02/11/2004
UU launch Interface recruitment drive
The University of Ulster has launched a major recruitment drive for a new initiative which uses radical new approaches in art and design as part of a process for healing community tensions.
Newspapers advertisements will appear this week across the UK and Ireland for 14 positions at Interface - the Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design - which is based at the School of Art and Design, housed at the University's Belfast campus.
The centre, which has attracted £9 million funding, is a key element in a multi-million pound redevelopment and upgrade programme which is under way at the Belfast campus.
The recently-appointed Director of Interface is Derry-born Professor Declan McGonagle, internationally known as an innovative curator and festival director and acclaimed for his development of high quality visual arts policies.
He said: "Interface has unique characteristics of an international nature. It can make a contribution to a process that is already under way in Northern Ireland - the creation of new civil society.
"We will be engaged in doing research into new ways of working, opening up new avenues of how to link artwork, fine art, design and modern technology and connecting them at many different levels to the community, industry and the economy."
The recruitment campaign - one of the university’s biggest ever - is for four lecturers and two research fellows in fine art and in textile art; and four research associates, and four assistant associates, in those sectors. Other advertisements will follow for technical, archive and administrative posts.
(MB/GMCG)
Newspapers advertisements will appear this week across the UK and Ireland for 14 positions at Interface - the Centre for Research in Art, Technologies and Design - which is based at the School of Art and Design, housed at the University's Belfast campus.
The centre, which has attracted £9 million funding, is a key element in a multi-million pound redevelopment and upgrade programme which is under way at the Belfast campus.
The recently-appointed Director of Interface is Derry-born Professor Declan McGonagle, internationally known as an innovative curator and festival director and acclaimed for his development of high quality visual arts policies.
He said: "Interface has unique characteristics of an international nature. It can make a contribution to a process that is already under way in Northern Ireland - the creation of new civil society.
"We will be engaged in doing research into new ways of working, opening up new avenues of how to link artwork, fine art, design and modern technology and connecting them at many different levels to the community, industry and the economy."
The recruitment campaign - one of the university’s biggest ever - is for four lecturers and two research fellows in fine art and in textile art; and four research associates, and four assistant associates, in those sectors. Other advertisements will follow for technical, archive and administrative posts.
(MB/GMCG)
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