JOEY BARGSTEN Digital Media Artist and Composer	Joey Bargsten has been composing music and creating experimental media and films since 1978. His music has been played by the Indianapolis Symphony and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and has been featured at the New York University film festival, the Atlanta Arts Festival, and on National Public Radio's International Concert Hall. He received awards from the New Media INVISION Competition and PRINT Magazine's Interaction 2000 Annual for BAD MIND TIME(tm) (http://www.badmindtime.com), an interactive CD-ROM/DVD/website that has been described as "a charming personal entertainment system where Joycean puns and references to game shows collide randomly in an idiosyncratic homage to twentieth century art and pop culture." (—Print Magazine). BAD MIND TIME(tm) also won the audience award at the 2004 Stuttgart Filmwinter Expanded Media Festival, and was included in the 2005 Web Bienniale. He recently completed his digital do-it-yourself iPod opera, Anatomy of Melancholy(tm), and has presented excerpts at the College Art Association Conference, and at Future Music Oregon. His digital film American Sock(tm) (2001) was included in the 2002 Fluxus International Digital Festival, and won a Silver International Design Award from Broadcast Design Association (Los Angeles, 2002). His search-engine art film PROJEK IAGHT(tm) (2005) was shown at the New York Minute Film Festival, and the San Francisco Bayenniale (2005). Joey Bargsten has taught at University of Iowa, Georgia Tech, Atlanta College of Art and University of Oregon. He is currently teaching in the School of Communications and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University.
Catalogue of Work
Interactive Media	Body Digital: Bodies, Aesthetics, Technology; CD-ROM-based interactive media containing videos by students at Georgia Tech, exploring representations of the body throughout history as influenced by culture/technology; co-edited with Ellen Strain of Georgia Institute of Technology [1999] BAD MIND TIME™. DVD/CD-ROM/Web; (http://www.badmindtime.com); [1995 to present]
Cinema (Digital Film; Digital and Analog Video)	To Do List™(in progress). Triage™ (2006), DVD collection of three short digital films: HOVER™ (2006), PROJEK IAGHT™(2005), and FLESHY™(2006). PROJEK IAGHT™ (2005), 3:39; Search engine-based digital film. Anatomy of Melancholy™ (2005), 2:00:00; digital cinema for multimedia opera/spectacle. FILMDOG™ (2004), 7:20; experimental instructional film. Super 8 and digital video. Video Jam™ v. 1.0 (2004), 42:00; experimental film for real-time manipulation, on DVD. Motion Studies™ (2003), 2:40; experimental film. American Sock™ (2001), 8:20; combining animation and live motion, shown at the Thaw 2002 Digital Media Festival at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA [April 2002] Atmosphere Lesson (1987); 7:20; video plus 5-channel sound; presented during a seminar on video works, Memphis State University New Music Festival, Memphis, TN [April 1988]; shown at Local Transmissions Video Festival, Decatur, GA [January 1997] Intermission: Cerberus and Thunder, Perfect Mind (1987); 48:20; experimental video; presented during a seminar on recent video works, Memphis State University New Music Festival, Memphis, TN [April 1988]
Writings	Digital Media Voodoo™: Recipes for Digital Media Art and its Subversion [in progress; draft online at http://www.badmindtime.com/nuBook/indexXML.htm] Multimedia, an article including overview of multimedia history, design, and authoring for The Internet Encyclopedia, Hossein Bidgola, Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ [January 2004]
Musical Compositions (selective list)
Orchestra	t00n (mmix); ca.30:00; concerto/spectacle for orchestra and live digital media. [1994, re-imagined 2008] Web Symphony; distributed, asynchronous, scalable work for large or chamber orchestra with orchestral parts generated randomly in real time over the Internet [1999-2000] Cyborg Symphony; 42:00; MIDI instruments, live digital audio, vocalists, orchestra; funded in part through grants from the Georgia Arts Council and the Bureau of Cultural Affairs of the City of Atlanta [1998] Symphonic Moods; 12:10; orchestra; received ASCAP Foundation Grant for Young Composers [1979]; played by Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Raymond Harvey and featured at 14^th Annual State University New Music Festival [September 1980]; broadcast on National Public Radio's International Concert Hall series [January 1981]; reviewed in High Fidelity/Musical America [January 1981]
Opera	Anatomy of Melancholy™ (2005); 2:00:00; multimedia opera, including 4 major roles, 3 minor parts, chorus, dance, digital cinema and interactive motion graphics.
Chamber Orchestra	Libretto; 9:00; perpetuum mobile; electronic realization for piano, speaker, MIDI instruments, chamber orchestra, dancers/actors; performed at Seven Stages Theatre, Atlanta [June 1992] Sinfonia; 26:15; chamber orchestra; reading rehearsal given by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra under Bill McLaughlin [May 1982]; finalist, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Composer's Competition [1982]
Chamber-Instrumental	Retro; dance suite for two pianos; 38:15, [2003] Granula; violin, 5.1 surround sound, digital signal processing, and laptop ensemble [2002] The New Structure; 20:00; structured improvisation system for three performers and MIDI sound module; performed by Phobia Nova at the Georgia Institute of Technology/New York University Conference on Performance and Technology [April 1997] and at the 1997 Arts Festival in Atlanta [September 1997] SEMA: Rumi's Dance; 20:00; solo piano; premiered by John D. White, University of Iowa Composers' Concert [May 1987]; performed by John White at the College Music Society Southern Chapter Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico [April 1990], at the Society of Composers Inc. National Convention, Florida State University Festival of New Music in Tallahassee [March 1989], and at the Center for New Music, University of Iowa [April 1989] Thunder, Perfect Mind; 9:20; fifteen performers, three concert grand pianos; performed as part of sound chaser/soul chaser [1984] (see below); July 1987 videotaped performance included on BAD MIND TIME™ ULTRA DVD [2007] gymnopuppies ii; 8:15; trumpet, viola, bass clarinet, prepared piano, [1983]; winner, Musicians' Accord Second Annual Composition Competition, [June 1985]; premiered by Musicians' Accord, Symphony Space, New York City [March 1986]; performed at the 1988 Memphis State University New Music Festival featuring members of the Memphis Symphony [April 1988]
Vocal or Extended Ensemble	Hover/Iaght 9:45; multimedia work for six vocalists, thee reciters, digital cinema, and audio [2006]; performed at the Flarf/Dusie Poetry Extravaganza at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA [September 2006] Memento Mori; 9:11; six vocal parts [2001]; performed at NEAMO (Northwest Experimental Music Organization) Festival, Portland, OR [October 2001] Articles of Space; 19:11; six vocal parts; performed as part of the exhibit Articles of Space, Western Oregon University, Monmouth, OR [April 2001] Requiemette; 15:30; four vocal parts [1996]; performed as part of the Poets on Rooftops/Art in Odd Places concert series, Little Five Points, Atlanta [October 1996] Roger's Story (fons chymicae veritatis); 9:00; six vocal parts, speaker, bowed metal ensemble; conducted by composer, performed at Living Composers, Inc. Choral Concert, Georgia State University School of Music Recital Hall, Atlanta, GA [May 1992]
Chamber-Vocal	Divination Firewoman Songs; 12:00; voice, orchestra; performed at New York University Theatre Workshop production of The Rat's Tooth by Erik Blanc, New York, NY [March 1996] sound chaser/soul chaser III; 14:30; clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, violin, violoncello, piano. soprano, baritone, bowed piano ensemble; thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Iowa [1985]; published by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, MI [1985] toot-toot;10:20; vocal ensemble, recorders, bottles, toys; ensemble conducted by the composer, UI Composers' Concert [July 1983]; also performed at Fleischer Memorial Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA [April 1984] Five Songs to Texts by Peter Everwine; 11:00; voice and piano; thesis, Master of Arts, University of Iowa [1982]
Electronic/Tape/Digital Audio	Unstable Musics™ [2008] 34:27. Digital electronic media. Anatomy of Melancholy™ [2004] 1:36:44. Electronic soundtrack to multimedia opera/spectacle [September 2004] MANATUA™:Remix MMIV; 38:41 MIDI, digital signal processing, and digitally manipulated vocals [June 2004]. Available for purchase online at http://www.cafepress.com/badmindtime . Sea of Happening™; 32:40; digital signal processing/ digital sample manipulation [April 2003] Sound Alley Project; four programs, 90:00 each, for sound installation, Arts Festival Atlanta [September 1997] BAD MIND TIME™ Audio Retrospective [1990-2005; ed. 2008] thirteen volumes, 34:00-55:00 each
Music for Film/Video	After; 15:00; music for film written and directed by Leon Johnson. [2004] Sparks; 9:00; music for film written and directed by Werner Bargsten, Jr.; shown at the International Short Film Festival of Bilbao, Spain [1998]; Director’s Choice Award, Black Maria Festival, Jersey City, NJ [1999]; Best American Short, New York City/Avignon Festival [1999]; broadcast on The Independent Film Channel [2003] China White; 10:00; music for video drama by Scott Porterfield, the featured video at the New York University Film and Video Festival [1988]
Music for Theatre	Music/sound design for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, directed by Sheldon Deckelbaum, produced by Florida Atlantic University Department of Theatre and Dance, Boca Raton, FL [February 2008] Music for Shakespeare’s The Tempest, directed by John Schmor, produced at the Lord Leebrick Theatre, Eugene, OR [March 2005] St. Joseph's Book of Acts: A Prologue; 42:00; written by David Abel, video by Justin Novak and J. Bargsten, performed by Leon Johnson and John Schmor, produced at the Lord Leebrick Theatre, Eugene, OR [May 2002] The Mummy's Heart; 60:00; written and directed by Erik Blanc; produced at the NYU Theatre Workshop, NYC [April 1997]; restaged as The Mummy at HEAR Theatre, NYC [May 1998] Space; 42:00; music for children's puppetry theatre, written and directed by Jon Ludwig; produced at the Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta [January-March 1996. restaged April 2001] The Lumierés; 70:00; music for an evening of music and theatre directed by Jennifer Abel; Seven Stages Performing Arts Center, Atlanta [December 1993] Dave Saga; 45:00; theatre, dance, music, and video for sextet of vocalists/actors/dancers and MIDI instruments; choreography by Mark McCusker; live broadcast of performance on local television, Iowa City [July 1989]
Music for Dance	Jetty; 11:30; Orchestra; electronically realized score for choreography by David Berkey, UI Department of Dance, presented at the 1988 University of Iowa Dance Gala, Iowa City, IA [November 1988]
Publications	DVDs self-published online at createspace.com and amazon.com: BAD MIND TIME™ ULTRA DVD, Triage™, Anatomy of Melancholy™ and FILMDOG™ [2007] Multimedia, an article including overview of multimedia history, design, and authoring, for The Internet Encyclopedia, Hossein Bidgola, Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken NJ [2004] Best of Both Worlds” an article for the magazine, Electronic Musician, discussing new techniques for integrating digital audio and MIDI sequencing [August 1993] sound chaser/soul chaser, a chamber opera, University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI [1985] Quintet for Winds, a composition for wind instruments, Dorn Publications, Medfield, MA [1981]
Awards	Certificate of Merit Award by the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for composition/ sound design on the FAU production of Titus Andronicus [February 2008] BAD MIND TIME™ selected Winner of the Audience Award for New Media Art in the 17^th Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany (http://www.filmwinter.de) [Jan. 2004] Selected to participate in Fluxus International Film Festival for the Internet; featuring Web version of BAD MIND TIME™ in “Interactiva” category [October 2002] Silver Award in Broadcast Design Association International Design Competition for BAD MIND TIME™ in the CD-ROM Special Event Entertainment category [Los Angeles, June 2002] PRINT Magazine Interaction 2000 Annual, featuring BAD MIND TIME™ as an award-winning new media/interactive design [November 2000] 1999 International CINDY Award presented by the International Association of Audio Visual Communicators for the CD-ROM version of BAD MIND TIME™ [March 2000] 1998 INVISION Award presented by New Media Magazine for CD-ROM version of BAD MIND TIME™, San Francisco, CA [November 1998] Winner, Musicians' Accord Second Annual Composition Competition, New York, NY [July 1985] Finalist, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra Composer's Competition, St. Paul, MN [May 1982] Guest Composer, Indiana State University 14th New Music Festival, Terre Haute, IN [Sept. 1980]
Grants	Grant from UO Educational Technology Committee; proposed and received this grant along with the Multimedia Design Faculty at UO for incorporating technology into large lecture classes [Sept. 2002] Grants from Georgia Arts Council, Bureau of Cultural Affairs for the City of Atlanta, and Fulton County Arts Commission, Atlanta, Georgia [March 1993]
Major Conferences and Exhibitions	PROJECK IAGHT™ included in New Media Consortium’s NMConnect held online in Second Life [February 2007] Hover/Iaght™ performed with members of the Dusie Poetry Collective at the concert “Flarf: Poetry, Music, Film”, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA [September 2006] PROJECK IAGHT™ included in Bayennial, San Francisco [August 2005] and in the New York Minute Film Festival, New York City [September 2005] VIDEO JAM and SOUND ART: Excerpts from Anatomy of Melancholy™, a performance of real-time video manipulation and electronic sound art to be presented in the ARTSpace performance gallery at the 2005 College Art Association National Conference in Atlanta, GA [February 2005] RAPID™ digital film and video jam excerpts from Anatomy of Melancholy™ presented at Future Music Oregon concert series, University of Oregon Department of Music, Eugene, OR [Nov. 2004] BAD MIND TIME™ included in the D-ART 2004 Digital Art Gallery in conjunction with the International Visualization Conferences in London, England, and Penang, Malaysia [July 2004] American Sock™ and BAD MIND TIME™ included in University of Iowa Museum of Art exhibition in conjunction with Thaw 2002 Digital Media Festival, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA [April 2002] BAD MIND TIME™ included in Immedia 2000 Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI [February 2000] BAD MIND TIME™ included in gallery of Digital Art and Culture Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta [October 1999] Demonstrated BAD MIND TIME™ at the 1998 INVISION New Media Awards Conference ("Playland"), San Francisco, CA [November 1998] "New Media: Desktop Production", Atlanta Film & Video Festival Panel, Atlanta, GA [June 1998] Presented lecture “Introducing BAD MIND TIME™” at the Georgia Institute of Technology/New York University Conference on Performance and Technology, Atlanta [April 1997] One of 43 international auditors/composers of the Boulez/IRCAM Workshop, Carnegie Hall, New York City [November 1993] Presented lecture SEMA: Rumi's Dance (discussing my solo piano work) at the College Music Society Southern Chapter Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico [April 1990] Presented lecture/demonstration on bowed piano techniques and recent video works, Memphis State University New Music Festival, Memphis, TN [April 1988]
Performance Highlights and Collaborations	Composed music and sound design for Florida Atlantic University production of Titus Andronicus, directed by Sheldon Deckelbaum, FAU Theatre, Boca Raton, FL [February 2008] As a composer/performer for Creative Materials Group, Eugene, OR: Composed soundtrack for production of The Tempest, directed by John Schmor, presented at Lord Leebrick Theatre, Eugene, OR [October 2004] Exhibited and performed excerpt from Anatomy of Melancholy™, presented as part of the Motelhaus exhibition in collaboration with other University of Oregon Art Faculty; including installation, performance, and digital video, Eugene, OR [November 2002] Composed soundtrack and collaborated on digital video for production of St. Joseph Book of Acts, Written by David Abel, presented at Lord Leebrick Theatre, Eugene, OR [May 2002] Performed structured electronics and violin for Leon Johnson and Justin Novak (Art faculty, University of Oregon) in TRAKL, at DISJECTA Performance Space, Portland, OR [May 2001] As a composer/performer in Phobia Nova™ ensemble: Video jam and sound art performance in the ARTSpace performance gallery at the 2005 College Art Association National Conference in Atlanta, GA [February 2005] Composer/participant in the Northwest Electroacoustic Music Organization's Third International Festival, conducting electroacoustic composition, Memento Mori, Portland, OR [October, 2001] Performed at Railroad Earth Recording Studio, including improvisation with composers Pauline Oliveros and Dick Robinson, Decatur, GA [April 2000] Performed at the opening reception of the Digital Art and Culture Conference, co-hosted by the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, [Oct. 1999] Performed and curated the Sound Alley electroacoustic installation, presenting a marathon 7-hour performance, Arts Festival of Atlanta [September 1997] Performed in concert (in conjunction with lecture) at the Georgia Institute of Technology/New York University Conference on Performance and Technology, Atlanta, GA [April 1997] Performed in six concerts with the exhibit John Cage: Rolly Holy Over, Philadelphia Institute of Art [July 1995] Peformed at de Kooning Retrospective concert, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA [Sept. 1994]
Interview	National Public Radio, interviewed by Ev Grimes for International Concert Hall [Sept. 1980]
Education	Doctor of Philosophy in Composition, University of Iowa (1985) Master of Arts in Composition, University of Iowa (1982) Bachelor of Music (Education, Oboe), Iowa State University (1980)
Academic Experience	Assistant Professor, School of Communications and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University [August 2007 to present] Visiting Assistant Professor in Multimedia, Digital Arts Program, Department of Art, University of Oregon, teaching beginning to advanced courses in multimedia tools, survey, digital imagery, digital video, digital audio, digital animation, interactive design, sound design, Web art, and sound art (undergraduate and graduate; full-time appointment) [September 2000 to August 2005] Adjunct Instructor, Atlanta College of Art; courses in interactive media and Web design [January 1999 to June 2000] Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology; co-taught course in video production and visual culture [March to June 1999] Adjunct Instructor/Lecturer, Center for Credit Programs, University of Iowa; courses in composition/ improvisation for the untrained musician, and popular American music [January 1987 to Aug.1989] Visiting Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; courses in music composition, theory, literature, aural skills, and electronic music (undergraduate) [August 1985 to June 1986] Graduate Instructor, University of Iowa, in undergraduate music theory, aural skills and literature, and in graduate counterpoint and 20th century analysis/literature [August 1980 to May 1984]
Commercial Design Experience	Web Designer/Developer, CARE, Inc. (non-profit) [2005 to 2007]: Designed and managed Flash site for major donor (www.escampette.net); created supporting multimedia pieces for www.care.org. Associate, Coca-Cola USA [1991 to 2000]: Designer/programmer for internet/intranet and CD-ROM media [January 1999 to June 2000]; art director for Web and media production [May 1998 to January 1999]; print/electronic design and production [January 1994 to May 1998]; business presentations, print design and production [May 1991 to December 1993]