Teaching Assistant - School of Art

The School of Art is seeking one teaching assistant to work 8 hours per week across two courses in Critical Theory and Art History.

Based upon skill set and knowledge of course content, a teaching assistant would be responsible for the following tasks:

• Manage & Update Weekly Canvas Course Sites (for 2 seminars)
• Attend two classes per week: take attendance, keep track of student participation, presentations, and grades keep clear records of all of the above
• Assist with grading papers across two courses
• Occasionally preparing digital slides for course sessions
• Downloading and running PowerPoint presentations prepared by both students and instructor (sent to you before class)
• Preparing classroom before class, helping to clean-up after presentations i.e. if furniture needs to be moved or chairs organized, or whiteboard erased, etc. (physical classroom readiness)
• Participating in final classroom CRITS, as well as helping organize final presentation receptions
• Co-organize (with instructor) one on-line exhibition for the Art Writer seminar
• Attend Special Class Events (TBA)

Course descriptions for both classes are as follows:

ART WRITER: Writing as Object, Criticism, and Experiment

Professor Cash (Melissa) Ragona

Location: CFA 310

Time: 7:00-9:50 pm

ART WRITER will strive to bring together the intersecting discourses of artists’ use of writing as an object, exploring experiments by artists, poets, novelists and critics who use language and theory as invention. The idea of experiment implied here emphasizes the urgency that art writing moves beyond its own history, beyond the received understanding of its proper practices in order to propose new modes of critical reflection. The form and material force of language will be explored through the conceptual and critical work of Harryette Mullen, Fatimah Asghar, Jamaica Kincaid, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Frances Stark, Kathy Acker, Samuel Delaney, Trisha Low, Glenn Ligon, Brian Kim Stefans, Pajtim Statovci, Tan Lin, Adam Pendleton, just to name a few. International projects of Art and Language, Fluxus, the Dark Room Collective, Los Contemporáneos, as well as more recent iterations will be investigated/researched. This is a writing intensive seminar with experimentation at its core. Members will workshop their writing: revise, rethink, perform, and publish.

DeepFake, Artificial Intelligence and Beyond: Posthumanism & Contemporary Art

Professor: Cash (Melissa) Ragona

Room: CFA 303

Time: 7:00-9:20 pm

Is Post-humanism just another kind of humanism? Is the idea of difference at risk when thought is no longer attached to a body? What are the possibilities of imagining a queer phenomenology —or a transhumanism that challenges the limits placed on gendered, sexualized, racialized and so-called “able” bodies? How are our concepts of affect and authenticity being transformed by ideas of robotic & artificial intelligence? What are the various forms of subjectivities generated by machine-learning enabled media? How are constructions of “cheapfakes,” “shallowfakes,” and “deepfakes” posing ethical dilemmas in information and world-making landscapes? This seminar hopes to excavate such questions and many more produced by examining the competing and shared perspectives developed by contemporary artists and critical theorists across posthumanist, transhumanist and new materialist paradigms.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Prior experience in training, education, and instruction is preferred

Additional Information:

• The assignment is for 8 hours per week, assisting in both sections of either course
• Successful background check required  

Interested in this opportunity?  Apply today!

Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Job Function

Teaching Assistants, RA's/CA's

Position Type

Staff – Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Full Time/Part time

Part time

Pay Basis

Hourly

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