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Topics:  Animation, Art, Future of Work, Design, Cinema

Industries: Education/Learning, Fine Art

Johannes DeYoung is an internationally recognized artist and filmmaker who works at the intersection of computational and material processes. His moving-image works have been exhibited internationally at venues such as: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt en Main, Germany; Hesse Flatow (Crush Curatorial), Jeff Bailey Gallery, Robert Miller Gallery, Interstate Projects, Eyebeam, and MoMA PS1 Print Studio, New York, NY; as well as numerous festival screenings in countries such as Australia, Greece, Ireland, New Zealand, Turkey, and Vietnam. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, The Huffington Post, and Dossier Journal.

DeYoung co-founded the periodic web journal Lookie-Lookie. He 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. DeYoung is appointed Assistant Professor of Electronic and Time-Based Media at Carnegie Mellon University. He previously taught at Yale University School of Art (2008—2018), where he was appointed Senior Critic and 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 2006.

Media Experience

Professor DeYoung Presents at Three Conferences this Summer  — Carnegie Mellon University School of Art Faculty News
DeYoung presents a talk on his work, “The Endless Mile (Another Line of Becoming),” at this biennial convening of motion designers, animators, artists, and educators. DeYoung’s talk explores the historical precedents and design affordances of the scroll as they relate to his own work, and as they relate to cultural storytelling traditions, modern and contemporary art practices, and interactive computational techniques. The 2023 convening takes place at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia, PA.

IDeATe Explores the Meaning in Randomness  — Carnegie Mellon University News
The creative team and faculty mentors for this project included: Heidi Wiren Bartlett, designer and adjunct professor, Johannes DeYoung, assistant professor of art, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, assistant teaching professor in music theory, Jesse Stiles, assistant teaching professor of sound media and music and Robert Zacharias special faculty in IDeATe.

Take an augmented reality tour of Pittsburgh’s main library with Carnegie’s Monocle — check out the video here  — NEXTpittsburgh
The project was designed by students last spring in CMU’s Real-Time Animation and Experimental Sound Synthesis classes, which were taught by Assistant Professor Johannes DeYoung and Assistant Teaching Professor of Music Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, respectively.

Multimedia premiere ‘The Raft’ features experimental music, art, and alumni  — YaleNews
That adventurous thinking has led to a new multimedia experience called “The Raft,” which will premiere at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media on April 3 at 7:30 p.m. The work is an exploration of sound and visuals that involves video imagery from Johannes DeYoung, faculty director and senior critic at Yale School of Art, who had been similarly moved by Heyerdahl’s tale and a related book by crewmember Erik Hesselberg. The Kon-Tiki expedition even inspired an art installation by DeYoung in 2014.