Candidate # 1

Our university is hiring a New Media professor and allows their students to get in on the deal. Students are able to meet each candidate for a meet and greet lunch and also listen to a lecture by the each candidate. The University welcomes students' input and opinions. I think that it is really important for schools to include students in the hiring of a new professor since it could profoundly affect their education.

The first candidate that came to our school was very unique. This candidate is currently a professor at a Florida school where he also teaches in the arts. I think that this candidate was very intriguing and most unusual. He reminds me of a mad scientist of the arts. It was very apparent that this candidate is very intelligent. He seems to use many aspects of engineering and science incorporated with art.

Many of the first candidate's art was very experimental and technical. One example of the professor's work that I particularly liked was his study for children and the sounds of MRI machines. This candidate created a game involving toys and the different sounds of MRI machines so that children would be exposed to the machines noises before they had a procedure, thus desensitizing them to the machine's noises. I like that this candidate uses art for a purpose.

One of the candidates more simplistic works was a portrait he did of a friend. This portrait was unique because he made it with cups of coffee. He took a photo of his friend and reduced it to simple tones of brown. The artist then matched each tone with a specific tone of coffee, by adding cream to the coffee to change its color. He spent hours mixing the perfect tones of brown and arranging them to mimic the tones in the photo. The artist then suspended a camera above the composition of coffee filled cups and took a photo of them all in their place. The end result was quite amazing and represent the actual photo quite well.