[spectre] Fwd: The first Art-Science residency at Wits University - a postdoc in the Structured Light Lab

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Datum: 	Wed, 23 Mar 2022 10:14:01 +0200
Von: 	Christo Doherty <dohertyc at gmail.com>
An: 	Andreas Broeckmann <ab at mikro.in-berlin.de>


CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN ART-SCIENCE

Long duration residency for an artist to work as part of a leading 
science lab at the University of the Witwatersrand

Deadline: 31 May 2022


The Wits Innovation Centre hereby invites applications for this 
prestigious fellowship, which will advance interdisciplinary research 
innovation at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, one 
of the leading research universities in Africa.

Applications can hereby be made for a Postdoctoral Fellowship of ONE 
YEAR’S duration, renewableon an annual basis up to three years. The 
value of the Fellowship package is R321 560 per annum, which includes 
relocation costs, medical aid, and research expenses.

We encourage applications by practicing artists with a PhD in any 
creative discipline who wish to engage in high level long term 
interdisciplinary artistic research in the Structured Light Laboratory 
in the Wits Department of Physics.


Background on the Wits Structured Light Laboratory

We are in the ‘century of the photon’, with the hope of harnessing light 
for a brighter future. To fully exploit light, it needs to be sculptured 
and moulded for purpose, tailored much like cloth, weaving an intricate 
pattern into the fabric of light itself: structured light. The team 
exercise this control digitally with common projector technology, 
customising bright light and quantum light in both space and time. The 
group uses these new forms of structured light for all-digital 
light-based processes, non-invasive nanoscale optical metrology, 
lab-on-a-chip chemistry for detecting water pollutants, designing our 
future communication networks for fast and quantum-enabled security, and 
imaging complex (living) structures with a quantum microscope. The 
vision is structured light as an enabling tool, the vehicle by which we 
tour the scientific landscape.

More details can be found at: http://www.structured-light.org , by 
emailing the director, Prof. Andrew Forbes on andrew.forbes at wits.ac.za 
or by watching some of these videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4fDhGPvIw0&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqNcTTGJNlM

https://www.studyinternational.com/news/wits-university-makes-light-work/

Applications close on 31 May 2022 at 12:00


Candidates who would like to be considered for this fellowship should 
submit their CV and an academic transcript, together with a project 
proposal, of not more than two typed/printed A4 pages, to Prof Christo 
Dohertyatchristo.doherty at wits.ac.za , by the deadline listed above.

Your CV should provide information on the following;

Your fields of artistic practice/research • Public performances, 
exhibitions or other artistic outputs • Prizes won • Peer reviewed 
publications, exhibitions, performances • Leadership positions held • 
Languages spoken • Citizenship.

Your project proposal should address the following:

1. Briefly describe your concept and the background to your idea.
Please mention why you wish to work in the Structured Light Lab and what 
you hope to gain from this experience. (Approximately 750 words)

2. Describe how this proposal is an extension of any previous work, your 
background or research, and how this opportunity might be of value to 
your art work in the future.(Approximately 300 words)

3. Describe your interest in potential to collaborate with scientists 
(Approximately 200 words)

4. Briefly describe how your proposed research project will advance 
artistic research and innovation in South Africa/Africa. (Approximately 
200 words)

If you need further information on the fellowship, please contact Prof 
Christo Doherty at christo.doherty at wits.ac.za