of Korea.

Lux Aeterna (Eternal Light)

A topic inspired by the literal meaning of the host city Gwangju, “City of Light”, includes subcategories embracing complex themes that allow open interpretations in culture, science, and history. For example, religiously, light implies divinity and immortality. Scientifically, it is an energy collection of particles and wavelength signals. It symbolizes the enlightenment and rationale in humanities. Also, the presence of light creates Umbra and Penumbra. In light of the fact that light is the most specific example of versatility in which various interpretations can occur, it will provide us with the context where cohesion of procedural logic based on the human sensibilities and technology of artistic inspirations is freely presented, which is in line with what ISEA has been pursuing.

ISEA is one of the world’s most prominent international arts and technology events, bringing together scholarly, artistic, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in art, interactivity, and electronic and digital media.

The series of ISEA symposia is coordinated by ISEA International. Founded in the Netherlands in 1990, ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) is an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and technology. ISEA International Headquarters is supported by the University of Brighton (UK)

Sentient States: Bio-mind and Techno-nature.

Sentient States: Bio-mind and Techno-nature.

CITAR – Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts is pleased to announce the 21st International Consciousness Reframed Conference, to be held at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Porto, from June 6th-8th, 2019.

Titled “Sentient States: Bio-mind and Techno-nature”, Consciousness Reframed is a forum for trans-disciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology, and consciousness, drawing upon the expertise and insights of artists, designers, architects, performers, musicians, writers, scientists, and scholars, from many countries. Consciousness Reframed conferences have taken place in Australia, Austria, China, England, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Norway, Portugal, and Wales.

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21st International Conference
Consciousness Reframed 2019
“Sentient States: Bio-mind and Techno-nature”
6-8 June 2019 Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Porto, Portugal

Automation Fellows

Automation Fellows

AUTOMATION 2019-20

Automation is changing the way we live. It is increasingly important within the creative industries as well as manufacturing, retail, financial services, and healthcare, to name just a few sectors. Automation could be seen as the ‘quiet’ revolution – working in the background to assist in creative processes, gradually transforming agriculture through robotics, or re-imagining how we search the internet.

We are looking for people to explore the frontiers of automation technology and its applications, to ask: What already exists? What’s new and what’s good in automation? Where are the gaps in the market? What are the challenges? What opportunities are out there? What are the possibilities?

South West Creative Technology Network Automation Fellows.

 

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ix Symposium Delegation 2019.

ix SYMPOSIUM IMMERSION◯EXPERIENCE at SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES [SAT]

https://ix.sat.qc.ca/ at http://sat.qc.ca/

More and more collective and individual technologies are emerging and become new fields of exploration for artists. iX 2019 will give you the opportunity to experience the latest iterations of these immersive technologies whose thrust is further accelerated by advances in sensory enhancement, artificial intelligence, immersive computing and cloud computing that, together, radically transform the world that we know. The 2019 Symposium Formula will allow participants and stakeholders to reflect, experiment and play together these exciting new spaces of creation that immersive creation technologies offer.

 

The Delegation (in no particular order):

Misha Curson:

Arts Curator Eden Project. . -.. . -. / .–. .-. — .— . -.-. – .-.-.-

edenproject

Rowan Fae:

Aerial Dance choreographer and Digital Creative.

fulltiltaerial

Coral Manton:

South West Creative Technology Network Fellow.

coralmanton

Jane Grant:

South West Creative Technology Network Fellow.

janegrant

Charlie Tapp:

South West Creative Technology Network Producer.

kaleider

Mena Fombo:

Founder & Director, Black Girl Convention. -.-. — -. …- . -. – .. — -.

blackgirlconvention

Emmie Kell:

CEO of Cornwall Museum Partnership.

cornwallmuseumspartnership

B Aga:

Fulldome UK/ South West Creative Technology Network Fellow.

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Anne Carlisle:

Vice-Chancellor of Falmouth University.

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Lindsey Hall:

CEO RIO (Real Ideas Organisation).

realideas

Nema Hart:

Relationship Manager Creative Media

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Vincent Baidoo-Lowe:

South West Creative Technology Network Fellow.

crownrootpublications

Mike Phillips:

Director of Research at i-DAT.org, University of Plymouth.

i-DAT

Ben Stern:

Co-Founder of fulldome.org.uk and GaiaNova.co.uk

GaiaNova

Network:

South West Connections with SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES.

2007: SAT and Hexagram Host the Planetary Collegium Summit in Montreal. Pre-Satosphere but littered with small fulldome, immersive spaces and instruments, SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES partnered with Hexagram to host the Planetary Collegium Summit in Montreal. This brought together research nodes in Milan, Zurich and Plymouth for a conference and PhD Composite Session. Planetary_Collegium

2014: E / M / D / L formed a partnership of European and Canadian cultural organizations fostering an international community of artists/researchers dedicated to exploring the full-dome environment as a platform for creative innovation. The partnership consisted of University of Applied Arts Vienna, i-DAT (Institute of Digital Art and Technology), Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau, Laboratory of New Technologies in Communication, Education and the Mass Media (UoA NTLab) and Society for Arts and Technology [SAT], kondition pluriel and LANTISS. Funded by € 400k by the EU Culture Programme. Strand 1.3.5, Cultural Cooperation Projects with Third Countries. emdl.eu

2015: E/M/D/L presents: Liminal Spaces, Dream Collider, and Murmuration, the culmination of a EU funded collaboration between Canadian and European partners. This research project was carried out through eight international residencies and is presented in the Satosphere of Montreal’s Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Articulated through the fulldome environment as an instrument to explore transdisciplinary forms of artistic expression, these experiments oscillate between performance, interactive installation and immersive event. i-dat.org/murmuration/

2016: FULLDOME UK: SAT partner and perform at FULLDOME UK 2016 in the National Space Centre. I-DAT is a founding partner of FULLDOME UK with the first event taking place in Plymouth at the Immersive Vision Theatre. FULLDOME UK is a not-for-profit association supporting artists and researchers working within Fulldome immersive environments. It organises events with the goal to promote Fulldome as an artistic medium in its own right, and as a platform for research into data visualisation, group collaboration and the effects of immersive environments on our perceptual and cognitive processes. fulldome.org.uk

2017: Market Hall FullDome: The £7 million redevelopment of RIO ‘s Market Hall in Devonport, Plymouth will see the transformation of the derelict Grade II listed building into a cutting-edge space for digital skills, research, learning and entertainment. The former Market Hall will accommodate flexible work space, events and exhibition space, a café, bar and restaurant. Housed in the new extension will be an impressive 15m immersive dome theatre which will offer a large scale shared virtual reality environment – the first of its kind in Europe and inspired by the Satopshere. themarkethall.co.uk

Background to the delegation: Arts Council England Arts & Technology Priority: ix Symposium Delegation / i-DAT – 58437244

Purpose: To research, develop and deliver a research and development trip to inspire a delegation of emerging creatives to Symposium IX at SAT Montreal in 29 May –1  June 2019. http://ix.sat.qc.ca/

Proposition: To raise the profile of the SW as a world leader in arts technology, i-DAT will lead a delegation of SW creatives, curators and commissioners to attend IX Symposium in Montreal.

The aim of the delegation will be to bring these future leaders together to be inspired, gather intelligence and broker relationships between each other and international partners. The theme of the delegation is ‘immersion: digital immersive cultural experiences’ (DICE).

This ties in with the Market Hall, Plymouth developments as it develops a state of the art immersive dome, due to be the biggest in Europe. It builds on the success of the South West Creative Technology Network (SWCTN) Immersion Fellowships (swctn.org.uk).

These initiatives have established an urgent need for content, talent and audiences to be developed to ensure future success within the South West in this emergent field.

Defining the Territory: Immersive technology is any technology that extends reality or creates a new reality by leveraging the 360 space.

i-DAT and ACE are concerned with how the artistic idea or cultural experience drives innovative approaches in DICE.

Why Montreal: The interdisciplinary (arts, science & tech) sector in Montreal is the world leader in DICE. This is partly due to the strong investment in cinema and its evolution into new digital forms. This led to the development of a strong interdisciplinary clusters.

SAT (Society of Arts & Technology) is a physical space at the heart of this cluster which hosts a number of full domes (360 degree spaces which use projections to immerse audiences into creative content) and immersive technologies.

SAT will host iX Symposium which attracts international delegates to experience, debate and broker new partnerships to explore the opportunities in DICE.

SAT has a number of existing links with the South West region, such as FULLDOME UK, the E/M/D/L project and the inspirational blueprint for the Market Hall Fulldome installation (the Plymosphere?) (see above).

The delegation: The delegation has been defined through discussions with the regions leading initiatives in DICE, through the SW Arts Technology External Reference Group and the SW Creative Technology Network (SWCTN). Following a consultation process delegates were invited from organisations pioneering in this area; a selection of immersion fellows selected by the co-directors and recommendations from ACE staff.

Criteria for Delegates: The criteria for selection include:

  1. Quality of the delegates practice in ‘immersion: digital immersive cultural experiences’, including track record.
  2. Interdisciplinary approach in understanding the technology as well as driving the creative idea.
  3. Contribution to raising the profile of the SW with past and current projects and future ambitions.
  4. Commitment to the dates, expenses, networking and sharing the learning after the trip.
  5. Diversity across PCG & areas along with roles such as curator, commissioner & creative.

There will be a proactive approach to address the diversity imbalance in the digital sector.

The ix Symposium Delegation 2019 is funded by the Arts Council England in partnership with the i-DAT, SOCIÉTÉ DES ARTS TECHNOLOGIQUES, South West Creative Art and Technology Network, University of Plymouth.

Rosie Brave SWCTN Automation Fellow

Rosie Brave SWCTN Automation Fellow

 

We are please to announce that i-DAT’s Rosie Brave has been awarded a South West Creative Technology Automation Fellowship….

 

AUTOMATION 2019-20

Automation is changing the way we live. It is increasingly important within the creative industries as well as manufacturing, retail, financial services, and healthcare, to name just a few sectors. Automation could be seen as the ‘quiet’ revolution – working in the background to assist in creative processes, gradually transforming agriculture through robotics, or re-imagining how we search the internet.

We are looking for people to explore the frontiers of automation technology and its applications, to ask: What already exists? What’s new and what’s good in automation? Where are the gaps in the market? What are the challenges? What opportunities are out there? What are the possibilities?

 

B Aga SWCTN Automation Fellow

B Aga SWCTN Automation Fellow

 

We are please to announce that i-DAT’s B Aga has been awarded a South West Creative Technology Automation Fellowship….

 

AUTOMATION 2019-20

Automation is changing the way we live. It is increasingly important within the creative industries as well as manufacturing, retail, financial services, and healthcare, to name just a few sectors. Automation could be seen as the ‘quiet’ revolution – working in the background to assist in creative processes, gradually transforming agriculture through robotics, or re-imagining how we search the internet.

We are looking for people to explore the frontiers of automation technology and its applications, to ask: What already exists? What’s new and what’s good in automation? Where are the gaps in the market? What are the challenges? What opportunities are out there? What are the possibilities?

 

Alejandro Veliz Reyes SWCTN Automation Fellow

Alejandro Veliz Reyes SWCTN Automation Fellow

 

We are please to announce that i-DAT’s Alejandro Veliz Reyes has been awarded a South West Creative Technology Automation Fellowship….

 

AUTOMATION 2019-20

Automation is changing the way we live. It is increasingly important within the creative industries as well as manufacturing, retail, financial services, and healthcare, to name just a few sectors. Automation could be seen as the ‘quiet’ revolution – working in the background to assist in creative processes, gradually transforming agriculture through robotics, or re-imagining how we search the internet.

We are looking for people to explore the frontiers of automation technology and its applications, to ask: What already exists? What’s new and what’s good in automation? Where are the gaps in the market? What are the challenges? What opportunities are out there? What are the possibilities?

 

Coral Manton Immersion Prototype

Coral Manton Immersion Prototype

i-DAT’s Coral Manton awarded a SWCTN Prototype Grant: Immersive Histories: Decoding Complexity

A prototype to explore complexity in cultural collections, aimed at enhancing curators, researchers, and audiences to investigate and interpret the complexity in historic objects, places and people.

We are looking to invest in prototypes that use creative technologies to deliver original immersive processes, experiences, products or services. The making phase will run through April, May, June with showcasing at the end of June 2019. We anticipate awarding grants of between £20k and £40k.