Deadline: December 7, 2017

Curator, Digital Art

V&A is seeking to appoint a Curator who will play a major role in the acquisition and cataloguing of artworks for the Word & Image Department’s digital art collection. The post holder will also promote the collection, host group visits, answer enquiries and contribute to the development of relevant exhibitions, displays and publications.

Following the acquisition of the Patric Prince Collection and the archives of the Computer Arts Society in the mid-2000s, the V&A’s Word & Image Department now holds an internationally significant collection of computer art from the 1960s onwards. Examples include plotter drawings, impact prints, photographs and screen prints by pioneers such as Frieder Nake, Vera Molnar, Manfred Mohr, Harold Cohen, Barbara Nessim, Jeremy Gardiner and Roman Verostko. These earlier works are complemented by an increasing range of recent born-digital artworks by artists such as Daniel Brown, Aaron Koblin and Casey Reas.

The Department now holds an estimated 2,000 computer-generated artworks in total. These are documented via the Museum’s Collections Management System (CMS), which also contains records for archival material. Relevant books, periodicals and other bibliographic materials are listed on the National Art Library’s library management system. Word & Image staff also collaborate with colleagues in the V&A’s Design, Architecture and Digital Design department, which is responsible for collecting digital design.

For more information and to apply, please visit: https://www.vam.ac.uk/vacancies