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Joey Bargsten, Ph.D.

New Media Artist



Assistant Professor, School of Communications and Multimedia Studies

Florida Atlantic University • 954-762-5260

email – jbargste@fau.edu

web – http://www.badmindtime.com, http://www.skyron.org




Curriculum Vitae

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Composition, University of Iowa (1985)


Master of Arts in Composition, University of Iowa (1982)
Bachelor of Music, 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 and audio, Flash animation and interactivity, sound design, Web art, and sound art (undergraduate and graduate) [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 August 1989]

Visiting Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; courses in music composition, theory, literature, aural skills, and electronics (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 music [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

Hybrid Forms and Syncretic Horizons: Speculations on Experimental Digital Media (book) Lambert Academic Publications, Saarbrücken, Germany [Fall 2011].

Experimental Media Voodoo™: An Artist’s Book of Syncretic and Subversive Horizons. Art book version of above text, seeking print publisher. Available online in .pdf format and as interactive Flash-based application at http://www.badmindtime.com/book .

Experimental Media Horizons: Digital Media Voodoo —The meme™ jr. Application (paper) included in EDULEARN 2010 conference and publications. International Association of Technology, Education and Development, Barcelona, Spain [April 2010].

meme™ - Exploring Experimental Media. iTunes music store [November 2009]

Experimental Media Horizons: Syncretic and Subversive Practice (paper) included in ICERI 2009 conference and publications. International Association of Technology, Education and Development, Madrid, Spain [November 2009].

Four DVDs published online, available at Amazon.com: BAD MIND TIME™ ULTRA DVD, Triage™, Anatomy of Melancholy™ and FILMDOG™ [2007]

Catalogue of fifteen works (film, music, performance works, remixable media) available under Creative Commons™ license at archive.org [2006 to present]

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, Dorn Publications, Medfield, MA [1981]

Awards

Finalist, Broward/Palm Beach New Times MasterMind Award [November 2009]

Third Prize, Brainwash Movie Festival for FILM DOG™: Thoughts on Film [July 2008]

Nominated for 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, Audience Award for New Media Art. 17th Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany (http://www.filmwinter.de) [January 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, Broadcast Design Association International Design Competition for BAD MIND TIME™ in the CD-ROM Special Event Entertainment category, Los Angeles, CA [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 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 New Music Festival, Terre Haute, IN [Sept. 1980]



Major Conferences, Exhibitions, and Film Festivals

ULTRA M3GA NANO META™, Solo art exhibit of digital realizations of conceptual projects, Second Avenue Studio, Ft. Lauderdale, FL; presentation by meme™, media experimental ensemble, during FAU Spirit Days, Presidential Inauguration Events [October 2010]

Showtel 8 Exhibit, Kara Walker-Tomé, curator. Hotel Biba, West Palm Beach, FL [April 2010]

Experimental Media Horizons: the meme™ Jr. Application (paper) presented at EDULEARN 2010 conference. International Association of Technology, Education and Development, Barcelona, Spain (virtual presentation) [April 2010]

Going Digital Exhibit, Joseph von Stengel, curator. Foreman Art Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY [January 2010]

Biennial Faculty Exhibit, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL [November 2009]



Experimental Media Horizons: Syncretic and Subversive Practices (paper) presented at ICERI 2009 conference. International Association of Technology, Education and Development, Madrid, Spain (virtual presentation) [November 2009]

Thunder, Perfect Mind (1987) shown at Brainwash Movie Festival, Oakland CA [July 2009]

downside shown at FAU Theatre and Dance Ensemble Concerts [January 2009] and at ReBound Dance Festival, New Haven, CT [November 2009]

Sticky Notes™ shown at Zero Film Festival, Los Angeles CA [December 2008]

FILMDOG™: Thoughts on Film shown at Brainwash Movie Festival, Oakland CA [July 2008]

PROJECK IAGHT™ included in New Media Consortium NMConnect, Second Life [Feb. 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 presented at the ARTSpace performance gallery, 2005 College Art Association National Conference in Atlanta, GA [February 2005]

Excerpts from Anatomy of Melancholy™ presented at Future Music Oregon concert series, University of Oregon Department of Music, Eugene, OR [November 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 for Thaw 2002 Digital Media Festival, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA [April 2002]

BAD MIND TIME™ in Immedia 2000 Gallery, U Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI [Feb. 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 and 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

Created and produced Trio for Brass and Digital Film “IXION” (2010). Live brass, music notation generating software, and auto-stereoscopic film, premiered at opening of Living Room Theatres and Culture and Society Building, FAU main campus, Boca Raton, FL [Nov. 2010]

Created sound design and music for exhibition/performance DUAL SITE, by Leon Johnson (writer, director) and John Schmoor (writer). Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME [January 2010]

Created sound design, music, and ephemera for exhibition/performance BLUE HAMMER, written and directed by Leon Johnson. Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME [April 2009] and Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY [January 2010]

Formed memeE™media experimental ensemble—performing live interactive and experimental media mixes, Cinema Paradiso, Ft. Lauderdale, FL [April and November 2009]. Hotel Biba, West Palm Beach, FL [April 2010] as part of Showtel 8 exhibit.

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:

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. Lord Leebrick Theatre, Eugene, OR [May 2002]

Performed structured electronics and violin improv in TRAKL by Leon Johnson and Justin Novak, 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, 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 opening reception of Digital Art and Culture Conference, co-hosted by University of Bergen, Norway, and Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, [October 1999]

Concert and curtaion of Sound Alley electroacoustic installation, presenting a marathon 7-hour performance, Arts Festival of Atlanta [September 1997]

Concert and lecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology/New York University Conference on Performance and Technology, Atlanta, GA [April 1997]

Six concerts at John Cage Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art [July 1995]

Peformed at de Kooning Retrospective concert, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA [September 1994]

Interview

National Public Radio, interviewed for International Concert Hall [September 1980]



Catalogue of Work

Interactive Media

BAD MIND TIME™ (1995 to present). DVD/CD-ROM/Web; (http://www.badmindtime.com). (See Awards and Major Conferences, Exhibitions, and Film Festivals above)

Experimental Media Voodoo™: An Artist’s Book of Syncretic and Subversive Horizons. Art book version of above text, seeking print publisher. Available online in .pdf format and as interactive Flash-based application at http://www.badmindtime.com/book

meme™ jr. (2010). Web-based videojam application for kids (http://memejr.badmindtime.com).

Cake It! (2009), interactive wunderkammer. Collaboration with writer Thea Zimmer. Published online by Fringe Magazine (http://www.fringemagazine.org/lit/declassified/cake-it/), [March 2010]

Body Digital: Bodies, Aesthetics, Technology (1999). 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.

Digital Film/Digital and Analog Video

IXION (2010). 3:40. Auto-Stereoscopic digital film with audio. Premiered at opening of Living Room Theatre/Culture and Society Building, FAU Campus, Boca Raton, FL [November 2010].

downSide (2009). 8:20. Dance/film collaboration with Clarence Brooks. FAU Theatre and Dance Ensemble Concerts [January 2009] and ReBound Dance Concert, New Haven, CT [November 2009]

Sticky Notes™ (2008). 28:18. Shown at Zero Film Festival, Los Angeles CA [December 2008]

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. Shown at Brainwash Movie Festival, Oakland CA (July 2008). Winner, 3rd prize in same festival.

Video Jam™ v. 1.0 (2004), 42:00; experimental film for real-time manipulation (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, presented at seminar of recent video, Memphis State University New Music Festival, Memphis, TN [April 1988]

Writings

Hybrid Forms and Syncretic Horizons: Speculations on Experimental Digital Media (book) Lambert Academic Publications, Saarbrücken, Germany [Fall 2011].

TranzMishunz™: Dreem Jernul (2011). Manuscript by "Skynard Ronstein" (a.k.a., SkyRon™). 340 pages, unpublished.

Experimental Media Horizons: Digital Media Voodoo—the meme™Jr. Application (2010). EDULEARN 2010 conference and publications. International Association of Technology, Education and Development, Madrid, Spain [April 2010].

Experimental Media Horizons: Syncretic and Subversive Practices (2009). ICERI 2009 conference and publications. International Association of Technology, Education and Development, Madrid, Spain [November 2009].

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

mNotation™(2010; formerly Web Symphony™, 1999-2000) mobile, asynchronous, scalable work for any number of classically trained musicians lasting an indeterminant amount of time, with musical notation generated randomly in real time, online. Premiere performance with brass trio at opening of Living Room Theatres/Culture and Society Building, FAU Boca Raton Campus [November 2010].

t00n (mmix) concerto/spectacle for orchestra and live digital media. Download at archive.org.

Symphonic Moods (1979) 12:10; orchestra. ASCAP Foundation Grant for Young Composers [1979]; played by Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Raymond Harvey and featured at Indiana State University New Music Festival [September 1980]; broadcast on National Public Radio's International Concert Hall [January 1981]; review in High Fidelity/Musical America [January 1981].

Chamber Orchestra

Libretto (1992) 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 (2003) dance suite for two pianos; 38:15.

Granula (2002) violin, 5.1 surround sound, digital signal processing, and laptop ensemble

The New Structure; 20:00; structured improvisation for three performers and MIDI sound modules; performed by Phobia Nova at the Georgia Institute of Technology/New York University Performance and Technology Conference [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 TIMEULTRA DVD [2003] and shown at Brainwash Film Festival, Oakland, CA [July 2009]

gymnopuppies ii (1985), 8:15; trumpet, viola, bass clarinet, prepared piano. Winner, Musicians' Accord Second Annual Composition Competition, [June 1985]; premiered by Musicians' Accord, Symphony Space, New York City [March 1986]; performed at Memphis State University New Music Festival by members of the Memphis Symphony [April 1988]

Opera

BEEST OPERA™ (work in progress)

Anatomy of Melancholy (2005); 2:00:00; multimedia opera, including 4 major roles, 3 minor parts, chorus, dance, digital cinema and interactive motion graphics (http://opera.badmindtime.com). Score and performance parts on archive.org.

Vocal, Solo, Chamber, and Extended Ensemble

BLUE HAMMER Vocal Ambience (“ne plus ultra Generica”) [2009]; incidental music for vocalists and ambient electronics. Performed during BLUE HAMMER at Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME [April 2009] and Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY [January 2010]

Hover/Iaght 9:45; multimedia work for vocalists, reciters, digital cinema, and audio [2006]; 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]

Paradoxa (1998) six vocal parts; Decatur Arts Festival, Decatur, GA [July 1998]

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]

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]

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]

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 playing recorders, bottles, and toys conducted by the composer, UI Composers' Concert [July 1983]; performed at Fleischer Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA [April 1984]

Five Songs to Texts by Peter Everwine, 9:00; soprano, piano. Performed at Midwest Composers’ Symposium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL [April 1982]

Music for Dance

Jetty; 11:30; Orchestra; electronically realized score for choreography by David Berkey, UI Department of Dance. 1988 University of Iowa Dance Gala, Iowa City, IA [November 1988]

Electronic/Tape/Digital Audio

meme™: Three Videojams (2009 - 2010) 62:40. Soundtrack for live video manipulation. Performed at Showtel 8 exhibition, Hotel Biba, West Palm Beach, FL [April 2010].

Unstable Musics™ (2008) 34:27. Digital electronic media. Available online at archive.org.

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; four programs, 90:00 each, installation, Arts Festival Atlanta [September 1997]

BAD MIND TIME™ Digital Symphonies [1990-2005; ed. 2009] thirteen volumes, 34:00-55:00 each, published online, Archive.org.

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]

Music for Theatre

Music/sound design for exhibition/performance DUAL SITE, written by Leon Johnson and John Schmoor, and directed by Leon Johnson. Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME [January 2010]

Music/sound design, and ephemera for exhibition/performance BLUE HAMMER, written and directed by Leon Johnson. Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME [April 2009] and Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY [January 2010]

Music/sound design for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, directed by Sheldon Deckelbaum, 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, 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 performers; choreography by Mark McCusker; live broadcast of performance on local television, Iowa City [July 1989]



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