Location: Providence, RI
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: TBD
Compensation: $54,500–$84,700
Job Summary
The Movement Lab at Rhode Island School of Design is actively seeking two research affiliates for 10-month term appointments in the Movement Lab Fellowship commencing in Fall 2025. The Movement Lab Fellowship program supports postgraduate work that explores movement at the intersection of language, identity, cultures, ecosystems, and/or peoples. Incumbents in the Movement Lab Fellowship will spend this time focused on their independent creative work/research projects. The art and study of movement is central to many disciplines and work may include, but not be limited to, the expanded fields of animation, filmmaking, immersive arts, performance, game arts, dance, puppetry, robotics, and kinetic sculpture. Bringing their individual perspectives to the Film/Animation/Video department, they will support ongoing efforts to decolonize curricula and advance the mission of the Movement Lab as a collaborative cross-disciplinary center for the creative study of movement.
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About the Movement Lab:
The Movement Lab supports investigation of the social, cultural, ecological, and expressive potential of movement to help gain knowledge of the world in which we live. Research in the lab is supported through: a range of technologies dedicated to movement analysis and experimentation; FAV courses and electives; workshops, symposia and visiting artist series; and a growing archive of film, animation, recorded performances, and movement references.
About RISD’s Film/Animation/Video department:
RISD’s Film/Animation/Video department serves over 150 majors, and many non-majors in adjacent disciplines. FAV students explore the art of the moving image while learning to master the tools needed to articulate a creative vision, using film, animation, installations, interactive media or a combination. FAV professors support the investigation of the technical, aesthetic and conceptual questions central to creating strong content with a unique voice.
