The Arts & Humanities School here at UT-Dallas is hiring a postdoc that maybe of interest to emerging media folks out there:

The University of Texas at Dallas seeks applications for a postdoctoral fellow in Digital Humanities in support of its research programs in Arts and Humanities, including but not limited to digital content design and development, game design, translation studies, and the cultural impact of developments in science and technology. The fellow will be affiliated with the Center for Values in Medicine, Science and Technology.

The ideal candidate will hold a PhD in a humanities-related field, have a commitment to working in an interdisciplinary humanities environment, be familiar with the most recent work in the Digital Humanities, and have strong grant writing skills and a basic understanding of project management. The appointment will begin either January 2010 or June 2010, and last through August 2011.

The primary responsibility of the fellow will be in helping faculty to organize and improve existing projects as well as develop future research. While expertise in a particular coding or scripting language (PHP, Ruby on Rails, CSS, XML, SQL databases) is not a prerequisite, basic literacy and familiarity with these tools is necessary.

Curriculum vitae; a letter of application with a summary of research history, research interests, descriptions of educational background and
teaching experience, and links to relevant projects; and at least three letters of reference should be submitted via the online application form.

Please contact David Parry (dparry@utdallas.edu) or Jessica C. Murphy (jessica.c.murphy@utdallas.edu) with questions.

Please see the website for full job posting and application instructions.

The School of Arts and Humanities at University of Texas at Dallas.

Congratulations to one of our graduate students, Mona Karsa, whose panel has been accepted as part of SXSW Interactive. It would be hard to overstate what a tremendous achievement this is. Over 2300 panels were proposed, only 100 of which were selected. The list of accepted panels reads like a who is who list of influential voices in emerging media.

Mona’s panel is interesting and relevant, and more importantly, addresses something that can all too often get overlooked in our Western Centric Techno-Utopic rhetoric.

***attention EMAC students***

EMAC will be part of Dallas VideoFest 2009 & you can be a part of it, too!

Just send us a few of your YouTube/Vimeo /Metacafe or any other online video picks by Tuesday Oct 20th for a chance to be included in EMAC’s hour long online social video program curated by media artists/PhD students Kyle Kondas and Mona Kasra.

User-generated videos are everywhere on the web these days, but EMAC VideoFest program is specifically looking for those that utilize the online video platforms as creative outlets and span the possibilities of social video beyond the general content sharing practices. Nominated videos can be from variety of styles and genres including mashups, webcam videos, fiction, nonfiction, social, political,… but must exhibit originality and creativity.

Email us the links to your online video picks at utdemac@gmail.com no later than Tuesday Oct 20th. Don’t forget to include your preferred contact info (for example your twitter ID). we would like to credit you correctly if your video gets selected!

At the meantime, mark your calendars for:

VIDEOFEST 22
NOV. 5 – 8th Dallas TX
Angelika Theater Mockingbird Station

Hope to see you there and thanks for participating in EMAC’s crowdsourcing video project!

Mona Kasra @monaism
& Kyle Kondas @kyle1point0

Recognized as “the key American video festival,” VideoFest is the oldest continually running video festival in the nation. VideoFest is a four-day event featuring more than 200 screenings of local, regional and internationally produced programs of all genres.
Video Association of Dallas (V.A.D.) host of VideoFest, continues to be the voice of innovative, independent cinema for the Dallas area. http://www.videofest.org