The School of Music in the College of the Arts seeks an Assistant Professor in AI and Composition to conduct research and teach courses exploring the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and musical creation within the School of Music and in collaboration with the College of the Arts “AI and the Arts” certificate program. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of creative and research activities that engage artificial intelligence in a creative practice, and experience as an instructor in computer-assisted musical composition. Research specialties may include algorithmic composition, data sonification, musical neural networks, machine learning in the arts, immersive audio, or other related fields. This hire is a part of a major, long-term initiative at the university focused on artificial intelligence (in research, research infrastructure, and curriculum), with the goal of making UF a national leader in AI.

Creatives are the original human-centered innovators and experience makers. The College of the Arts’ making disciplines are unified by both critical thinking AND critical doing; we are specialists in the relationship between what is being made, its users or audiences, and how that relationship can catalyze more just world-building. With a focus on interdisciplinary and collaboration, we seek a colleague whose work bridges AI and the Arts and is grounded in creative and/or technical practice. The successful candidate will help answer some of the questions we are asking right now and discover the questions we should be exploring next:

• How can the arts help AI function in the world in a different way?
  • How can a focus on process over product inform the future of AI?
  • How can the practice of critique inform AI or AI pedagogy?
  • How can improvisation, as a data set or theoretical frame, help shape AI’s possibilities in both capacity and applications?
  • How can the arts help destabilize techno-cultural power alignments, and help address and shape a more sustainable and inclusive human-AI interdependence?
• What role should the arts play in AI across the curriculum at the University of Florida, and beyond?

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will prepare students to access and unsettle centers of power of any ideology in a radically changing world. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for justice on local and global levels.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution dedicated to building a broadly diverse and inclusive faculty, seeking faculty of all races, ethnicities, genders, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 15^th and continue until an applicant pool is established. To ensure full consideration, all application documents must be submitted by November 15^th. Applications received after this date may be considered at the discretion of the committee and/or hiring authority.

Application Process: Applications must be submitted via the University of Florida’s online application system. Online applications must include the following: (1) a detailed letter of application that explains how you match the particular qualifications of this position and how your work and perspective will contribute to and enhance our transformative community; (2) a curriculum vitae; (3) a research statement that outlines your research experience, current projects, research trajectory, and interdisciplinary experience; (4) a teaching portfolio and/or sample syllabi from relevant courses; (5) links to 3 creative or research work samples, and (6) names and contact information of three professional references. The UF system will give you the option to upload letters of reference. We are not requiring letters of reference with initial application materials. Please ignore that option. The Search Committee may request additional materials at a later time.

Inquiries may be sent to:
Paul Richards
Chair, AI & Composition Search
Email: prichards@arts.ufl.edu

The College of the Arts does not utilize AI or other software to provide any level of applicant assessment.

The selected candidate will be required to provide an official transcript to the hiring department upon hire. A transcript will not be considered “official” if a designation of “Issued to Student” is visible. Degrees earned from an educational institution outside of the United States are required to be evaluated by a professional credentialing service provider approved by National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES).

If an accommodation due to a disability is needed to apply for this position, please call +1 (352) 392- 2477or the Florida Relay System at +1 (800) 955-8771 (TDD). Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the US. Searches are conducted in accordance with Florida's Sunshine Law.

SCHOOL OF MUSIC: Organized within the College of the Arts, the School of Music plays an important role in the academic and cultural life of the University, the College’s Creative Campus initiative and the community. The School has 40 full-time and nine adjunct faculty, serving some 200 graduate and 200 undergraduate music majors. Degree programs include B.A., B.M., M.M., D.M.A., and the Ph.D. in music education, composition, ethnomusicology, and historical musicology. Program emphases include performance, music education, theory, composition, music history and literature, ethnomusicology, conducting, and sacred music. The School of Music is also home to the UF Bands program, which includes “The Pride of the Sunshine” Gator Marching Band. School of Music facilities include the School of Music Building and Steinbrenner Band Hall, among others. The University of Florida is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music. For more information, visit www.arts.ufl.edu/music.

THE COLLEGE OF THE ARTS: The mission of the College of the Arts is to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. We achieve the university’s mission by training professionals and educating students as artists and scholars, while developing their capacities for critical study, creative practice, and provocation. The College offers baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees. Approximately 1,700 students are pursuing majors in degrees offered by the College of the Arts under the direction of 135 faculty members in its three accredited schools— the School of Art + Art History, the School of Music, and the School of Theatre + Dance, and in the Center for Arts in Medicine, the Digital Worlds Institute, and the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship. In addition, the college comprises the University Galleries, and the University level of the New World School of the Arts in Miami.