[spectre] Two Curatorial Positions for Time-Based Arts at RPI/EMPAC

[Johannes Goebel]

Two Curatorial Positions for Time-Based Arts with Technology

EMPAC, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, is one of the major
initiatives of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. With
this project
Rensselaer declares the necessity of creating new grounds for culture
and society in
conjunction with research, technology and education. EMPAC will
provide a platform
where the vectors of research can meet the circles of reflection and
artistic creation.
Technology is to be challenged as art and perception are challenged and changed
by technology.
The new building for EMPAC will open towards the end of 2006. The building will
house a concert hall (1200 seats), a theater with fly-tower (400
seats), two studios/
black boxes  (3500 sqft/325 sqm and 40’/12m high - 2500 sqft/232 sqm and 28’/
8.5m high), four studios for artists-in-residence, a rehearsal studio
plus audio and
video production suites. The activities of EMPAC will start this year
and ramp up to
the opening.
EMPAC is serving the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Capital
Region of New
York State in its vicinity to the Berkshires, and the national and
international arts
community. EMPAC is not part of a Rensselaer school and has no teaching
obligations. EMPAC will collaborate in research activities of the
Institute, integrate
students, faculty, and staff in interdisciplinary projects, support
artistic productions
and extended artists-in-residencies, and provide a culturally diverse
and provocative
program.

(1)

Curator, Time-Based Arts with Technology: Performing Arts,
Video/Film, Installation

Responsibilities: The EMPAC Curator develops implements and manages EMPAC
specific programs for artists’ residencies, events, performances,
installations, and
symposia in collaboration with the EMPAC Director. This position will curate,
produce, supervise and manage performances and projects in cooperation with the
EMPAC Director; develops and implements funding strategies, public relations
activities, and contractual and financial aspects of specific
projects in coordination
with director and administrative staff. The incumbent will monitor
regional, national
and international developments under artistic and intellectual
perspectives specific
but not exclusive to the field of “art and technology,” establish and
maintain contacts
with artists, festivals and institutions with directions and scope
similar to those of
EMPAC on regional, national and international levels; and develop and
manage the
artists-in-residence program including complex productions in
collaboration with the
director and other program, technical and administrative staff.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in fine arts is necessary, with a
master’s degree
preferred. Must possess curatorial experience on the national and
international level
of contemporary artistic developments. Incumbents should have a solid
background
in Western experimental performing/visual arts of the 20th century
(dance, theater,
performance, installation, video, computer generated environments),
knowledge of
non-Western arts practices desired. Experience in project management of new
productions is also necessary.


(2)

Curator, Time-Based Arts with Technology: Music, Music Theater, Installation

Responsibilities: The EMPAC Curator develops implements and manages EMPAC
specific programs for artists’ resiencies, events, performances,
installations, and
symposia in collaboration with the EMPAC Director. This position will curate,
produce, supervise and manage performances and projects in cooperation with the
EMPAC Director; develops and implements funding strategies, public relations
activities, and contractual and financial aspects of specific
projects in coordination
with director and administrative staff. The incumbent will monitor
regional, national
and international developments under artistic and intellectual
perspectives specific
but not exclusive to the field of “art and technology,” establish and
maintain contacts
with artists, festivals and institutions with directions and scope
similar to those of
EMPAC on regional, national and international levels; and develop and
manage the
artists-in-residence program including complex productions in
collaboration with the
director and other program, technical and administrative staff.
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in fine arts is necessary, with a
master’s degree
preferred. Must possess curatorial experience on the national and
international level
of contemporary artistic developments. Incumbents should have a solid
background
in Western experimental music of the 20th century (non-academic and academic
from concert and music theater to installation and digital
technology), knowledge of
non-Western arts practices desired. Experience in project management of new
productions is also necessary.

Deadline: Applications accepted until position filled.

For further inquiries please contact the director of EMPAC, Johannes
Goebel, via e-
mail: jeg at rpi.edu
For applications, please visit http://www.rpi.edu/dept/hr/jobs.html