[Bcma-l] Job Posting - Community Services Assistant 5 - Digital Outreach Intern

[bcma-l@museumsassn.bc.ca]

CITY OF SURREY
Parks, Recreation & Culture

Community Services Assistant 5
Surrey Art Gallery Digital Outreach Intern
(Duration: May – September 2008)

Do you have an interest in the Visual Arts and developing leading edge 
technology?

This is a rare opportunity to contribute to the development of open 
source software for use in the creation of an innovative contemporary 
art project. If you enjoy working with programming code and would like 
to work with professional artists instead of business executives, this 
is the job for you. Do you see yourself as an artist in addition to 
being a programmer? This Internship will be fun, challenging, and 
provide you with the tools and experience useful for your own portfolio 
and resume upon completion of the contract.

The Surrey Art Gallery’s Digital Outreach Intern will work within a team 
including three internationally recognized artists and will help expand 
the possible behaviors of their proprietary software applications. This 
team is working on a year-long TechLab digital art residency project, 
known as GLOCAL. GLOCAL will realize an interactive and on-line artwork 
that uses a relational database and social networking tools. Surrey has 
been designated as a Cultural Capital of Canada for 2008 and the GLOCAL 
project is one of its key initiatives. This project has also been 
supported by Arts Partners in Creative Development, with the final 
artwork planned for presentation in 2010.

During the internship, the candidate will add to their skills, and 
particularly enhance their ability to work with art-focused multimedia 
computer object-oriented programming platforms (Flash, Max/MSP, 
Processing, ActionScript) tangible computing, web programming 
(HTML/JAVA, WordPress), archival database management (FileMaker Pro, 
Microsoft Access), as well as the maintenance and application of other 
electronic hardware based devices (webcams, CPUs, mobile phones).

Candidates should have excellent organizational and interpersonal 
skills, advanced computer skills, and can demonstrate the ability to 
plan and manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Successful applicants 
will have experience working in teams and working effectively with youth 
and the public.

Work hours are generally between 9 and 5pm, Monday to Friday, with 
occasional evening and weekend hours.

This opportunity is grant funded to assist students who have recently 
completed their post secondary education gain practical work experience 
in their given discipline. Applicants must have completed a degree or 
diploma from a post secondary school in the areas of visual arts, 
computer science, digital media, interactive arts, communications, art 
education or arts management.

Compensation: $21.65/hour
Application deadline: 5pm - March 26, 2008

www.surreycareers.ca

City of Opportunity. Progress Through Diversity.

The City of Surrey wishes to thank all applicants for their interest and 
advises that only
those to be interviewed will be contacted.