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0.6fte Lecturer in Digital Art & Technology / Immersive Media Design

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0.6fte Lecturer in Digital Art & Technology / Immersive Media Design

0.6fte Lecturer in Digital Art & Technology / Immersive Media Design


Faculty of Arts

School of Art & Media

Ref: A1931
Salary £30747 to £43840 pa, pro rata – Grade 7/8
The University of Plymouth is consistently recognised as one of the top three new universities in the UK and the Faculty of Arts, one of its most successful faculties. The School of Art & Media, situated in the Faculty of Arts, has received significant investment in the last four years enabling it to enhance its reputation for premium, well-resourced, contemporary programmes. Digital Art & Technology programmes are at the forefront of the school’s portfolio of innovative courses, embedding production, design and practice within digital media.
We are seeking a Lecturer to develop and integrate immersive media technologies, in particular data visualisation, CGI, 3D, game engines and motion graphics, within the practical teaching across the undergraduate (BA/BSc) and postgraduate (MRes) programmes in the school. You will contribute to the development and utilisation of digital media resources for PhD and post-doctoral research, and innovation (commercialisation and public engagement). These include a unique 40 seat, 9m full dome digital projection environment. The post will engage proactively and critically with trans-disciplinary activities which operate across cultural and technological aspects of digital practices.
You will be required to have academic leadership qualities combined with practical digital art and technology software, hardware and design skills. You will have significant Higher Education teaching experience, a track record of cross-disciplinary research and enterprise, and preferably experience of doctoral research supervision. You 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 and for the benefit of other disciplines.
Recruitment and selection will be based on individual merit; however, we would particularly like to encourage applications from women, and people from black and ethnic minorities who are under-represented in the Faculty.
This is a part-time position working 18.5 hours per week on a permanent basis.
For an informal discussion, please contact Professor Mike Phillips by email mike.phillips@plymouth.ac.uk or telephone 01752 586262, although applications must be made in accordance with the details shown.
CLOSING DATE: 28/01/2011
University of Plymouth HR Link
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/working

Ellie Harrison at Plymouth College of Art

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Ellie Harrison at Plymouth College of Art

Plymouth College of Art

Ellie Harrison
www.ellieharrison.com

A rundown but functional old vending machine stands alone in the Viewpoint Gallery at Plymouth College of Art. Every now and again, without warning, it springs into life – spewing out free packets of crisps for gallery visitors. The machine, you see, has been modified. It no longer functions in the conventional way – at the whim of snack-hungry students – but instead now finds itself in the control of outside forces… Its new nervous system is a networked computer. Hidden out of view and running special software, it continually scans the news on the BBC RSS feed – commanding the machine only to release snacks when words relating to the recession make the headlines.

Whilst seemingly an act of generosity – gifting free food at moments when further doom and gloom is reported – the Vending Machine also hints towards a time in the future when our access to food may literally be determined by wider political or environmental events. We may not be able to access what we want, when we want, at the touch of a button. This dystopian vision is toyed with in an accompanying piece in collaboration with i-DAT . For the first two weeks of the exhibition at the Viewpoint Gallery, the GreenScreen on the front of the Portland Square Building at the University of Plymouth will be used to make public-service-style announcements at the exact moments when the Vending Machine releases food. The words ‘FREE FOOD’ will appear, emblazoned in metre-high letters on the side of the building encouraging passersby to run to the gallery and claim their supplies.

The Vending Machine project is one of the outcomes of Ellie’s period of residency at Plymouth College of Art in 2009 and is on show at the college Viewpoint Gallery as part of her solo exhibition from 23rd April – 30th May 2009. It was programmed by Ben Dembroski in PureData and Python and uses project2891 to communicate with i-DAT in order to activate the messages on the GreenScreen. Production assistance by Jason Mills.
http://www.ellieharrison.com/index.php?pagecolor=3&pageId=project-vendingmachine

Exhibition Opening:
5.00pm – 7.30pm
Wed 22nd April

Open to the public:
Thurs 23rd April Sat 30th May

 

Digital Media Developer: Research vacancy

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Digital Media Developer: Research vacancy

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REF: A0228. (03/06/2007) Salary £20437 to £23692 pa, Grade 5. Plymouth. A Research Assistant is required to work for a period of six months within i-DAT to develop software to support the display of information and graphics to interpretation screens across the campus and over the internet. The post involves a close relationship with The Centre for Sustainable Futures and will require the development of media platforms to support aspects of the Centre’s delivery of information and knowledge to a wide audience. Applications are invited from people with a good Honours degree in a computing subject, who have some industrial experience in the development of serverside and networked technologies. For an informal discussion, please contact Chris Speed on 01752 232613 or email chris.speed@plymouth.ac.uk. Interviews will be held on Wednesday 11 July 2007. CLOSING DATE: 12 NOON, WEDNESDAY, 15 JUNE 2007. http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=19178

Everything is Not Everything.

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Everything is Not Everything.

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Everything is Not Everything – the stage two event for artists enrolled in the b-DAT ( digital art and technology ) course at the university of Plymouth took place across the campus on Thursday, 08 March 2007. Work and installations offered an alternative interpretation of the campus through the use of locative media and mobile phone technology. http://www.everythingisnoteverything.co.uk

Applause SW

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Applause SW

Applause South West is a New Opportunities Fund Digitisation project with Plymouth Library and Information Service, i-DAT, Theatre Royal, TSW Film &Television Archive, Plymouth Learning Links, the City Museum and Plymouth and West Devon Record Office. Archives hidden in rarely used collections and materials that are too fragile to be handled are being digitally archived by the project, which also provides access to virtual tours of long lost South West theatres, production diaries and documentation, and interactive exploration of theatre artefacts. The project provides rich opportunity to explores the manipulation of digital objects within online environments and their distribution across a range of media formats and data systems. Now hosted by Plymouth City Council.
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