• Art and Design Education
• Fashion Design
• Film/Video and Photography

All three departments are located on Pratt’s historic 25-acre campus in the culturally rich and diverse neighborhood of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. We seek exceptional applicants who will bring the experience necessary to assume the academic and administrative leadership of their respective departments, and the vision to build for the future. These administrative appointments carry a 12-month per year workload and a three-year contract that may be renewed.

Pratt provides one of the most comprehensive professional art and design educations available, supported by a distinguished faculty and exceptional technical and studio resources. Gifted students from across the United States and around the world collaborate and learn at Pratt, weaving creative energy and opportunity into an unmatched educational experience.

The faculty is composed of professional artists, designers, critics, historians, and practitioners, whose works, projects, and publications are recognized and respected around the world and whose ranks include numerous recipients of prestigious awards such as the Tiffany, Fulbright, and Guggenheim fellowships.
Two major objectives guide every department. The first is an emphasis on professional skills development. The school’s students gain the techniques, skills, methodology, and vocabulary required for success as productive artists, designers, and scholars.

The second objective—imperative so that professional expertise is not simply technical training—is development of the critical judgment and historical perspective needed to become a problem solver. Art and design history, melded with studies in the liberal arts and sciences, provide the context for stimulating intellectual and creative inquiry.

In addition to the outstanding curricula and faculty, the School of Art and Design offers a diverse range of degree offerings. Art and design programs are also enriched by Pratt’s distinguished professional programs in architecture and in information and library science, all within the broader cultural campus of New York City.

RESPONSIBILITIES of the chair will include oversight of budget and course scheduling; curriculum development, program reviews, and assessment; recruitment of faculty and students; participation in fundraising and development; and establishment of linkages with relevant professional organizations and leading practitioners.

QUALIFICATIONS:
Art and Design Education
We require an earned doctorate in a related field (ABD considered); at least five years of administrative management experience, preferably in higher education; a minimum of five years of college level teaching experience; and recognized standing in the field. Applicants must have proven achievement in publications and/or scholarship.

Fashion Design
We require a terminal degree in fashion design or its equivalent in a related field; at least five years of administrative management experience, preferably in higher education; a minimum of five years of college level teaching experience with the rank of associate or full professor; and recognized leadership in the field. Achievement in publications and/or scholarship is a plus.
Film/Video
Applicants must have proven professional achievement in the discipline of film/video. A record of film broadcasts and/or exhibitions is desirable; a record of publications and/or scholarship is a plus. We require a terminal degree or its equivalent in film, video or a related field; at least five years of administrative management experience, preferably in higher education; a minimum of five years of college level teaching experience with the rank of associate or full professor; and recognized standing in the field.

SALARY: Commensurate with experience and qualifications.

TO APPLY: Review of applications will continue until position is filled. Please submit your cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three professional references electronically to:

Chair Search Committee: Art and Design Education
EDChair@pratt.edu – Use subject line A&D Art & Design Education Chair
Chair Search Committee: Fashion Design
FDchair@pratt.edu – Use subject line: A&D Fashion Design Chair
Chair Search Committee: Film/Video
FVChair@pratt.edu – Use subject line A&D Film/Video Chair

PRATT INSTITUTE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND RECOGNIZES AND VALUES THE BENEFITS OF A DIVERSE WORKFORCE.

http://www.pratt.edu

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and has been sub-divided into four evenings with different themes.

On Saturday evening, This Brunner, the Zurich film connaisseur, will present “Women Without Men” (2009) by Shirin Neshat which won the Golden Lion of the 2009 Venice Filmfestival. The evening will be followed by a Q&A with Shirin Neshat, moderated by the Swiss filmmaker Samir.

(Image: Art Basel 41)

ART BASEL ~ 41 ART FILMS ~ PROGRAM DETAILS

Tuesday, June 1

5, 10 p.m.:

And This Is How The Story Goes…

Total running time approximately 78 minutes, curated by Marc Glöde
Second screening, Wednesday, June 16, 10 a.m.
Telling stories – weird, smart, abstract, straightforward, complicated… it is the neverending fascination for the filmic narrative that connects this diverse corpus of films. In the range of different formats these works unfold the question “What is narration?”
Michaela Meise “Lettre to the Eltern” 2010 / 18’35" (Johann König)
Rä di Martino “August 2008” 2009 / 5′ (Monitor)
Guy Ben-Ner “If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate” 2009 / 16’30" (Konrad Fischer Galerie)
Mario Pfeifer “Untitled (Two Guys)” 2008 / 7’30" (Koch Oberhuber Wolff)
Korpys/Löffler “Stadt von Morgen” 2007 / 16’30" (Meyer Riegger)
Sean Snyder “Casio, Seiko, Sheraton, Toyota, Mars” 2004/2005 / 13’09" (Galerie Neu)
Sean Snyder “Afghanistan” 2009 / 2’10" (Galerie Neu)

Wednesday, June 16, 10 p.m.:

 Reference Points

Total running time approximately 71 minutes, curated by Marc Glöde
Second screening, Thursday, June 17, 10 a.m.
Relating to different dynamics of the world is one of the crucial interests in new film positions. This program brings together some of the most remarkable works that ask questions about the relation to the medium, about iconic figures, about historical aspects or just about the self.
Clemens von Wedemeyer “Found Footage (the Fourth Wall Project)” 2009 / 31′ (Galerie Jocelyn Wolff)
Ryan Gander “Basquiat” 2008 / 5’30" (gb agency)
Laurent Grasso “Satellite” 2006 / 9’50" (Sean Kelly Gallery)
Jeanne Faust “Reconstructing Damon Albarn in Kinshasa” 2010 / 9′ (Meyer Riegger)
Alexandra Leykauf “uit de bibliotheek van Wolfgang Frommelt” 2009 / 10’40" (Sassa Trülzsch)
Isabell Heimerdinger “Good Friends” 2010 / 4’30" (Mehdi Chouakri)

Thursday, June 17, 10 p.m.:

Focus Japan

Total running time approximately 61 minutes, curated by Marc Glöde in cooperation with Taka Ishii Gallery and Galerie Daniel Buchholz
Second screening, Friday, June 18, 10 a.m.
This program introduces the historical Japanese film avant-garde movement of Jikken Kobo/Experimental Workshop (1951–1958). The program subsequently presents contemporary films by both Japanese and European artists in an attempt to consider the relationship and mutual influence of a lesser-known Japanese post-war aesthetic on a present generation of artists.
Katsuhiro Yamaguchi / Toshio Matsumoto “The Silver Wheel” 1955 / 11’57"
(National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokio)
Kiyoji Otsuji “Kinecalligraph” 1955/86 / 4’26" (Taka Ishii Gallery)
Takashi Ishida “Wall of the Sean” 2007 / 12′ (Taka Ishii Gallery)
Cerith Wyn Evans “Still Life with Phrenology Head” 1979 / 14′
(Taka Ishii Gallery and Galerie Daniel Buchholz)
Ei Arakawa “Peaceboat Revisiting MRTA” 2009 / 3’26" (Taka Ishii Gallery)
Florian Pumhösl “EI335721443JP” 2010 / 15’10" (Galerie Daniel Buchholz)
The screening is followed by a Q&A with Japanese art critic Minoru Shimizu and Art Film curator Marc Glöde.
Friday, June 18, 10 p.m.: Dark, Blurred And Diffused
Total running time approximately 73 minutes, curated by Marc Glöde
Second screening, Saturday, June 19, 10 a.m.
Dark spaces and diffused atmospheres shape the works that this program brings together. From historical works to new approaches, these films lead us into spaces that range from the uncanny and the irritating to the abstract and the archival.
Gerhard Richter “Volker Bradke” 1966 / 14’32" (Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden)
Cerith Wyn Evans “I’ve been fooled by love” 2009 / 8’21" (Galerie Neu)
Tobias Zielony “Big Sexyland” 2008 / 3’10" (Koch Oberhuber Wolff)
Tobias Zielony “The Deboard” 2008 / 7’23" (Koch Oberhuber Wolff)
Gabriele Zimmermann and Helmut Nothelfer “US-Waffenschau in Berlin-West, Flughafen Tempelhof” 1972 / 7’18" (Galerie Thomas Zander)
Michael Wutz “Tales, Lies and Exaggerations” 2010 / 9′ (Aurel Scheibler)
Amy Granat “Untitled (Sabotage)” 2007 / 8’56" (Galerie Eva Presenhuber)
Hans Op de Beek “Extensions” 2009 / 10’58" (Galerie Krinzinger)
Joachim Koester “To navigate, in a genuine way, in the unknown necessitates an attitude of daring, but not one of recklessness (movements generated from the Magical Passes of Carlos Castaneda)” 2009 / 3’30" (Jan Mot)

ART FILMS, ART BASEL HIGHLIGHT

Saturday, June 19, 8 p.m.:

Women Without Men

Video clip (not suitable for children)

Running time 99 minutes, curated by This Brunner
Second screening, Sunday, June 20, 10 a.m.

Against the tumultuous backdrop of Iran’s 1953 CIA-backed coup d’état, the destinies of four women converge in a beautiful orchard, where they find independence, solace and companionship.

Acclaimed video artist Shirin Neshat makes her directorial debut with this incisive and sumptuously filmed reflection on the pivotal moment in history that directly led to the Islamic revolution and the Iran we know today.

Shirin Neshat “Women Without Men” 2009 / 99′ (Coproduction Office)
The screening is followed by a Q&A with Shirin Neshat, moderated by the Swiss filmmaker Samir.

Part allegory, part historical drama, Women Without Men chronicles the lives of five women living in Tehran during the British- and American-backed coup of the democratically elected government in 1953. Among them are Munis, a woman struggling against the restrictions of her fundamentalist brother; Farrokhlaqa, an upper-class wife frustrated with her passionless marriage to a general; Zarin, a young sex trade worker who becomes overwhelmed by her conditions; Mahdokht, who is struggling with the loss of her virginity; and Faezeh, a women obsessed with marrying her friend Munis’ brother. Though the women’s daily lives are depicted with a grainy realism, the film eventually gives way to saturated colours and fantastical panoramas as each of the protagonists finds her way to an enchanted garden without men.

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Oh … ‘So what? Fame has become a farce. In the future every modern person will be famous for 15 minutes. If everyone can be famous, what’s the point of being famous?’ Andy would have brought to this discussion.

What is Andy really saying?

Go see that for yourself. One of the best exhibits in the world going on at present on Andy Warhol’s work and artistic philosophy is on during this XMAS season. It’s the ‘ANDY WARHOL: OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS’ exhibit held in The Hayward, Southbank Centre, London, UK. Ending 18 January 2009.

Cow, c.1966 (Yellow and P… Andy Warhol

Now, 40 years after Warhol’s first high drama show in Europe of his infamous shooting by Valerie Solanas, The Hayward holds another major exhibition, ‘Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms’, featuring a fresh perspective to his work.

The gallery really presents a new take on Warhol’s work. Using the moving image as its starting point to explore Warhol’s core concerns – voyeurism, celebrity, the mundane, and the blurring of distinctions between high and low culture, the exhibition illustrates his prophetic insight into today’s media-obsessed society.

The Hayward has done a good job in transforming the gallery into a giant multi-media installation. This presentation allows visitors to be immersed in Warhol’s way of thinking, living and working. Paintings and prints of famous icons including Marilyn Monroe and Campbell’s soup tins, are shown alongside video, TV programmes, films, Polaroid photos, delicate drawings, album covers and wallpaper patterns. It vividly reflects Warhol’s egalitarian maxim, ‘all is pretty’; with all media presented on the same level.

Eva Meyer-Hermann, Curator, says “Andy Warhol once wondered about how it would be if one mirror would reflect another. He declared that everything which we want to know can be seen on the surfaces of him and his works. I thought I had to look behind these surfaces, but realised that what we are looking for is not behind but in front of them. Warhol’s surfaces reflect the world; his works are about you and me.”

Fifteen Minutes Andy Warhol

The New Media Focus

“Before I was shot I always suspected I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot, and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.’ ~ Andy Warhol, 1968

Andy Warhol was obsessed with film and television and the exhibition explores the relationship between the moving image and the still image in his work. It brings together films, screen tests, videos, and TV programmes, which combined with extraordinary archive material, seminal paintings and installations, illuminates his creative process, sheds new light on his work and explores his genius for discerning the way pop culture penetrates our lives.

Exhibition Sections

The three exhibit sections are Filmscape, TV-Scape and Cosmos: ‘Filmscape’ a cinematic landscape showing 19 films; ‘TV-Scape’ showing simultaneously all 42 episodes from the three TV series Warhol created between 1979 and 1987; and ‘Cosmos’ providing insight into Warhol’s character and work, with paintings, drawings, photographs, audio listening booths, a Brillo Box, album covers, Interview magazines, artists books and Time Capsule 92.

Marilyn, c.1967 (On Blue Ground) Andy Warhol

Highlights of this Andy Warhol Exhibit

Make sure you see some of the best parts of this show, including:

• Iconic ‘Pop Art’ works including screen prints of Marilyn Monroe, Campbell Soup Tins, Flowers and Electric Chairs
• 19 of Warhol’s films, including Sleep (1963), Empire (1964), Poor Little Rich Girl (1965), and Chelsea Girls (1966) presented together simultaneously in a unique installation. A further eight films will be shown in a separate screening room.
• Screen tests of artists, writers and musicians such as Allen Ginsberg, Marcel Duchamp, John Cale and Salvador Dali.
• Factory Diaries – video diaries showing the inner workings of the Factory – capturing regulars and celebrities such as David Bowie and Liza Minnelli, as well as Warhol’s creative process.
• All 42 episodes from his 1980s cable TV serials, ‘Fashion’; ‘Andy Warhol’s TV’; and ‘Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes’; in which he appeared with friends such as Debbie Harry and Jerry Hall. These have never been shown together before and will be screened synchronously in a unique installation.
• The entire contents of Time Capsule 92 featuring a treasure-trove of ephemera collected by Warhol, including letters, invitations, receipts, newspaper cuttings and photographs of The Beatles, Dennis Hopper and Jackie Kennedy.
• A room filled with Warhol’s helium inflated pillow-shaped ‘Silver Clouds’.

This exhibition has been organized by Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Moderna Museet Stockholm in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Ticket info: southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts

Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms ~ The Book

Can’t make it to London in this busy holiday season? No worries, get the book! It’s really good.

The evolution of self, as interpreted by one’s visual and psychological reflection and through the lens of society and various forms of media is a concept with which Warhol endeavored to illustrate through a variety of artistic modes of expression.

Like the show, the book is divided into three sections, and I’d say, even get the book if you go to the show, as it provides lots of insights and behind the scene information. It outlines for us once again the impact that Warhol had on art, music, photography, and pop culture.

Whether you are purchasing this book to add to your collection, or as home study guide following your visit to the ‘Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms’ art exhibition, you will find that this book offers a broad survey of Warhol’s work. It offers satisfying viewing material for veteran Warhol fans and novices lookers alike.

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Black/white, silent film.