Lecturer: Digital Production in Art and Design

Department of Visual Arts

Lecturer in Visual Art and Design (Digital Production in Art and Design)

(Ref. LSW18/203/0617)

The Department of Visual Arts focuses on the training and development of visual artists and designers. Maintaining a broad and critical approach, emphasis rests on visual arts practices as research. The development of new media formats and practices, creative thinking processes and the practice of visual arts within cultural, economic, and socio-political contexts receive further emphasis.

Role

• Teaching and providing supervision in Digital Production across all years of study in a Visual Arts environment that promotes and facilitates intersections between Art and Design;
• Conducting research and creative production in the Visual Arts;
• Developing and maintaining competitive standards in Digital Production;
• Participating in the administration of the Visual Arts programme;
• Coordinating and participating in projects aimed at social impact.

Requirements

• Preferably a Master of Arts degree in Visual Arts with Digital Production, or an equivalent qualification;
• Thorough understanding of Digital Production as integral to Visual Art and Design;
• Skill and experience in training and teaching in this field on a Higher Educational level;
• Delivering research and creative work with the intersects between Art and Design as points of departure;
• Promoting innovation, creative and critical thinking in the above-mentioned field among undergraduate and postgraduate students;
• Working independently as well as collaboratively in developing, facilitating, and coordinating academic, creative, research-based, and socially relevant courses;
• The ability to function in a multilingual environment.

Desired

• Expertise and facilitation skills in Design and/or Illustration and/or Drawing in addition to Digital Production;
• Continuous research development in understanding these fields and their relevant technologies as integral to Art and Design;
• Sound administrative and communication skills.