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The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts specializing in Video and Interactive Media. This position will advance the School’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Emerging Media Arts while contributing to the continued development of its proposed Bachelor of Fine Arts in Entertainment Design and Production. Working within the interdisciplinary environment of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, the successful candidate will collaborate with artists, designers, filmmakers, and technologists across disciplines, strengthening connections between the two programs through creative research, innovative storytelling, and real-world projects.
We seek an active artist and designer with a recognized body of professional work in video, projection, interactive media, or related fields. The position combines creative activity and research, undergraduate and graduate teaching, student mentorship, and interdisciplinary collaboration across moving-image design, live performance, installations, and immersive media.
The position will be based in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, the primary setting for teaching, creative research, and collaboration with faculty and students across animation, film, experience design, computational media, digital fabrication, and immersive and interactive storytelling. The faculty member will also contribute expertise in video, projection, and mediated design to the developing Entertainment Design and Production curriculum, including applications in theatre, opera, dance, and other live and experiential work. Teaching assignments will reflect the successful candidate’s expertise and the curricular needs of the School.
Duties and Responsibilities
Video and Interactive Media
- Teach the artistic, conceptual, and technical processes of video and interactive media design, including visual storytelling, composition, dramaturgy, spatial media, and audience experience.
- Teach contemporary workflows in projection mapping, media systems, real-time visuals, interactive media, and multimedia performance, as appropriate to the candidate’s expertise.
- Incorporate relevant practices such as augmented and virtual reality, motion capture, virtual production, and responsive environments.
- Mentor students through original projects, installations, performances, laboratories, and realized productions.
- Support production-based learning in video and mediated design, including interdisciplinary projects and, where appropriate, Nebraska Repertory Theatre productions.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Collaboration
- Contribute to the continued development, delivery, and assessment of undergraduate and graduate curricula within the School and Center.
- Help develop and deliver coursework in video, projection, media systems, and mediated design.
- Collaborate with faculty and staff in emerging media arts, entertainment design and production, performance, film, music, dance, and related disciplines on teaching, productions, and creative research.
- Connect students with professional practices across live, recorded, immersive, and virtual entertainment.
Teaching, Research, and Professional Responsibilities
- Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in video and interactive media. Assignments may include moving-image design, interactive storytelling, projection and spatial media, real-time systems, immersive media, and video design for live performance.
- Maintain an active, peer-recognized program of creative activity and research through professional productions, exhibitions, installations, commissions, festivals, screenings, publications, or comparable work.
- Pursue collaborations, commissions, residencies, grants, and professional partnerships that advance creative work and student opportunities.
- Integrate current artistic methods, technologies, and relevant ethical considerations into teaching and creative work.
- Participate in recruitment, advising, portfolio review, curriculum development, faculty governance, and School, College, and University service.
- Maintain a record of teaching, creative activity and research, and service consistent with expectations for promotion and tenure.
Appointment
This is a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment with the following workload distribution:
- 50% Teaching – Undergraduate and graduate instruction, mentorship, project-based learning, and curriculum development.
- 40% Creative Activity and Research – Original artistic work, professional production, dissemination, and related research.
- 10% Service
About the School and Center
The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, part of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, brings together performers, designers, filmmakers, and storytellers across traditional and emerging creative disciplines.
At the forefront of this interdisciplinary environment is the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts (JCCEMA), a distinctive hub for creative research and experimentation at the intersection of art, technology, and storytelling. As the teaching home to the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Emerging Media Arts, the Center supports work in cinematic and interactive storytelling, immersive experiences, computational media, and emerging forms of artistic expression. Its innovative facilities and collaborative environment support faculty and students in developing and presenting new work.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln is a vibrant university community and state capital with a growing technology sector and a strong arts and cultural ecosystem. The University is adjacent to a dynamic downtown with restaurants, music venues, theatres, bike trails, and residential neighborhoods.
The city is home to the Lied Center for Performing Arts, Sheldon Museum of Art, International Quilt Museum, Nebraska State Museum, and the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, along with independent arts and performance organizations.
Minimum Required Qualifications
- Terminal degree in media arts, design, film, theatre, or a related field; or a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least five years of significant professional creative experience in lieu of a terminal degree.
- An active professional career in video, projection, interactive media, or related design practice, demonstrated by a body of recognized work in productions, exhibitions, festivals, museums, installations, live events, or digital and immersive platforms.
- Demonstrated artistic and technical expertise in video or interactive media design.
- Ability to collaborate across artistic and technical disciplines.
- Evidence of teaching effectiveness, professional mentorship, or potential for effective undergraduate and graduate instruction.
- Evidence of sustained or developing creative activity and research with potential for national or international recognition.
Preferred Qualifications
- Significant professional credits, commissions, exhibitions, or other recognized accomplishments in video, projection, interactive media, or multimedia performance.
- University teaching, curriculum development, or comparable professional mentorship experience.
- Experience creating work for theatre, opera, dance, film, installations, museums, galleries, or other experiential settings.
- Experience with projection mapping, spatial media, real-time visual systems, augmented or virtual reality, motion tracking, motion capture, editing, compositing, or motion graphics.
- Fluency with tools such as TouchDesigner, Unreal Engine, Unity, Disguise, Isadora, QLab, or comparable platforms.
- Strong understanding of dramaturgy, visual composition, narrative, and relationships among media, performers, space, and audiences.
- Experience leading interdisciplinary creative collaborations and mentoring students through realized projects.
Posted Salary
How to Apply
Click “Apply for this Job”, complete the faculty information form, and attach the following required documents:
- Letter of interest describing professional experience, creative research, teaching, and interest in this position.
- Curriculum vitae detailing academic appointments, professional experience, creative activity, and teaching accomplishments.
- Teaching philosophy describing instructional approach and student mentorship. Attach as “Other Document.”
- Digital portfolio or links documenting selected video, projection, interactive media, installation, or related creative work.
- Names and contact information for three professional references.
Position Summary
The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts specializing in Video and Interactive Media. This position will advance the School’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Emerging Media Arts while contributing to the continued development of its proposed Bachelor of Fine Arts in Entertainment Design and Production. Working within the interdisciplinary environment of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, the successful candidate will collaborate with artists, designers, filmmakers, and technologists across disciplines, strengthening connections between the two programs through creative research, innovative storytelling, and real-world projects.
We seek an active artist and designer with a recognized body of professional work in video, projection, interactive media, or related fields. The position combines creative activity and research, undergraduate and graduate teaching, student mentorship, and interdisciplinary collaboration across moving-image design, live performance, installations, and immersive media.
The position will be based in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, the primary setting for teaching, creative research, and collaboration with faculty and students across animation, film, experience design, computational media, digital fabrication, and immersive and interactive storytelling. The faculty member will also contribute expertise in video, projection, and mediated design to the developing Entertainment Design and Production curriculum, including applications in theatre, opera, dance, and other live and experiential work. Teaching assignments will reflect the successful candidate’s expertise and the curricular needs of the School.
Duties and Responsibilities
Video and Interactive Media
- Teach the artistic, conceptual, and technical processes of video and interactive media design, including visual storytelling, composition, dramaturgy, spatial media, and audience experience.
- Teach contemporary workflows in projection mapping, media systems, real-time visuals, interactive media, and multimedia performance, as appropriate to the candidate’s expertise.
- Incorporate relevant practices such as augmented and virtual reality, motion capture, virtual production, and responsive environments.
- Mentor students through original projects, installations, performances, laboratories, and realized productions.
- Support production-based learning in video and mediated design, including interdisciplinary projects and, where appropriate, Nebraska Repertory Theatre productions.
Interdisciplinary Curriculum and Collaboration
- Contribute to the continued development, delivery, and assessment of undergraduate and graduate curricula within the School and Center.
- Help develop and deliver coursework in video, projection, media systems, and mediated design.
- Collaborate with faculty and staff in emerging media arts, entertainment design and production, performance, film, music, dance, and related disciplines on teaching, productions, and creative research.
- Connect students with professional practices across live, recorded, immersive, and virtual entertainment.
Teaching, Research, and Professional Responsibilities
- Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in video and interactive media. Assignments may include moving-image design, interactive storytelling, projection and spatial media, real-time systems, immersive media, and video design for live performance.
- Maintain an active, peer-recognized program of creative activity and research through professional productions, exhibitions, installations, commissions, festivals, screenings, publications, or comparable work.
- Pursue collaborations, commissions, residencies, grants, and professional partnerships that advance creative work and student opportunities.
- Integrate current artistic methods, technologies, and relevant ethical considerations into teaching and creative work.
- Participate in recruitment, advising, portfolio review, curriculum development, faculty governance, and School, College, and University service.
- Maintain a record of teaching, creative activity and research, and service consistent with expectations for promotion and tenure.
Appointment
This is a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment with the following workload distribution:
- 50% Teaching – Undergraduate and graduate instruction, mentorship, project-based learning, and curriculum development.
- 40% Creative Activity and Research – Original artistic work, professional production, dissemination, and related research.
- 10% Service
About the School and Center
The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, part of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, brings together performers, designers, filmmakers, and storytellers across traditional and emerging creative disciplines.
At the forefront of this interdisciplinary environment is the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts (JCCEMA), a distinctive hub for creative research and experimentation at the intersection of art, technology, and storytelling. As the teaching home to the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Emerging Media Arts, the Center supports work in cinematic and interactive storytelling, immersive experiences, computational media, and emerging forms of artistic expression. Its innovative facilities and collaborative environment support faculty and students in developing and presenting new work.
Lincoln, Nebraska
Lincoln is a vibrant university community and state capital with a growing technology sector and a strong arts and cultural ecosystem. The University is adjacent to a dynamic downtown with restaurants, music venues, theatres, bike trails, and residential neighborhoods.
The city is home to the Lied Center for Performing Arts, Sheldon Museum of Art, International Quilt Museum, Nebraska State Museum, and the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, along with independent arts and performance organizations.
Minimum Required Qualifications
- Terminal degree in media arts, design, film, theatre, or a related field; or a bachelor’s degree in a related field and at least five years of significant professional creative experience in lieu of a terminal degree.
- An active professional career in video, projection, interactive media, or related design practice, demonstrated by a body of recognized work in productions, exhibitions, festivals, museums, installations, live events, or digital and immersive platforms.
- Demonstrated artistic and technical expertise in video or interactive media design.
- Ability to collaborate across artistic and technical disciplines.
- Evidence of teaching effectiveness, professional mentorship, or potential for effective undergraduate and graduate instruction.
- Evidence of sustained or developing creative activity and research with potential for national or international recognition.
Preferred Qualifications
- Significant professional credits, commissions, exhibitions, or other recognized accomplishments in video, projection, interactive media, or multimedia performance.
- University teaching, curriculum development, or comparable professional mentorship experience.
- Experience creating work for theatre, opera, dance, film, installations, museums, galleries, or other experiential settings.
- Experience with projection mapping, spatial media, real-time visual systems, augmented or virtual reality, motion tracking, motion capture, editing, compositing, or motion graphics.
- Fluency with tools such as TouchDesigner, Unreal Engine, Unity, Disguise, Isadora, QLab, or comparable platforms.
- Strong understanding of dramaturgy, visual composition, narrative, and relationships among media, performers, space, and audiences.
- Experience leading interdisciplinary creative collaborations and mentoring students through realized projects.
Posted Salary
How to Apply
Click “Apply for this Job”, complete the faculty information form, and attach the following required documents:
- Letter of interest describing professional experience, creative research, teaching, and interest in this position.
- Curriculum vitae detailing academic appointments, professional experience, creative activity, and teaching accomplishments.
- Teaching philosophy describing instructional approach and student mentorship. Attach as “Other Document.”
- Digital portfolio or links documenting selected video, projection, interactive media, installation, or related creative work.
- Names and contact information for three professional references.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Media Assistant
Align your degree to media duties
Pull the O*NET profile for Media Assistant and map your communications, marketing, or journalism degree directly to the listed tasks. USCIS adjudicators look for a direct relationship between your field of study and the role's core responsibilities, not just a general bachelor's degree.
Target employers with LCA filing history
Search Migrate Mate to identify companies that have already certified Labor Condition Applications for media and communications roles. Prior LCA activity signals an employer understands the H-1B process and has an HR or legal team equipped to sponsor you.
Verify each worksite needs its own LCA
If your Media Assistant role involves shoots, events, or client sites at addresses not listed on the original LCA, your employer must file a separate certified LCA for each worksite. Confirm this with HR before accepting an offer that includes frequent off-site assignments.
Document degree-level creative responsibilities
Ask hiring managers to frame the job description around duties that require a bachelor's in communications, media studies, or a related field. Vague postings referencing general support tasks weaken your specialty occupation case; request a written role summary before USCIS filing begins.
Account for cap timing in your start date
H-1B cap selection rules have changed recently, so confirm the current registration window with your employer early. Build buffer into your start-date negotiation because cap-subject petitions can't take effect before October 1 of the fiscal year, even if approved sooner.
Use the OFLC Wage Search before salary talks
Run your job title and worksite zip code through the OFLC Wage Search to find the prevailing wage Level I through IV tiers for your market. Your employer's LCA must certify wages at or above the applicable level, so knowing the floor prevents offer letters that DOL will reject.
H-1B Visa Media Assistant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Media Assistant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Not automatically. USCIS requires the position to normally demand at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as communications, media studies, marketing, or journalism. When an employer structures the role around degree-level duties like campaign analytics, content strategy, or audience research rather than general clerical support, it can qualify. The job description language in both the offer letter and the LCA is what adjudicators evaluate.
How do I find Media Assistant jobs where the employer is already set up to sponsor H-1B visas?
Browse Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application filing history in media and communications. Targeting companies that have sponsored similar roles before reduces the risk of an employer backing out midway through the process because of unfamiliar legal costs or timelines.
What documents should I prepare before asking an employer to sponsor my H-1B?
Gather your academic transcripts, degree certificates, and any credential evaluations showing your foreign degree is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's in a relevant field. Also compile a portfolio of work samples tied to degree-level skills like media planning, content production, or analytics, since your employer's immigration attorney will use this evidence to build the specialty occupation argument in the I-129 petition.
How long does H-1B status last for a Media Assistant, and can it be extended?
USCIS grants H-1B status for up to three years on the initial approval. Your employer can file an extension petition to reach the six-year maximum. Beyond six years, further extensions generally require an employer-sponsored green card process to be underway, such as a pending I-140 immigrant petition or an approved PERM labor certification.
What happens if my Media Assistant job involves working at multiple client or event locations?
Each worksite address not covered by your original certified LCA requires a separate LCA filing before you begin work there. This matters significantly for media roles that involve on-location shoots, agency client offices, or event venues. Your employer must track and certify worksites proactively, so flag any new locations to HR before you show up, not after.