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Joey Bargsten, Ph.D. New Media Artist and
Composer |
Assistant Professor,
School of Communications and Multimedia Studies Florida Atlantic
University ¥ 954-762-5260 email – jbargste@fau.edu |
Curriculum
Vitae
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]
Publications
DVDs self-published
online at createspace.com and amazon.com: BAD MIND TIMEª ULTRA DVD, Triageª,
Anatomy of Melancholyª and FILMDOGª [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 WorldsÓ
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 TIMEª selected Winner of the
Audience Award for New Media Art in the 17th 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 TIMEª in ÒInteractivaÓ category [October 2002]
Silver Award in
Broadcast Design Association International Design Competition for BAD MIND
TIMEª in
the CD-ROM Special Event Entertainment category [Los Angeles, June 2002]
PRINT Magazine Interaction 2000
Annual, featuring BAD MIND TIMEª 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 TIMEª [March 2000]
1998
INVISION Award presented by New Media Magazine for CD-ROM version of BAD
MIND TIMEª, 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]
Soundtrack
Credit
Composed soundtrack for
film Sparks (directed by Werner Bargsten). Winner of the DirectorÕs Choice
Award, Black Maria Film Festival, Jersey City, NJ [January 1999] and the Best
American Short Award, New York City/Avignon, France Film Festival [1999];
broadcast on The Independent Film Channel [2002-2003]
Major
Conferences and Exhibitions
PROJECK IAGHTª included in New Media
ConsortiumÕs NMConnect held online in Second Life [February 2007]
Hover/Iaghtª performed with members
of the Dusie Poetry Collective at the concert ÒFlarf: Poetry, Music, FilmÓ,
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA [September 2006]
PROJECK IAGHTª 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 Melancholyª, 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]
RAPIDª digital film and video
jam excerpts from Anatomy of Melancholyª presented at Future Music Oregon concert
series, University of Oregon Department of Music, Eugene, OR [Nov. 2004]
BAD MIND TIMEª 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 Sockª and BAD MIND TIMEª 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 TIMEª included in Immedia
2000 Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI [February 2000]
BAD MIND TIMEª included in gallery of
Digital Art and Culture Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
[October 1999]
Demonstrated BAD
MIND TIMEª 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
ÒIntroducing BAD MIND TIMEªÓ 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 Melancholyª, 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 Novaª 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]
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 TIMEª. DVD/CD-ROM/Web; (http://www.badmindtime.com); [1995 to present]
Cinema
(Digital
Film; Digital and Analog Video)
To Do Listª(in progress).
Triageª (2006), DVD collection
of three short digital films: HOVERª (2006), PROJEK IAGHTª(2005), and FLESHYª(2006).
PROJEK IAGHTª (2005), 3:39; Search
engine-based digital film.
Anatomy of Melancholyª (2005), 2:00:00;
digital cinema for multimedia opera/spectacle.
FILMDOGª (2004), 7:20;
experimental instructional film. Super 8 and digital video.
Video Jamª v. 1.0 (2004), 42:00;
experimental film for real-time manipulation, on DVD.
Motion Studiesª (2003), 2:40;
experimental film.
American Sockª (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
Voodooª: 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]
Sonic Design, a chapter from Design
Fields
(in progress), a basic design text in collaboration with colleagues Leon
Johnson and Megan O'Connell, University of Maine
Musical Compositions (selective list)
Orchestra
Web Symphony; distributed,
asynchronous, scalable work for large or chamber orchestra with orchestral
parts generated randomly in real time over the Internet [1999-2000]
Tarot Cartoons; 42:00; large
orchestra, MIDI instruments, live digital audio; 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 14th 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]
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 TIMEª 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]
Opera
Anatomy of Melancholyª (2005); 2:00:00; multimedia opera,
including 4 major roles, 3 minor parts, chorus, dance, digital cinema and
interactive motion graphics.
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]
Electronic/Tape/Digital
Audio
Unstable Musicsª [2008] 34:27. Digital
electronic media.
Anatomy of Melancholyª [2004] 1:36:44.
Electronic soundtrack to multimedia opera/spectacle [September 2004]
MANATUAª: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 Happeningª; 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 TIMEª 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]; DirectorÕs 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
ShakespeareÕs Titus Andronicus, directed by Sheldon Deckelbaum, produced by
Florida Atlantic University Department of Theatre and Dance, Boca Raton, FL
[February 2008]
Music for ShakespeareÕs
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 LumierŽs; 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]