[spectre] Job Vacancy - Creative Director, The Media Centre Huddersfield/UK

[Matt Locke]

CREATIVE DIRECTOR
Salary - =A326-28,000

The Media Centre, as a core part of its business strategy, delivers a
research and commissioning programme investigating the creative
possibilities of digital media and the urban environment. Recent research
has focused on interactions between mobile telephone users and their
environment - from the ability to display text messages on a building to
research on the emotional spaces created by people using their phones. This
research has developed a world-wide reputation for The Media Centre amongst
peers and project partners, including The Guardian, ICA, and Photographer's
Gallery. As current Creative Director Matt Locke is moving on to take up
the post of Creative Director at BBC Imagineering, The Media Centre is now
looking to build on this foundation, and expand the scope of this activity.

The opening of The Medialounge, a state-of-the art showcase for digital
media located in the public space of the Media Centre, offers a powerful
opportunity to display digital media in an urban setting; along with
Speakers Corner, an innovative public art project that connects people via
the web, SMS or voice to a giant text display screen on the Media Centre's
facade. The expansion of the Media Centre's core business into building
networks of creative professionals in a "virtual" community as well as
physical office space offers another opportunity for development. The Media
Centre also has close links with the local academic community, and is a
partner with Huddersfield University in the Digital Research Unit, focusing
on "Digital Media and the Built Environment". The DRU, located at The Media
Centre, has multi-year funding agreements in place and under development to
deliver up to 10 innovative research commissions a year.

The Media Centre is at a very exciting stage of its development, and this
is a tremendous opportunity for a creative individual, bursting with ideas
about digital media and urban space, to put their ideas into practice in a
state-of-the-art commercial and creative environment as part of a talented
and supportive team.

=46or more details, please contact:

Toby Hyam
Chief Executive
The Media Centre
7 Northumberland St
Huddersfield
HD1 1RL

t: 01484 483001
e: toby@the-media-centre.co.uk

Deadline for applications - 19th October, 2001







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Matt Locke
Creative Director
The Media Centre
site under construction - www.the-media-centre.co.uk
current project - www.speakerscorner.org.uk
direct line - +44 1484 483003