Artistic Director AEC

[claudia westermann]

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The Ars Electronica Center, a world-renowned cultural institution of 
the City of Linz, is the international
arbiter of the state of the art in the interdisciplinary encounter 
with new technologies.
The Ars Electronica Center is seeking two executives to begin 
employment immediately:

Artistic Director

Together with the business manager/CFO and our executive staff, you 
will develop strategies,
business plans and organizational models for all aspects and 
activities of the AEC. You will also be responsible for attracting 
new sponsors, partners and associates, and maintaining good relations 
with existing ones.

You will prepare reports for the executive committee and the 
committee meetings. You are able to efficiently and effectively carry 
on a close working relationship with this institution's 
decision-making bodies. As a matter of course, you take a 
team-oriented approach that makes for a good fit in a cooperative 
management model.

Your chief task is artistic-substantive program development in all of 
Ars Electronica's fields of activity-
the Ars Electronica Festival, the Prix Ars Electronica, the Museum of 
the Future, and the Futurelab, the
Ars Electronica's in-house R&D laboratory. Thanks to your outstanding 
track record in an artistic and/or scholarly leadership position and 
proven ability to provide substantive orientation and leadership to a
top international cultural institution, you are in a position to 
professionally plan and execute the Ars Electronica Festival and the 
Prix Ars Electronica.

Your excellent knowledge of and connections to the international and 
Austrian art and technology
scene helps you to maintain good working relations with sponsors and 
public-sector subsidizers and to attract new ones, as well as to 
build up strategic cooperative relationships and partnerships with
outside associates.

You will create the Ars Electronica Center's mission statement and 
the general cultural policy guidelines governing this institution. In 
your capacity as top management spokesperson of the Ars Electronica 
Center, you will be responsible for this institution's public 
relations and press relations.

You have an integrative leadership personality with outstanding 
communication skills and a particip-
ative management style. You bear direct personnel responsibility for 
the AEC's artistic staff. You are capable of conducting negotiations 
and business meetings in German or English. You display a high
level of goal orientation and take a customer-friendly, service 
oriented approach to the process of maintaining good relations with 
existing sponsors and public-sector subsidizers and in recruiting new 
ones, as well as in your interactions with customers, partners and 
associates. Your dealings with the media as well as with 
private-sector and public-sector sponsors are marked by a high degree 
of professionalism and poise.

You seek the special challenge that comes with a top executive 
position at an internationally renowned cultural institution active 
at the interface of art, technology and society, and developing 
trend-setting projects together with a staff of professionals who 
enjoy experimentation.

Your compensation will be oriented on comparable positions at 
artistic, scientific or scholarly institutions in the public sector.