Assistant/associate Professor in 2d + Experimental

**Job Title**
- Assistant/Associate Professor in 2D + Experimental Animation**Rank**
- Assistant Professor**Tenure Information**
- Tenure Track**Job Summary**
- **Assistant or Associate Professor **position in
- **2D + Experimental Animation **within the Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media (DDM). Situated on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səḻ ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil‐Waututh) territories in Vancouver, Canada, Emily Carr University is a world‐renowned learning and research community dedicated to the education of artists and designers.
- **SUMMARY**
**OF**
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- The Bachelor of Media Arts in 2D and Experimental Animation, situated in the Ian Gillespie Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media (DDM), prepares students to excel as versatile animation creators, storytellers, and filmmakers. The program provides an aesthetic, technical, conceptual, theoretical and historical understanding of animation. Students are encouraged to develop their artistic voice within a context of artistic expression, formal exploration, and technical experimentation towards creative journeys and careers. This includes various types of production in 2D animation, animation design and story development, character animation, storyboarding, game production, visual effects, motion graphics, AR/VR/XR technologies, in the context of independent filmmaking, entrepreneurship or the animation industry. All majors in the DDM Faculty share values and goals in areas of collaboration, sustainability, interdisciplinarity, critical engagement with technology, new research methods, new approaches to design and media, and the making of imaginative and provocative work.-
- Teaching core and elective studio courses in the Animation curriculum.
- Teaching and mentoring students across multiple year levels at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.
- Active participation in curriculum and program development and planning.
- Providing service to the Faculty and university-wide governance systems by participation in various committees and working groups, as well as being an active and engaged member of the University community.
- An active research, scholarly, and/or creative practice.

**Required Qualifications**

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- terminal degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience;
- industry experience in 2D and/or Experimental Animation production is preferred;
- Supervisory/mentoring experience and demonstrated leadership in collaborative work;
- Demonstrated commitment to advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in an institutional setting.
- Areas of focus may include:

- Character animation, design, layout, storyboarding, drawn and digital puppet animation
- Experimental practices, stop motion, motion graphics, extended realities grounded in animation practices.

**Preferred Qualifications**

**About Emily Carr**
- Emily Carr University of Art + Design, established in 1925, is a world leader in education and research. Encouraging experimentation at the intersection of art, design, media and technology, our teaching and learning community merges studio practice, research creation, and critical scholarship in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment. Alumni and faculty are internationally recognized as award‐winning creators and thought leaders who have significant impact in 21st‐century cultural production and cultural sustainability. We engage students, industry, and society to iterate and explore, and think differently about creativity and how it shapes our world.- Located in beautiful and culturally diverse Vancouver, British Columbia, Emily Carr attracts more than 1800 students from 60 countries to our undergraduate and graduate programs. The Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media is one of four university faculties (alongside Audain Faculty of Art, Faculty of Culture + Community, and Jake Kerr Faculty of Graduate Studies) which, together with the Aboriginal Gathering Place, Library + Learning Commons, Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship, Libby Leshgold Gallery, READ Books, and the research centres and workshops in our new state‐of‐the‐art, custom‐built campus, offer vibrant conditions for the development of practice-based and practice‐led research and education.**Additional Information**

**APPLICATION**
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**PROCEDURES**
- a cover letter;
- a current curriculum vitae;
- a statement of pedagogy and up to 3 samples of syllabi, assignments, and evidence of teaching effectiveness; or evidence of work and mentorship in a lead/supervisorial role.
- a statement of research;
- supporting materials including an online portfolio of recent work; and
- the names and contact information of three referees.

**Electronic submissions are welcome at**:

- Emily Carr University is designated by the University Act of BC as a Special Purpose Teaching University, with a focus on a practice-based pedagogy in art and d