Dear All –
Please distribute widely. Contact me directly if you have any questions. *Cheers* *Sam Ferguson*, Senior Lecturer Co-director, Creativity and Cognition Studios School of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney Rm 11.7.204 (call 4682) | Ph: 95144682 | Em: samuel.fergu...@uts.edu.au *Interaction Design PhD Scholarship * *University of Technology Sydney and UNSW Art and Design* The University of Technology Sydney is pleased to be offering a three-year fully funded PhD Scholarship as part of an industry-linked ARC-funded project entitled ' Artistically rethinking creative coding for digital media'. This scholarship will be based in the Creativity and Cognition Studios at UTS (Faculty of Engineering and IT), with collaboration from the Interactive Media Laboratory at UNSW, and will be supervised by Dr Sam Ferguson (principal supervisor, UTS) and Dr Ollie Bown (co-supervisor, UNSW). This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an important project with access to world leading facilities, and a range of industry partners to undertake practice-based and industry-related interaction design research. The PhD scholarship will comprise tuition fees and a stipend of AUD$26k+ per year for 3 years, indexed annually. Alongside their research projects, successful candidates are able to work some additional hours per week on teaching or research support as needs may arise. *Project Title: Artistically rethinking creative coding for digital media* Project Description: This project will investigate improved workflows to support the creative exploratory power of creators of interactive media experiences for public events, galleries, stage shows and installations, which increasingly involve complex networks of devices, such as interacting audio, visual and sensor elements. It will innovate digital creativity techniques to enable creators to move from brittle problem solving tasks to a creatively fertile exploration of design outcomes. The research is expected to result in new models of creative practice, and more productive support tools for practitioners, for whom development costs are a significant limiting expense. The PhD candidate will have the following experience and skills, gained either from an educational or professional context: * Interaction design experience in a computing context * Interviewing, Qualitative Research, or Workshop Facilitation experience * Programming experience with prototyping languages (Max/MSP, Processing, Arduino etc.) The following experience and skills are not required but highly valued: * Artistic or design practice experience * IoT and/or hardware experience * Java/Python or similar programming and software engineering experience *Expected Role and Duties* The PhD candidate will: * Observe several arts project development processes * Conduct qualitative research (primarily using interviews) in conjunction with several arts project development processes * Analyse research data and write research papers To apply for this PhD position please send the following documents by email to Sam Ferguson (samuel.fergu...@uts.edu.au), cc'ing Ollie Bown ( o.b...@unsw.edu.au): * A curriculum vitae (approx 6 pages but shorter is fine, but please include a publication list) * A covering letter outlining your suitability for the position and project (1-2 pages) * A recent piece of critical writing you have completed (max 3000 words) - or you may include links to writing in your CV. * If applicable, links to software, artworks, or systems you have written or developed. *Deadline for applications 31st January 2020. Please apply earlier if you are able to start earlier. * Please indicate in your application when you are available to start the project – ideally we would like someone to be available to begin the project in February or March. Online/Document Version: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SqVjVPsiAHP66Ql4_fDzgHr7fyXqjvCDM6NRW7nXKE/edit?usp=sharing
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