Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound and Media Art

University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC); Santa Cruz (CA); Presencial; USD 70 000 - 90 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) is seeking an Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound and Media Arts. This role emphasizes teaching and mentoring in creative coding and media arts, with responsibilities including professional achievement and service.

Successful candidates will have significant experience in remote teaching and expertise in digital audio workstations and real-time multimedia production. Candidates committed to equity and diversity in education are encouraged to apply.

Qualificações

• Significant experience teaching in online and remote-access environments.
• Facility with hybrid and web-based pedagogical tools.
• Working expertise in one or more programming languages relevant to creative coding and media arts.

Responsabilidades

• Teaching courses and mentoring students in creative coding, sound studies, and media arts practice.
• Engagement in professional and scholarly achievement including creative activity.
• Contributing to University and public service.

Conhecimentos

Digital audio workstations

Real-time multimedia production

Creative coding environments

JavaScript

Python

C#

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The Music Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for an appointment as Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound and Media Arts from artist‑educators whose practice engages creative coding, sound, and media arts through ethical and critical approaches to technology, and who demonstrate a deep commitment to pedagogical excellence.

This role joins the core faculty of UCSC’s Creative Technologies program, a multi‑departmental online undergraduate major dedicated to innovative web‑based arts and design pedagogy and a curriculum that cultivates imagination, justice, and empowered community in digital contexts.

Responsibilities

Teaching courses and mentoring students in creative coding, sound studies, and media arts practice including sound art or electronic music. Additional teaching areas may include generative and algorithmic approaches to design and media, physical computing, interactive, participatory, and/or performance‑based digital media, music composition, ethical and critical approaches to emerging technologies in contemporary art, and other courses in the selected candidate’s areas of expertise.

The primary responsibilities for Teaching Professors are teaching; professional and/or scholarly achievement and activity, including creative activity especially as such activities relate to instruction and pedagogy; and University and public service. The ideal candidate will have significant experience teaching in online and remote‑access environments, and facility with hybrid and web‑based pedagogical tools.

Qualifications

The successful candidate must have practical proficiencies in one or more technologies from each of the following categories:

• Digital audio workstations (e.g., Reaper, Logic, Live, ProTools)
• Real‑time multimedia production (e.g., Max/MSP/Jitter, Pure Data, SuperCollider, Orca)
• Creative coding environments (e.g., Processing, p5.js, openFrameworks)

Along with the aforementioned software proficiencies, the candidate must have working expertise in one or more programming languages, with preference for those that have relevant application to creative coding, media arts, real‑time performance, and sound design/music (e.g., JavaScript, Python, C#).

Areas of specialization may include, but are not limited to:

• Accessibility‑focused and disability‑justice‑focused media practices, including universal and anti‑ableist design
• Critical and historical approaches to sound and listening
• Spatial audio and immersive media
• Socially engaged and community‑centered practice
• Ethical and critical approaches to machine learning and artificial intelligence
• Game art and interactive media platforms

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

UCSC is a Hispanic‑Serving Institution (HSI) and an Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander‑Serving Institution (AANAPISI) with a high proportion of first‑generation and low‑income students. Candidates who understand the historical barriers in higher education and can articulate how their teaching, mentoring, creative/professional activity, and service contribute to building a just scholarly community are encouraged to apply.

The Assistant Teaching Professor title confers the rights and responsibilities of membership in the UCSC and UC Academic Senates. Appointees may be promoted to Associate Teaching Professor (analogous to tenure). Titles of Associate Teaching Professor and Teaching Professor come with similar Senate membership and employment security analogous to tenure.