Assistant Professor in Digital Media Art: Emphasis in Creative Code & AI

 

Position Rank and Title: Assistant Professor in Digital Media Art: Emphasis in Creative Code & AI

School/Department Name: Department of Art and Art History

Compensation: Commensurate with qualifications, experience, and rank as established by the CSU Salary Schedule. Anticipated hiring academic year annual salary range: $88,000 - $90,000. Faculty employee benefits are very competitive for the higher education sector.  See the CSU Employee Benefits Summary for details about the CSU’s excellent benefits package.

Target Start Date: August 17, 2024

Application Deadline: January 13, 2025 – Applications are accepted until the position is filled or closed

Position Description

The Department of Art and Art History in the College of Humanities and the Arts at San José State University invites applications for a tenure-track position in Creative Code, Web-Based Practices, and/or Artificial Intelligence. We seek an artist, designer, or scholar with a strong creative and research practice who is interested in contributing to and expanding our Digital Media Art program through innovative, multidisciplinary approaches. Serving BA, BFA, and MFA students, the ideal candidate will engage students with cutting-edge technologies and foster critical dialogue around the intersections of art, technology, and society. The ideal candidate will also possess experience with multidisciplinary collaboration--across design, computer science, and other disciplines--to address aesthetic, social, and cultural trends in digital media art and technology.

The successful candidate will possess critical and art historical knowledge combined with a contemporary creative practice focused on the aesthetic, conceptual, and technical production of digital artworks with an emphasis on Creative Code and Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, these research and teaching expectations will serve to support multidisciplinary art, innovation, and technology initiatives within the department and across the university.

About the University

Founded in 1911, the Department of Art and Art History remains one of the oldest, most comprehensive, and most affordable fine arts schools in the western United States and more specifically within the state of California. San José State University is in downtown San José, the tenth largest city in the United States and the hub of Silicon Valley. The Art and Art History Department is strategically located in close proximity to some of the major research institutions located in the Bay Area like Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley among others. The city and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area recognize and support art, creativity, and technology as cornerstones for regional development. As a major contributor to the artistic life of the area, the University frequently partners with the city to bring art programs to the area. The location also provides easy access to the thriving art community of San Francisco and Oakland to the north and the expansive art market and cultural venues of Los Angeles to the south.

The Department of Art and Art History offers a unique combination of award-winning faculty and staff, outstanding facilities, and a wide range of focus areas, including traditional and digital media arts, art history and visual culture, and curatorial studies. Our acclaimed network of alumni, curators, artists, teachers, historians, and arts professionals represent the very best of what the Bay Area has to offer, providing our students with the opportunity to build a robust practice within a chosen discipline. Committed faculty and staff provide students access to our “best-in-the-west” education and facilities, generated through invaluable professional and personal relationships offered within a welcoming and supportive community; a dynamic student gallery system; a weekly lecture series showcasing renowned artists, thinkers and critics; the professionally-curated and endowed Thompson Gallery, with its groundbreaking exhibitions; a cutting edge curriculum; extensive facilities, including darkrooms, a foundry, glass facilities, and state-of-the art computer and digital fabrication labs; and professional development opportunities in and around the Silicon Valley.

San Jose State University regularly tops national rankings in public education, affordability and social mobility for our diverse student body being ranked ranked as the #4 best public university in the nation and #16 overall by the Wall St