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Alfred University School of Art & Design invites applications for Director of the Institute for Electronic Arts (IEA). Appointment to begin August 2023.

The Director of IEA oversees all aspects of the operations of the institute including leadership in planning, setting priorities, and program development. The IEA facilitates an extensive and well-known visiting artist technological residency program and projects that are funded through an endowment and a long history of grants. The IEA is a high-technology-research studio facility within the School of Art and Design, New York State College of Ceramics, at Alfred University, New York. IEA encourages and supports projects that involve interactive multi-media systems, experimental sonic/video production, digital imaging, print media explorations and growing publications. IEA is committed to developing cultural interactions spurred by technological experimentation and artistic investigations. Established in 1997, The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University (AU) has a focus on developing electronic imaging studios to support cross-disciplinary work and to sponsor digital media artist residencies for the promotion of professional dialogues.

We seek a highly energetic, creative, organized, and collaborative leader with a comprehensive understanding of contemporary digital media art practice. We value and promote the incorporation of both traditional and emerging technologies.

We seek candidates with a demonstrated sensitivity to and understanding of diverse communities and related pedagogical approaches. Diversity is highly valued at Alfred University including a broad range of ability, age, gender, gender identity and expression, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic and academic experience, and veteran status. The successful candidate will have demonstrated an overall commitment to promoting and enhancing diversity including the ability to communicate and work effectively with individuals from diverse backgrounds and cultures.

The Director of the Institute for Electronic Arts position is a twelve-month position. The Director will have the opportunity to teach one course per semester in the School of Art and Design

Duties

Manage IEA’s Experimental Project Residency Programs (EPR), supported by NYSCA and NEA, sponsors approximately 18 artists a year. The Director takes leadership in writing, submitting, implementing and reporting for all grants through Alfred University’s office of Sponsored Programs. Maintain and advance IEA’s integrated sound, video and print media studios. Supervise staff that assist the director in the residency programs regarding scheduling artists, travel and contracts. Maintain ongoing relationships and partnerships with art organizations of Western New York and be active in engaging the greater community. Continue and expand international relationships and linkages. Information about the IEA can be found here:

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Terminal degree in art and/or design or related or professional experience equivalent.
  • Experience of working in arts organizations with demonstrated ability in successful grant writing and management
  • A history of interdisciplinary program development
  • Experience with strategic planning, budget, facilities and personnel.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Demonstrated ability to develop and lead an innovative community-based arts organization.
  • Experience with or a deep understanding of digital media in both time-based and print media forms and their histories.
  • Demonstrated personnel management.
  • A working artist in the field

Additional Information for Applicants:

To ensure full consideration please apply by January 15, 2023. However, applications will be received until the position is filled.

Please upload the following documents when completing your application:

  • Letter of interest
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Contact information for 3 references (email and phone).
  • Submit a link to professional website and/or provide up to 10 work samples or links in a single PDF if a working artist.
  • Statement of leadership philosophy.
  • Diversity statement that describes your effectiveness in promoting inclusive excellence among diverse populations in artistic creation, research, and/or practice.

About Alfred University

One of the first co-educational institutions in the United States, Alfred University is a top-ranked, small, comprehensive university committed to both teaching and research, and is devoted to the pursuit of technical expertise, artistic creativity, and humanistic learning. Located in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains in western New York State, Alfred University has a current enrollment of around 1800 full and part-time undergraduate and graduate students, and 150 fulltime faculty.

The School of Art and Design at Alfred University is an accredited member of NASAD, with 35 fulltime faculty serving more than 500 students. The School is unique among institutions of higher education, with an open curriculum, allowing a robust and diverse experience in studio art, design, and art history courses. Students and faculty alike thrive in an intensive and supportive learning environment. School of Art and Design students are fully integrated into Alfred University’s community of2000 students. The New York State College of Ceramics (NYSCC) includes the School of Art and Design, the lnamori School of Engineering, and Scholes Library. The NYSCC was established in 1900 to advance research in art, design, and engineering. That intellectual and creative legacy exists in all of the areas of study in the School of Art and Design.

Alfred University actively subscribes to a policy of equal employment opportunity, and will not discriminate against any employee, student or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, physical or mental disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, marital status, genetic information, military or veteran status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Protected veterans, minorities and women are encouraged to apply.

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