Three fixed-term, three-year PhD positions in artistic research

Three fixed-term, three-year PhD positions in artistic research

ArbeidsgiverNTNU - Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitetStedInnherredsveien 7, Inngang A, 7491 Trondheim, Trondheim

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The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art

is a dynamic, international, intensely collaborative, and cross-disciplinary research environment that aims to provide next-generation artists, researchers, and practitioners with the range of experience, skills, creative confidence, and theoretical insight to work across sectors.

Trondheim Academy of Fine Art enables and promotes an understanding of artistic research that is equivalent to scientific research and, at the same time, fully embedded in a University of Science and Technology. This unique constellation allows for novel alliances across academic fields to respond to the complexities of societal challenges and contribute to NTNU’s vision to create “Knowledge for a better world”.

Seven academic staff members, complemented with visiting professors, guest teachers, and researchers are contributing to the strong reputation of the department in artistic research on Norwegian, Scandinavian, and European level. Individual fellows and their supervisors, post-doctoral researchers, and professors are shaping and reshaping an artistic research environment focused on visual arts while also being genuinely open to artistic research emerging in the fields of design, architecture, film, and new media.

About the job

Trondheim Academy of Fine Art seeks applicants with the verve to explore and to articulate arts and artists’ new potentials in today’s society. These positions require a high level of commitment to contributing to an artistic research environment that wish to revisit, revaluate, and reinvent key aspects of the relationships between art, technology, and society.

A. Two positions will be part of the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) funded project “Climate Rights"

The “Climate Rights : Designing Visual Evidence for Climate Cases” project draws upon artistic research, architecture, environmental design, geospatial science, film-making and international law to critically interrogate the emerging spaces of rights-based climate cases and ecocide law. The project is interested in better understanding and intervening into how visual-spatial research can transform the way environmental damage and climate harm is presented towards opening new imaginaries for climate rights in Norway and internationally.

The two PhD’s will be part of the Climate Rights project team in developing artistic and practice-based research with strong social impact. Using geospatial visualizations and modelling combined with participatory methods, you will address evidentiary gaps in climate cases as a productive space for methodological experimentation and space for critical discourse by interrogating questions around responsibility, causality, and legibility.

B. One position will be part of Trondheim Academy of Fine Art’s PhD program in Artistic Research

The broad context for this position is NTNU’s focus on the Ocean as a long-standing strategic research area. It will build upon the experiences of Trondheim Academy of Fine Art’s Art and Ocean pilot project in developing artistic and practice-led research projects that address the aesthetic, political and methodological challenges of representing the deep ocean.

Your immediate leader is Head of Department.

Duties of the position

Successful applicants will develop artistic research projects that operate within one or across more than one of the following contexts and frameworks :

• Developing methodologies for gathering and presenting visual evidence using spatial, scientific, data-driven, and participatory approaches with a focus on environmental destruction and climate change
• Documenting and documentary research on how evidence is represented and contested in the emerging spaces of climate litigation
• Undertaking in-depth research on case studies in legal processes in collaboration with the project’s academic and non-academic partner institutions, other civil society organizations and cultural institutions
• Developing design-driven approaches on using environmental data to visualize the deep ocean and the seabed in the context of emerging extractive projects
• Critical approaches to histories, and theories of environmental justice in the context of oceans as a frontier, ecosystem, polity, and a site of struggle and water rights

We seek applicants from visual arts, architecture, design and other related fields with a strong interest in environmental, spatial and interdisciplinary research. These may include, but are not limited to extractivism and green colonialism, architectural and media forensics, data-driven computational approaches to design, climate attribution, environment, human and more-than-human rights and the law, emerging digital technologies, visual culture and ecology, community work, and critical approaches to histories, and theories of environmental and climate justice.

Required selection criteria

The appointment is to be made in accordance with and

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Salary and conditions

As a PhD candidate (code 1017) you are normally paid from gross NOK 532 200 per annum before tax, depending on qualifications and seniority. From the salary, 2% is deducted as a contribution to the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund.

The period of employment is 3 years.

Appointment to a PhD position requires that you are admitted to the within three months of employment, and that you participate in an organized PhD programme during the employment period.

The engagement is to be made in accordance with the regulations in force concerning , and the acts relating to Control of the Export of Strategic Goods, Services and Technology. Candidates who by assessment of the application and attachment are seen to conflict with the criteria in the latter law will be prohibited from recruitment to NTNU. After the appointment you must assume that there may be changes in the area of work.

It is a prerequisite you can be present at and accessible to the institution daily.

About the application

The application and supporting documentation to be used as the basis for the assessment must be in English.

Publications and other scientific work must be attached to the application. Please note that your application will be considered based solely on information submitted by the application deadline. You must therefore ensure that your application clearly demonstrates how your skills and experience fulfil the criteria specified above.

The application must include :

If all, or parts, of your education has been taken abroad, we also ask you to attach documentation of the scope and quality of your entire education, both bachelor's and master's education, in addition to other higher education. Description of the documentation required can be found . If you already have a statement from NOKUT, please attach this as well.

We will take joint work into account. If it is difficult to identify your efforts in the joint work, you must enclose a short description of your participation.

In the evaluation of which candidate is best qualified, emphasis will be placed on education, experience and personal and interpersonal qualities. Motivation, ambitions, and potential will also count in the assessment of the candidates.

NTNU is committed to following evaluation criteria for research quality according to

General information

NTNU believes that inclusion and diversity is our strength. We want to recruit people with different competencies, educational backgrounds, life experiences and perspectives to contribute to solving our social responsibilities within education and research. We will facilitate for our employees’ needs.

NTNU is working actively to increase the number of women employed in scientific positions and has a number of resources to (tas bort hvis ikke aktuelt)

C ity of Trondheim is a modern European city with a rich cultural scene. Trondheim is the innovation capital of Norway with a population of 200,000. The Norwegian welfare state, including healthcare, schools, kindergartens and overall equality, is probably the best of its kind in the world. Professional subsidized day-care for children is easily available. Furthermore, Trondheim offers great opportunities for education (including international schools) and possibilities to enjoy nature, culture and family life and has low crime rates and clean air quality.

As an employee at NTNU, you must at all times adhere to the changes that the development in the subject entails and the organizational changes that are adopted.

A public list of applicants with name, age, job title and municipality of residence is prepared after the application deadline. If you want to reserve yourself from entry on the public applicant list, this must be justified. Assessment will be made in accordance with. You will be notified if the reservation is not accepted.

For more information about the position please contact : Professor Jacob Jessen, e- mail : . If you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact HR advisor Natalia Swahn, e-mail : .

If you think this looks interesting and in line with your qualifications, please submit your application electronically via jobbnorge.no with your CV, diplomas and certificates attached. Applications submitted elsewhere will not be considered. Upon request, you must be able to obtain certified copies of your documentation.

Application deadline : 12.11.2023

Om arbeidsgiveren

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Trondheim Academy of Fine Art

is known for its open and experimental approach, both in its disciplines and in its educational practice. As academy of fine art that is attached to the Norways larges university, we have exceptional resources and opportunities for cooperation with disciplines in technology, architecture and the humanities. We also have close ties with international art environments and a conscious commitment to the development of contemporary art. The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art is one of four departments in the .

Om stillingen

Stillingstittel : Call for PhD Applications Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (KiT)Antall stillinger : 3AnsettelsesformEngasjementHeltid / deltidHeltidSektorOffentlig