Position at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design of Izmir University of Economics, TURKEY

Bianca — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:57:30 +0100

FASHION DESIGN DEPARTMENT (1 position)

The successful candidate will provide entry level instruction, focusing on the fundamental elements of fashion design including, research, concept development, product design development and realisation, while developing key skills such as sketchbook creation, mood board development and basic fashion drawing.

The successful candidate will work in a team oriented department and should be a dynamic, enthusiastic, and dedicated educator. Candidates should have an ability to design course curriculum materials and deliver lessons in English; they will also be responsible for day-to-day administrative, academic, and managerial decisions.

Applicants must hold a Masters degree (PhD preferred), and a minimum of 2 years previous teaching experience at university level.

For all positions, the consideration of applications will begin immediately. Applications must be received by 2 February 2009. Applicants must send a curriculum vitae, a letter of application explaining how they fulfill the requirements of the positions, examples of professional work and/or student projects overseen by the candidate (maximum 20 pages or one CD), and the names and contact details of three references, clearly marking the position applying for, to the relevant contact person:

Fashion Design Position:
Angela Burns, Lecturer
angela.burns@ieu.edu.tr

at the following postal address:

Faculty of Fine Arts and Design
Izmir University of Economics
Sakarya Caddesi No: 156
Balcova, IZMIR 35330
T U R K E Y

eMotion: mapping museum experience

Martin Wiedmer — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:27:15 +0200

eMotion examines the museum as force-field through an in-situ experimental
exhibition set-up. The trans-disciplinary project seeks to map the psycho-geographic
perceptual effects upon the visitor produced by the museum; its’ objects and its’
modes of display.
http://www.mapping-museum-experience.com

Opening: June 4, 2009 | 18:30
Dates: June 5 – July 19, 2009

Kunstmuseum St.Gallen
Museumstrasse 32
CH-9000 St.Gallen
Switzerland
http://www.kunstmuseumsg.ch

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Neuro-aesthetics in Museum Research

Can the perception of ‘art’ be measured? And if so, how could that be done?
This is the central question at hand that has brought together an international
research team from several universities to test out their ideas within the context
of an experimental exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts St. Gallen, Switzerland
(Kunstmuseum St. Gallen).
After three years of preparation at the University of Design and Art Basel, the project
will open to the public on June 4 at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. From June 5th to
July 19th, museum visitors can participate within this artistic research project.
Visitors taking part in eMotion will be presented with a view of their own art-perception,
their mental, physical as well as temporal reactions, will be rendered palpable within
an installation subsequent to the exhibition.

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The Museum as Force-Field
The research team follows in the conceptual tradition of Alexander Dorner, a founding
figure in contemporary curatorship, by investigating the museum as a force-field
(“Kraftfeld”). The research will not attempt to name what art is, but rather how it
operates within the museum situation, the ways in which the works produce affect,
and effects the perception of the museum visitor.

Within the canons of art discourse, there exist several theories as to the phenomenon of
art perception – yet to date only rarely empirically tested. If one, for example, follows
institutionally oriented models of explanation, it is the museum, or institutional context that
frames the work of art as such. Art theoretical and curatorial positions suggest that the
meaning of an artwork is created by the hanging, positioning and spatial relationships
within a perceptual field. Art psychology would suggest that meaning comes from the
work, its materiality (or lack thereof) and “Gestalt” to produce an effect upon the viewer.
Art sociologists argue that it is the biographical baggage of the visitor – their
expectations and foreknowledge – that combine to forge an experience for the visitor.

It is, however, the underlying thesis of eMotion that all such diverse, disciplinary
perspectives (the institutional, curatorial, psychological and sociological positions),
coalesce in the production of an experience for the viewer - the combined effects of
‘Becoming-Art’ (Boris Groys). As such, the eMotion team has operated in a distinctly
trans-disciplinary fashion, compounding the research approaches of sociologists,
psychologists, art theorists and museums studies. Programmers, tracking specialists and
interface developers have been working alongside the scientific team, developing tools through
which substantial information can be culled.

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Artistic Research
The cross-pollination of artistic methods of research and presentation across diverse fields of
knowledge is at the heart of interest at the Institute for Design and Art-Research, Applied University
of Design and Art, Basel. In the creative economy, the mercurial nature of artistic research possesses
the strength in developing novel forms of seeing and experiencing the intangible, thus opening up
unknown knowledge territories to interpretation. The task of the artists taking part in the project is
to develop modes of collection and translation of data – opening up an aesthetic field for the
visitors and scientists to understand the impact of the museum and it’s contents.

eMotion is a National Research project of the Institute for Design and Artistic Research at the
Applied University of Design and Art Basel. Partner Institutions are: Kunstmuseum St.Gallen,
University Basel, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen,
ETH Zürich and the University of Cambridge.

Further information can be found on our website:
http://www.mapping-museum-experience.com

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eMotion is a Research and Media Arts Project funded by the Swiss National
Science Foundation and Ubisense.