MEDRAR INTERNSHIP PROGRAM 2022 #1 MEDIA LAB INTERNSHIP

Medrar for Contemporary Art is very happy to introduce its internship program which offers students and fresh graduates  the opportunity to learn and contribute to various areas of interest such as archiving professional work, organizing public workshops, curating public exhibitions, organizing public screenings and more. Interns will engage with the administrative, creative, curatorial and  collaborative aspects of the work at Medrar for Contemporary Art.  They will gain an understanding of how creative institutional projects  work and function and identify the educational and cultural visions of contemporary art in  Egypt. The Internship program will offer 3 different opportunities:

• The Media Lab Internship —- Focus: Technical Equipment Management & Inventory Handling
• Marketing and social media Internship — Focus: Writing and Audio Visual Documentation
• Imaging Resources Internship—— Focus: Archive

Today, we announce our open call for the first internship opportunity: The Media Lab Internship.

1)The Media Lab Internship —- Focus: Technical Equipment Management & Inventory Handling

The Media Lab intern will work closely with the Technical Director of the multi-media lab and support in maintaining equipment and related technical activities, as well as the implementation phases of upcoming exhibitions technical setups. Interns will also work on organising & collecting data about the device components, equipment state & usage frequency in the inventory.They will learn to efficiently and effectively organize different formats of exhibitions that require a diverse set of skills and they will be encouraged to innovate by proposing novel or creative strategies in setting up the screenings and artworks. Interns will discover and work with a very wide and rich scope of equipment. They will learn their different usages, setups, the possibilities they offer as well as the different challenges they can cause. Interns will gain hands-on technical experience that could benefit them later on in a variety of professional and casual contexts. They will work with screens, analogue and digital converters, open source softwares (Arduinos), 360 and 180 cameras and much more! If you are eager to drown in a sea of cables, gadgets and computers and figure out different ways to manage and utilize these assets, this is for you!

Requirements: 

• Huge learning capacity, specially when facing new equipment & softwares
• Can organize different types of assets (digital & physical )
• Acquainted with the digital scene of used & trending technologies
• Decent knowledge of Google Workspace tools (sheets, docs, forms, …) 
• Loves to work with machines (but loves working with Humans much more!)

Responsibilities:

• Maintain & Setup the equipment needed for each of Medrar’s current activities & exhibitions (VR headsets, Cameras, Sound Systems, Projection, Screencasting, Attached Digitronic Devices, Media Streaming…).
• Getting familiar with newly purchased equipment & installed softwares. (Ex: wireless HDMI transmitters, laser projectors, sound cards, 5.1 speakers, htc vive cosmos headset, cutting plotter …)
• Storage Management: inventory count & stocktaking of available equipment, devices, and accessories.
• Data tracking & reporting for rented equipment, most used/unused devices.

Period of internship: 1 month paid (extendable) starting early next year

Deadline for applications: 15 December 2021