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[Todd Ingalls]

Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Movement, Computation and Digital Media

The Arts, Media and Engineering Program (AME) (http://ame.asu.edu)  
and the Dance Department ) (http://dance.asu.edu) at Arizona State  
University are announcing an opening for a tenure-track assistant  
professor in Movement, Computation and Digital Media.

AME is an internationally leading program for transdisciplinary  
graduate research and education in media arts and sciences. The  
program has established digital media concentrations in the PhD and  
Masters degrees of ten different disciplines: Dance, Visual Art,  
Music, Theater and Film, Design, Electrical Engineering, Computer  
Science and Informatics, Bioengineering, Psychology, and Education.  
The program also offers a PhD in Media Arts and Sciences.  Twelve AME  
faculty and thirty affiliated faculty from the participating  
departments work collaboratively with graduate students supported by  
research assistantships for the creation of innovative experiential  
media systems, models and applications. AME, a strategic initiative  
of ASU, has state of the art media facilities and diverse external  
support streams.

The ASU Dance Department is one of the top dance training schools in  
the U.S. running both undergraduate and graduate programs with  
special concentrations on choreography, performance and dance  
education. Media and technology have been key elements in the  
department’s approach for many years enabling students to explore  
diverse applications in relationship to research, production and  
performance.

The successful candidate will take a leadership role in the  
exploration of the movement aspects of adaptive and responsive  
multimodal systems at AME and the Dance Department and will also lead  
student training in this area. The individual hired will spearhead  
research in cutting-edge areas: interactive movement, codification of  
movement qualities and extraction of meaning, embodied learning and  
computer-assisted movement training. The appointee’s efforts will  
merge with efforts of other AME and Dance faculty for the achievement  
of significant advancements in interactive experiential media.  
Teaching assignments are reasonable and will relate to the  
appointee’s interests, research and creation.

The appointee will have their tenure home with AME. They will further  
have the opportunity to place 25% of their appointment with the Dance  
Department. This will allow for close collaboration with Dance  
faculty, supervision of Dance students and opportunities for special  
topics courses within Dance. The appointee will coordinate research  
and education activities across the two units on issues relating to  
movement, computation and digital media.

Required Qualifications: Terminal degree in Dance, Kinesiology,  
Digital Media or closely related field OR undergraduate degree (or  
equivalent) in Dance, Kinesiology, Digital Media or closely related  
field and international recognition as a leading movement  
practitioner AND a creative and/or scholarly record with emphasis on  
movement, computation and digital media appropriate to rank.

Desired Qualifications: Interdisciplinary experience in movement  
research and creation spanning Media, Arts and Engineering;  
experience in codification of movement qualities, and/or embodied  
learning and/or computer-assisted movement training; industry and/or  
practical experience; funded research in movement.

Application Deadline: November 25, 2007; if not filled, every FOUR  
weeks thereafter until search is closed. Anticipated start date is  
August 18, 2008.

Application Procedure: Send a letter of interest; CV; up to four  
representative samples of work: demos of research and/or creation  
products and/or publications; and, names, addresses and telephone  
numbers for three professional references to: Chair, Movement,  
Computation and Digital Media Search, AME, Box 878709, Tempe, Arizona  
85287-8709.   Background check required for employment.   For more  
information write to: mcdm-search at asu.edu.

Arizona State University is an AA/EO employer