Presenter

Johannes DeYoung (moderator) is an artist and educator who works at the intersection of computational and material processes. He is appointed Assistant Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University School of Art in Pittsburgh, PA. His work has been exhibited at numerous international venues including the B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany; Crush Curatorial, Robert Miller Gallery, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Eyebeam, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY; the Images Festival at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; and featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and Dossier Journal. He has served on the New Foundations Board of Study for time-based media at Purchase College, State University of New York; the Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts Contemporary Art Council; and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, as Digital Literacy Consultant. From 2008—2018, he taught animation and moving-image courses at Yale University School of Art, where he was appointed Senior Critic and founding Director of the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and at the Yale School of Drama, where he was appointed Lecturer in Design. At Yale, he also served as Principal Investigator for the Blended Reality program in immersive media research. He received his MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI.