From 3d410121cb6fe957741c1580e2f97605a8b9f91e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "prompt.ac/@jeffrey" Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 10:08:48 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?deadlines:=20UCSC=20Sound=20&=20Media=20Art=20m?= =?UTF-8?q?oves=20to=20active=20=E2=80=94=20Open=20Room=20WIP=20page=20(ae?= =?UTF-8?q?sthetic.computer/ucsc-2026),=20teaching=20statement=20+=20two?= =?UTF-8?q?=20syllabi=20drafted=20in=20the=20vault;=20evals=20+=20letters?= =?UTF-8?q?=20are=20the=20critical=20path?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- .../deadlines/index.html | 13 +- system/public/ucsc-2026/index.html | 185 ++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 193 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 system/public/ucsc-2026/index.html diff --git a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html index 614ccfb7e9..ebb8c446b8 100644 --- a/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html +++ b/system/public/papers.aesthetic.computer/deadlines/index.html @@ -1652,16 +1652,19 @@ notes: 'Tenure-track; teaching undergraduate and graduate sculpture with an emphasis on contemporary studio practices. Job #JPF11274. Sent by Fia 2026-09-02 and reads as aimed at her practice rather than AC — tracked here so the date does not slip. Not an AC application.', }, { - section: 'open', + section: 'active', venue: 'UC Santa Cruz — Assistant Teaching Professor, Sound & Media Art', venueUrl: 'https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02127', - track: 'Core faculty for the online Creative Technologies major · start July 1, 2027', + track: 'Faculty post — Music Dept + core faculty of the online Creative Technologies major · JPF02127 · start July 1, 2027', deadline: '2026-10-12', deadlineExtra: 'first review 23:59 PT · final 2027-06-30', - conference: '$89,400–$116,500 (9-month) · Santa Cruz, online major', + conference: '$89,400–$116,500 (9-month) · Santa Cruz · security-of-employment track', status: 'go', - statusLabel: 'Strongest fit', - notes: 'The posting names creative coding, p5.js, Max/SuperCollider and online pedagogy. Wants two syllabi (one creative coding), student evaluations, 3–5 letters. KidLisp is the spine. Verified on UCSC Recruit. Opportunity scout, 2026-09-19 (vault grants/scout-2026-09-19/report.md).', + statusLabel: 'Drafting', + proposalUrl: 'https://aesthetic.computer/ucsc-2026', + proposalLabel: 'Open Room · WIP draft', + draftPath: 'ucsc-sound-media-art-2027/DRAFT.md', + notes: 'Jobs #1 from the Sept 19 scout — "the strongest fit on both lists." Spine: AC as an online classroom that is itself a shared runtime; supporting: notepat / Note(s)pat(ial) for the Music half, FLOSS + critical tech. Preliminary screen is on the Teaching Statement alone. Drafted 2026-09-20 (vault): cover letter, teaching statement, professional-achievement statement, two syllabus outlines (creative coding; sound). Critical path: two courses of student evaluations (none on disk — request UCLA DMA Summer 2024 + SOU 2019) and 3–5 confidential letters via UC Recruit (Reas, McCarthy, DeYoung, SOU chair) — ask the week of Sept 21. Companion: UCSC Computational Media adjunct pool JPF02068 (final 2027-04-30).', }, { section: 'open', diff --git a/system/public/ucsc-2026/index.html b/system/public/ucsc-2026/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5ffd919f86 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/public/ucsc-2026/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,185 @@ + + + + + +Open Room · Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound and Media Art · UC Santa Cruz · 2026 · WIP + + + + + + +
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UC Santa Cruz · Music · Creative Technologies · 2026 · work in progress
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An application to teach creative coding and sound in the University of California's first fully online arts major, using a classroom that is itself a shared runtime.

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Application by @jeffrey (Jeffrey Alan Scudder) · aesthetic.computer

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Drafting · cover letter, teaching statement, and two syllabi outlined 2026-09-20 · references and evaluations not yet requested
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Posting
UC Recruit JPF02127 · Music Department, Arts Division
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound and Media Art · security-of-employment track (analogous to tenure) · Academic Senate
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Core faculty of Creative Technologies — the UC system's first online undergraduate major (first cohort Fall 2024; synchronous, camera-on, lab-based)
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Monday Oct 12, 2026, 23:59 PT for full consideration · final Jun 30, 2027
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July 1, 2027 · teaching from September 2027
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$89,400 – $116,500 · academic year (nine months) · full time
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Preliminary screen is on the Teaching Statement alone
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+ Every student piece is a URL. Every class session is a room people enter from their phones. The instrument is small enough to learn in an hour and open enough to read all the way down. +
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That is the one thing this application argues. Aesthetic Computer was built to be an online classroom before the word "online" was a requirement, and the Creative Technologies major, a two-year, transfer-friendly, camera-on program at a Hispanic-Serving Institution, is the student body it was built for.

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§What they ask for, and the answerfrom the posting

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Creative coding environmentsProcessing, p5.js, openFrameworks — or "other open-source and/or custom applications." Aesthetic Computer and KidLisp are the custom application; p5.js is taught alongside so students see the same ideas twice.
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Real-time multimediaMax, Pd, SuperCollider, Orca. The AC runtime is a live-coded, hot-reloading, multiplayer real-time system; Menu Band is a native synth and MIDI instrument.
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Sound and musicnotepat (a chromatic phone keyboard), Menu Band, and Note(s)pat(ial), a spatial piece for six laptops premiered at CultureHub LA in September 2026 and proposed to ICLC 2027.
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Online pedagogyUCLA DMA's Interactivity summer section (2024) taught on AC across time zones; synchronous live coding on a shared canvas, asynchronous reading and code review.
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FLOSS and critical technologyThe whole platform is public source. Its papers press documents it. Its use of language models is bounded, logged, and written up rather than assumed.
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A just scholarly communityMaterials are free and forkable, run on the cheapest phone in the class, and the first success comes in the first hour. Student work leaves with the student, at a public address they own.
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§Teaching recordfrom the CV

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YearAppointment
2026Author in Residence, UCLA Social Software (Lauren Lee McCarthy + Casey Reas) — Keymaps as Social Software
2024UCLA Design Media Arts · Summer Section: Interactivity (taught on Aesthetic Computer)
2019Assistant Professor of Emerging Digital Practices, Southern Oregon University
2017Radical Digital Painting lecture + workshop, Yale School of Art, Graphic Design
2016Visiting Professor, UCLA Design Media Arts
2013–16Adjunct Professor, Parsons School of Design
2019–Workshops: Processing Community Day LA, 35C3 Leipzig, Bauhaus University Weimar, Sibelius Academy Helsinki; NELA Computer Club (biweekly, Los Angeles)
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Degrees: MFA, Yale School of Art (2013) · BFA, Ringling College of Art + Design (2011).

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§The two syllabioutlines · PDFs to follow

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Introduction to Creative Coding: The Room Is a URLTen weeks, no prerequisites, no purchases. Copy → change → make → show. Weeks 1–6 on Aesthetic Computer, weeks 7–8 rebuilding a piece in p5.js, week 10 a public showing on phones that aren't the author's. Signature assignment Borrow: make a third piece that needs a classmate's and yours to exist, credited in the first line.
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Instruments You Can Send: Sound, Code, and ListeningTen weeks from notepat to a networked concert. Tone, tuning, time, samples, a listening seminar, two students on one clock, six laptops in six rooms. Signature assignment A scale of your own: a playable non-equal-tempered tuning at a URL, one minute recorded, 300 words on where the ratios came from and what it is bad at.
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§Portfoliothree or more recent works

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  • Aesthetic Computer (2021–) — the platform as artwork and classroom · source
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  • Note(s)pat(ial) (2026) — six-laptop spatial performance, CultureHub LA · ICLC 2027 proposal
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  • notepat / Menu Band (2024–26) — the instrument family; keymaps edition, UCLA Social Software
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  • Ten Whistlegraphs (Feral File, 2022) and the Whistlegraph series — Kadist collection
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  • KidLisp (2023–) — the language, the reference, the card deck
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DocumentState
Teaching Statement (screening document)drafted · tuning to UCSC criteria
Cover letterdrafted · trim to one page
Statement of professional achievementdrafted
Curriculum vitaeexists · refresh for 2026
Syllabus 1 (creative coding) with assignment + assessmentoutlined
Syllabus 2 with assignment + assessmentoutlined
Portfolio PDF (≥3 works)planned
Student evaluations, two courses (required)not in hand · requesting UCLA 2024 + SOU 2019
Three to five confidential lettersnot yet asked · week of Sept 21
Lecture deck · student-work PDF (optional)possible
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