[dance-tech] Re: Culture lab research associate post

Hello SallyJ,
thank you for the postings. How are you?
 I  read the posting sbout the job announcement and it
looks very interesting. I will be applying. So, please
let me know, honnestly if I am competitive for this
position.
Have a wonderful holidays!
marlon


--- Sally Jane Norman <S.J.Norman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Dear Dance & Tech friends,
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> With very best wishes to all for the
> end-of-the-beginning-of-the-year festivities, and
> thanks for recent updates - Isabel! - please find
> below a job announcement for my lab in Newcastle
> that may be of interest. Formal queries can be dealt
> with by Sarah Barber (cited below) as of Jan 3rd.
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> amicalement
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> UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
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> CULTURE LAB NEWCASTLE AND NEWCASTLE INSTITUTE FOR
> THE ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (NIASSH)
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> RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
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> £23,182 - £25,565
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> Information for Candidates
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> We wish to appoint a motivated and flexible Research
> Associate to Culture Lab and NIASSH. You will be
> responsible for (i) coordinating Culture Lab input
> to the INSCAPE project on Interactive Storytelling
> for Creative People, an interdisciplinary research
> consortium set up as part of the European
> Commission's Sixth Framework Programme on
> Information Society Technologies
> (http://www.inscapers.com
> <http://www.inscapers.com/> ). You will contribute
> to a range of research initiatives concerned with
> the interactions of technology, creativity,
> performance, and narrative and notably to INSCAPE's
> "Live Performances" component, in the form of input
> to collective texts and workshops designed to
> explore and validate real-time storytelling
> techniques; (ii) generating documentation on INSCAPE
> practical workshop activities to provide a basis for
> Culture Lab's contribution to the consortium
> deliverables; (iii) helping to co-ordinate and
> document selected joint Culture Lab/NIASSH research
> programmes; and (iv) actively pursuing your own
> research agendas in appropriate areas . Applications
> are sought from candidates with practical and
> theoretical experience in new kinds of live
> performance and/ or new storytelling environments
> using interactive technologies. The post is based in
> Culture Lab and is tenable for approximately
> two-and-a-half years.
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> Informal enquiries should in the first instance be
> made to Sarah Barber (s.g.m.barber@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:s.g.m.barber@xxxxxxxxx> ), or 0191 222 5064.
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> To apply, please submit a written
> application,Employment Record  Form, full CV,
> together with the names and addresses of two
> referees to Sarah Barber, Culture Lab and NIASSH,
> University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Architecture
> Building, NE1 7RU
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> Closing date:  3rd February, 2006 
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> Interviews to take place week commencing 13
> February, 2006
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> Job reference:
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> The Post
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> The position is intended to support (i) Culture
> Lab's contribution to a Sixth Framework project on
> Interactive Storytelling for Creative People, run by
> a consortium of European universities and companies
> whose research is focussed on creative uses of
> information and communications technologies, (ii)
> Culture Lab and NIASSH's establishment of joint
> research activities in the area of creative
> practice. In the context of a four-year integrated
> project launched in September 2004, the INSCAPE
> consortium is developing new formal models of
> narrative skills, structures and patterns, new
> concepts for interactive storytelling addressing
> multiple "viewers", and innovative multimodal
> interfaces for creating interactive stories. To
> complement consortium inputs which emphasise cinema,
> television, animation and cartoon media as new
> vehicles for interactive storytelling, Culture Lab
> at Newcastle University will focus on the
> development of interactive narrative strategies in
> the live performance context. In the context of
> Culture Lab and NIASSH joint developments,
> interdisciplinary exchanges focussed on the area of
> creative practice will be implemented as a series of
> events including seminars, conference/ performances,
> exhibitions and workshops.
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> The post has four primary roles as follows:
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> i.                    Coordinating Culture Lab
> storytelling / live performance input to the INSCAPE
> project, including practical workshops with
> potential participation from Newcastle University's
> School of English Literature, Language and
> Linguistics (Creative Writing, Drama and
> Performance), School of Arts and Cultures (Music,
> Fine Arts), School of Electrical, Electronic and
> Computer Engineering (Interface and Programme
> Development), and Institute of Informatics
> (Conversational Agents, Human-Computer Interaction).
> Workshops will alternate between "in-house"
> experimentation and sessions targeting broader
> publics, presented as  dissemination opportunities
> with a strong focus on media impact.
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> ii.                  Generating and collating
> documentation on Culture Lab INSCAPE events: 
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> a.      preparatory proposals, calls for
> participation, programme outlines laying down
> methodology and objectives;
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> b.      written and audiovisual traces of
> storytelling performance workshop experiments to
> build a corpus to be fed into Culture Lab
> deliverables for the INSCAPE Consortium.
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> iii         Contributing to the organisation and
> documentation of joing Culture Lab/NIASSH research
> programmes which extend the concerns of the INSCAPE
> project in relation to a range of interdisciplinary
> agendas. In the first instance, you will be required
> to work on the 'Critical Exchanges: Creativity,
> Research, Scholarship' programme.
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> iv         Undertaking and disseminating your own
> research in a cognate area.
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> Beyond Newcastle University counterparts, the post
> will require liaising with INSCAPE's European
> partners, many of whom will attend Newcastle events.
> Reciprocally, Culture Lab's INSCAPE research
> assistant will be required to attend meetings and
> workshops held by European partner organisations. 
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> Tasks will be supervised by Dr Sally Jane Norman,
> Director of Culture Lab Newcastle and responsible
> for the University's contribution to INSCAPE, and by
> Professor Kate Chedgzoy, director of NIASSH. 
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Marlon Barrios Solano
embodied interactive design/art/dance improvisation/cognition
New York City
http://www.unstablelandscape.org
cell phone in USA: 614-4462175
Skypein: country code+1(916) 226-9062 
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