Social Media & Digital Engagement Internship — Table of the Elements
 (Fine Arts, Music, and Literature Focus)

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Organization

Table of the Elements is a curatorial network and interdisciplinary platform, a live-event presenter, and a fine-arts publisher of print, audio, and film. Since 1993, it has worked with international creators of radical innovation across music, literature, and intermedia art. Its catalog of 170+ releases, along with influential festivals and publications, has been described by Pitchfork as “a national treasure.”

Position Overview

We are seeking a motivated intern with strong graphic and video editing skills to help adapt original fine-arts publishing content for contemporary platforms. This role focuses on creating high-impact visuals and short-form campaigns (Instagram Reels, stories, digital posts), transforming catalog and archival material into engaging formats without compromising aesthetic integrity.

This role also supports the broader, member-powered mission of Table of the Elements, connecting artists and audiences through storytelling, publishing, and digital engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Frequent Instagram Reels and short-form video posts

  • Adapt catalog entries, essays, and archival material into visually striking posts

  • Edit and format images and video for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Squarespace, and Substack

  • Maintain a consistent, dignified aesthetic while reaching wider audiences

Qualifications

  • Graphic design skills (Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, Adobe Express)

  • Video editing skills (Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci Resolve, or similar)

  • Familiarity with Instagram and other platforms as cultural publishing tools

  • Strong visual literacy; sensitivity to typography, layout, and composition

  • Interest in experimental music, literature, and visual art is preferred

Structure

  • 5–10 hours per week, flexible, remote-friendly

Compensation

This role provides access to an internationally recognized, member-powered network of artists and publishers, along with portfolio-ready production experience and credibility within the fine-arts community. Previous interns have gone on to award-winning careers in publishing, production, and curation.

The internship is unpaid in salary terms, but academic credit is possible. The primary value lies in the access, credibility, and association gained by working within a member-powered international arts network.

To Apply

Submit a portfolio (10–15 samples) plus a statement (max 300 words) describing the value you perceive in Table of the Elements and how this opportunity might reverberate for you. We are not concerned with résumés — we know what it’s like to start from scratch. A thoughtful statement that reveals an affinity with our artists and mission will resonate.

Thank you for your interest!






A Conduit for History Exploding in the Present Moment

TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS is a curatorial network and interdisciplinary platform, live-event presenter, and fine-arts publisher of print, audio, and film, lauded by Pitchfork Media as “a national treasure.” Since its origin as a record label in 1993, TotE has been dedicated to preserving, promoting, and promulgating works by international creators of radical innovation. The organizations’s 170-plus releases — along with influential intermedia festivals — comprise a vital contemporary chronicle, a survey of meaningful eruptions across a broad horizon of sound, word, and vision.  Each unique project demonstrates how a publishing concern might romp wild, unbridled from the carousel of convention.

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"The supremacy of Table of the Elements as an unwavering outpost of ultra-experimental strains can be attributed to its concomitant adherence to valiance. Most of the Table of the Elements catalog has no broad commercial appeal, and many of its projects are risky ventures, even with respect to the experimental marketplace. Yet, this philosophy of risk works because everybody associated with the label feels like they're doing important work releasing important records, and they're willing to go for broke to make it happen.”
—Grayson Haver Currin, Pitchfork

“The hallmarks of this New Archivism are beautiful and innovative packaging, elaborate and idiosyncratic liner notes, rare and obscure recordings ... Working with graphic designers such as the Grammy-winning Susan Archie, Jeff Hunt produced a collection that combines varied textures, lavish finishes, and period details with art from the era of the original source recordings. Their treatment of Robert Longo’s late 1970s photographs for Rhys Chatham’s releases could, for instance, measure up to what’s on view at most contemporary art centers. In addition to its archival endeavor, TotE also releases the new work of its avant-garde heroes and their devotees. TotE’s active support of the work of sonic pioneers ensures that theirs are living traditions — not ossified museum objects.”
—Thomas Peake, Art Papers

Tony Conrad: Completely In the Present
A Film by Tyler Hubby

"Hubby's film captures Conrad in all his facets ... broadly as a man determined to make 'abstract art funny, happy, energetic, joyful.' Conrad lived long enough to see his early recordings, barely or never released, get the reissue and the attention they deserve. ... [Completely In the Present] is a sharp, sweet, eloquent documentary about the merriest, most artistically expansive minimalist on record. His work and his life asserted the importance of listening for the sounds nobody else has heard."
—Chicago Tribune

“Joyous, exhilarating, and transformative, Tyler Hubby’s documentary is essential viewing for anyone involved in the history of music and visual art.”
—Artforum

"Conrad was 100 percent badass. Without Tyler Hubby’s documentary and Table of the Elements ... one of the great stories of American music and art might have gone underappreciated.”
—Henry Rollins

 

 

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All contents ©1992–2025 Table of the Elements ®2025 Table of the Elements. All Rights Reserved. Related media from the Table of the Elements Archive published courtesy the estate of Tony Conrad.

Since 1993, Table of the Elements has staked its claim on a massive enterprise. It intends nothing less than to rewrite the history of American music in the second half of the 20th century -- and beyond. The label’s 150-plus releases are a vital contemporary chronicle, a survey of meaningful eruptions across a broad horizon of improvised, experimental, minimal and outsider sounds.

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