POSITION OPENING: Full-Time Curator for Time-Based Visual Arts

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has an opening in the curatorial team for a curator with expertise in the area of time-based visual arts. We are looking for a curator with experience at the intersection of contemporary art and contemporary technology; who can reflect on the relationship of tools, aesthetics, and artistic goals; who enjoys exploration and collaboration; who sees an audience as essential to the arts; who seeks the challenge to contribute to a contemporary art program at the oldest engineering school in the US; and who is driven by what the arts can offer beyond streamlined entertainment.

Applicants must possess curatorial and production experience
on the national level, with international experience preferred.
Qualified candidates will have a solid background in the
time-based visual arts and ability to contextualize a project
within art history.
Further info: http://ow.ly/c1XW8

EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. EMPAC operates nationally and internationally, attracting creative individuals from around the world and sending new artworks and innovative ideas onto the global stage.
EMPAC’s building is a showcase work of architecture and a unique technological facility that boasts unrivaled presentation and production capabilities for art and science spanning the physical and virtual worlds and the spaces in between.

EMPAC
curtis r. priem experimental media
and performing arts center
rensselaer polytechnic institute
troy, ny 12180
T. 518.276.3921
http://empac.rpi.edu/