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DIGITAL ART AND COMPUTER GAMING EMPHASIS: Full-Time, Assistant Professor, Tenure Track Position, Department of Art and Art History at San Jose State University. Seeking qualified candidates for a tenure track position in the newly formed Art, Technology and Media program, which is a merger of two programs formerly known as Spatial Art (sculpture) and Digital Media Art. Graduate MFA, MS, or PhD degree in a field related to Gaming required. Visit the SJSU Faculty Affairs website for more information, Humanities and Arts Job Opening ID: 14253. Deadline for full consideration, January 31, 2012. Starting Date, August 20, 2012. http://www.sjsu.edu/facultyaffairs/Unit_3/Tenure_Track/Employment/index.htm

UCLA SCI/ART NANOLAB: IMAGINE THE "IMPOSSIBLE": July 16-27, 2012. The Sci|Art NanoLab is a highly competitive summer program for high school students interested in collaborating with diverse and notable minds to challenge traditional, polarized perspectives of the arts and sciences. This program is open to high school students that are graduating seniors or will be juniors and seniors in the fall. Throughout the 2-week intensive program, students will make connections between cutting edge scientific research, popular culture and contemporary arts. Lab visits, workshops, hands-on experiments, and meetings with world renowned scientists will be balanced with visits to museums, daily movie screenings and meetings with famous contemporary artists who collaborate with scientists. A team of science and art graduate students will lead participants. Throughout the two weeks, students will be developing presentations of group research projects in which they imagine the "impossible." Sponsored by UCLA's ART|SCI Center, Department of Design | Media Arts and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) , the Sci|Art Nanolab focuses on multi-disciplinary collaborations exploring the possibilities and implications of scientific and technological innovation. Running in parallel with the NanoSystems Chemistry and Engineering Research (NanoCER) program at CNSI and the Design | Media Arts Institute at the Broad Arts Center, Sci | Art NanoLab students will benefit from exposure and collaboration with art and science faculty and students participating in this program's team-based interdisciplinary nanoscience research. Admission to the program is by instructor consent. As part of the application process, applicants will be asked to submit a 500-word essay. Although not required, we strongly encourage students to submit a Letter of Recommendation from a teacher or counselor. Recommenders may submit their comments via email to: sciart@cnsi.ucla.edu. For more info: http://artsci.ucla.edu/summer/. Register online: https://www.summer.ucla.edu/institutes/Register/institutes_register.cfm

PHD IN ART-SCIENCE: NEW RENAISSANCE AT UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, DALLAS: The University of Texas, Dallas is pleased to announce a new PhD program that seeks to enable research and education that couples the Arts and Humanities with the Sciences and Engineering. We are seeking first rate candidates from diverse backgrounds (academia, private industry, non governmental organizations, make and hacker collectives) within the ATEC Arts and Technology PhD Program. More info at: http://malina.diatrope.com/2011/12/19/phd-in-art-science-new-renaissance-at-university-of-texas-dallas/ Roger Malina has been named Distinguished Chair of Arts and Technology and Professor of Physics in the School Natural Sciences and Mathematics and will be supervising student research projects. Students in Science, Engineering or Arts and Humanities may enroll in the PhD. In addition to the art-science research Projects, a Leonardo Initiatives Office has been established in partnership with Leonardo/ The International Society for the Arts and Society. Projects will include a program on Experimental Publishing and Curating in partnership with the EMAC Emerging Media and Communications program at UT Dallas. More information on the PhD: http://malina.diatrope.com/2011/12/19/phd-in-art-science-new-renaissance-at-university-of-texas-dallas/ More information on ATEC and EMAC: http://www.utdallas.edu/ah/atec/ http://emac.utdallas.edu/ If you might be interested in enrolling in the PhD program feel free to contact Roger Malina: rmalina(at)alum.mit.edu.

SPACES OF LIFE: THE ART OF SONYA RAPOPORT: Exhibition curated by Terri Cohn and Anuradha Vikram, 18 January‒11 March 2012, at Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, U.S.A. Opening reception on 18 January 2012, 6:00‒8:00 P.M. The art of Sonya Rapoport has long operated as a bridge between the public sphere of intellectual curiosity and scholarship, and the domestic one of spiritual inquiry and nurturing. Spaces of Life presents a group of Rapoport's interactive works, created between 1980‒2011, that function in the intersection between questioning and inviting. The installation is structured so as to infuse the spaces of the museum with the energy of the artist's Berkeley home and studio. The exhibition presents a mixture of documentation of original interactive installations, domestic objects that provide a launching pad for interactions, and new interpretations of interactive works that will be developed in conjunction with Mills students and departments. Visitors to the gallery will engage in ongoing, distributed performance actions that draw on imagery and ideas from a range of disciplines including biochemistry, anthropology, psychology, and feminist studies. Central to this installation of Rapoport's work at Mills is Objects on My Dresser (1979-1983), an 11-phase work intended as a kind of "conceptual visit" to the artist's home and studio. Objects on My Dresser will be contextualized by other works that consider domestic concerns through the lens of academic and scientific research. Visit Mills College Art Museum, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613, U.S.A. Information: (510) 430-2164. Directions: (510)430-3250. Email: museum@mills.edu. Hours: Tuesday‒Sunday 11:00 AM‒4:00 PM; Wednesdays 11:00 am‒7:30 pm; closed Mondays. Admission: Free for all exhibitions and programs.

Updated 1 February 2012