Professor of Moving Image

At the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, the Professorship of Moving Image (W2) is announced until March 20, 2025 with the aim of appointment as of September 1, 2026.

As the holder of the Chair of Moving Image in the study programme “European Media Studies” (BA / MA), you will teach the basics of working with digital video/audio in the Bachelor’s programme and the basics of media design in the Master’s programme, and you will be responsible for complex media projects in both the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes. Besides “classical” forms such as documentary and essay, new forms of experimental media design are also part of your responsibilities, in order to guide the implementation of ideas by experimenting with audiovisual techniques and processes. For this, research with and in the moving image on socio-political, technological, forensic, and ecological topics is particularly important. Your expertise in video art and installation is explicitly desired.

You can find the full announcement here.

The professorship is part of the co-operative study programme ‘European Media Studies’ is run jointly with the University of Potsdam and is based at the Institute for Arts and Media at the University of Potsdam, as well as at the Design Department at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam. The programme teaches both media theories and experimental aesthetic methods. Against this background, we expect you to have a special interest in the relationship between practice and theory based on corresponding evidence, as well as the competence and willingness to work interdisciplinary and project-oriented with students from the Bachelor and Master programmes in order to carry out experimental, aesthetically oriented research projects.

You can look forward to working with a highly collaborative team and students keen to work on projects. The international orientation of the degree programme will be continued and intensified. You are invited to actively contribute your international expertise. You will have access to modern laboratories and workshops (video workshop, video studio, animation studio, audio workshop), access to new technologies (VR, AR) and a modern digital infrastructure for teaching and research. You will find a lively campus with a refectory in a beautiful location close to the city centre. We support the balance between family and career through counselling services, childcare, holiday camps and more. The campus is easily accessible by public transport. We support your mobility with a company travel card and free parking facilities.

Appointment as a civil servant is possible if you meet the requirements.

About the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Innovative, future-orientated and practical: helping to shape the world of tomorrow is what we are working on in teaching, practice and research.

More than 3,600 students study and conduct research in the five faculties of Social Sciences and Education, CITY I BUILDIING I CULTURE, Civil Engineering, Design and Information Sciences. The three strategic FHP´s research focuses “Digital Transformation—Urban Future”, “Forming Society” and “Design—Build—Preserve” address societal challenges and questions about the future across all faculties. Together with partners in the Berlin-Brandenburg science region and in Germany and abroad, a wide range of ideas and innovative solutions are being developed.

We want our university to reflect the diversity of society and are committed to equal opportunities and equal participation in working life.

For more information about the position, please see website. Application deadline: March 20, 2025.

University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Department of Design / European Media Studies
Kiepenheuerallee 5
14469 Potsdam
Germany