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 Associate Professor of Art in 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.

EDUCATION

M.F.A. Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

B.F.A. Summa cum Laude, Allen R. Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

 

EXHIBITIONS

2023

Bridge Film and Video Festival, SITE/less, Chicago, IL; Oct 28

Darkroom Festival, IKLECTIK, London, UK; Sept 23

Official Selection: Chroma Art Film Festival, Rainbow Oasiiis x Superblue Museum, Miami, FL; Aug 12

Nothing is as it Seems, Screening at Walter’s Amsterdam, curated by Bart Keijsers Koning. Amsterdam, NY; Aug 6

Far Out Fest, curated by Dycee Wildman, Nashville, TN; July 13

Mirror Mirror (Double Vision), with Natalie Westbrook, Everyday Mooonday, Seoul, Republic of Korea; Jun 17 — Jul 16

Official Selection: Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; June 29 — Jul 2

Official Selection: International Poetry Film Festival, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA; Apr 28

Lost Horizon (Double Vision), with Natalie Westbrook, OMNI Gallery, London, UK; Jan 26 — Feb 25

2022

Louisville Film Society Short Film Slam, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Nov 17

Official Selection: Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO; Sept 1—30

Official Selection: Mad Visions International Film Festival, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Jun 10 — 11

FutuRetro, Athens Digital Art Festival, Athens, Greece; May 25 — 29

Official Selection: Frame & Frequency VIII, Rockville Arts Festival, Rockville, MD; May 7 — 8

Official Selection: Halicarnassus Film Festival, Gümüşlük, Bodrum, Turkey; May

Official Selection: The 5th Annual Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival, Jim Thorpe, PA; Apr 21—24

Microwave Coven Presents, AV Expression Warehouse, San Antonio, TX; Apr 1

Official Selection: FLICKFAIR Streaming Film Festival; Feb 1—28

2021

Official Selection: Norwalk Film Festival, Norwalk, CT; Dec 17—19

Supernova Regeneration, Denver Film Festival Annex Lounge; Nov 5—14

Silent Screen, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO; Sept 1—30

Official Selection: Mosaic World Film Festival, Sept 17—19

ALC Video Art Festival, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante, Spain; Aug 31 — Sept 4

Official Selection: Defy Film Festival, Nashville, TN; Aug 20—21

Official Selection: Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; July 15—25

Official Selection: Vancouver Independent Film Festival; May 2021

Official Selection: Chicago Indie Film Awards; Apr 30—May 3

Official Selection: Montreal Independent Film Festival; Mar 22—24

Big Hypnotic Eye Perversion, Virtual Dream Center

2020

TRUTHS, B3 Biennale of the Moving Image, Frankfurt en Main, Germany

Untitled and Untied, SIGGRAPH Asia Virtual; Dec 4 — 13

World on Fire, Supernova Digital Animation Festival, Denver, CO

Official Selection: VASTLAB Experimental Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA

Official Selection: Syracuse International Film Festival, Syracuse, NY

Official Selection: Orlando Film Festival, Orlando, FL

Mill Street, Mill Street Projects, New Haven, CT

2019

Sea [Sic], New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA

Curator: Strange Loops, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT

Video Snack 7, Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Art, Richmond, VA

Odds and Ends: Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Immortal on Screen, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

AXxoN N.: A Collective Commentary on David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Rhode Island School of Design, Memorial Hall, Providence, RI

AXxoN N.: A Collective Commentary on David Lynch’s Inland Empire, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

2018

Odds and Ends: Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Labyrinths, IEEE Games, Entertainment, and Media Conference, NUI Galway, Ireland

Hunger, Crush Curatorial, New York, NY

2017

B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany

The Sands, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

Odds and Ends: Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

The Electronic Arts Library, Artspace, New Haven, CT

2016

In Kingdom Come, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Images Festival, Ontario, Canada

In Kingdom Come, North Bay Film Festival, North Bay, Ontario, Canada

In Kingdom Come, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

In Kingdom Come, no.w.here, London, England

In Kingdom Come, GivLOWE Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

Odds and Ends: Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Fellowship, Constitution Plaza Gallery, Hartford, CT

2015

Night Flight, TSA New York, Brooklyn, NY

Gollum, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT

Gimme Shelter, Ridge+Clark, www.ridgeandclark.com

2014

Video Snack 3, MoMA PS1 Print Shop, Queens, NY

2013

SUDDENNESS + CERTAINTY, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

Ego Loser, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Project Space, New York, NY

Video_Dumbo: Video Rover, Eyebeam, New York, NY

Hearts of Darkness, Gallery Homeland, Portland, OR

Strange Natures, Institute Library, New Haven, CT

Diamond Head, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York

2012

Where is the Here if the Here is in There? Pallas Projects, Dublin, Ireland

New Fiction, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE

Microwave, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA

Ego Loser, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

Material Frequencies, Davenport College, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2011

Flights of Fancy, New Wilmington Art Association, Wilmington, DE

Half Empty, Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn, NY

Videos on the Front, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY

Video Rover: Season 1, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY

2010

Confusion is Next, Hell Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

HOPE-A-HOLIC, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY

2009

The Happening, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY

Wallpaper, Teton Art Lab, Jackson, WY

2008

Everything Must Go, Flux Factory, LIC Queens, NY

2007

New York, New York, New York, Flux Factory, LIC Queens, NY

REHAB, Yacht Club Gallery, Detroit, MI

Grizzly Proof, Flux Factory, LIC Queens, NY

2006

60 Seconds of Play, Saltworks Gallery Project Room, Atlanta, GA

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023

DeYoung, Johannes.  “The Endless Mile (Another Line of Becoming),” UNFRAMED | (MODE) Motion Design Education Summit 2023. Focal Press (Routledge), Waltham, MA.

2021

DeYoung, Johannes. “Making Room for Chance,” (RE)CONNECT | (MODE) Motion Design Education Summit 2021. Focal Press (Routledge), Waltham, MA.

2020

Kaack, Nicole. Twelve Month Crush.  New York, NY: Crush Curatorial / Hesse Flatow, 2020

Daniels, Kelly. Review | Strange Loops. Connecticut Art Review. February 20, 2020

Slattery, Brian. Artspace Makes a Feedback Loop. New Haven Independent. February 3, 2020

Radillo, Annie.  Strange Loops probes art and media as self-reflection.  Yale Daily News.  January 30, 2020

Czepiel, Kathy Leonard.  In the Loop.  Daily Nutmeg.  January 22, 2020

Wilkinson, Don.  Nearby Waters Inspire Series of Exhibitions, Artscope Magazine.  January—Feb, 2020

2019

Birke, Judy.  Review: Artspace exhibits explore good & bad of tech-guided life.  New Haven Register.  December 24, 2019

Gellman, Lucy.  Artspace Gets Thrown for a (Strange) Loop.  Arts Paper.  December 16, 2019

Mattera, Julianne.  IDeATe Explores the Meaning in Randomness.  Carnegie Mellon University News.  December 16, 2019

DeYoung, Johannes and Federico Solmi.  Maladies of the Infinite, Strange Loops.  New Haven, CT: Artspace, 2019.  ISBN: 978-0-578-60624-8

DeYoung, Johannes. “Labyrinths: An Exhibition Platform for Artists in Virtual Reality,” (INTER)PLAY | (MODE) Motion Design Education Summit 2019. Focal Press (Routledge), Waltham, MA

Deppen, Colin. “Go back in time at Carnegie Library with this New Carnegie Mellon App,” The Incline, June 26

O’Toole, Bill. “Take an augmented reality tour of Pittsburgh’s main library with Carnegie’s Monocle,” NEXT Pittsburgh, June 20

Mattera, Julianne. “Augmented-Reality App Highlights Pittsburgh History at Carnegie Library,” Carnegie Mellon University News, June 17

O’Shea, Patrick, host. “Versatilist with Johannes DeYoung.” The Versatilist, May 19

2018

Kracke, Bernd and Marc Reis. On Desire: Positionen zeitbasierter und immersiver Künste / Positions of time-based and immersive arts. Bielefeld, Germany: [transcript] Verlag, 2018.

ISBN: 3839442850, 9783839442852

Belli, Brita. “Multimedia premiere ‘The Raft’ features experimental music, art, and alumni,” Yale News, Apr 3

Pham, Le Vi. “Show takes audience on multimedia journey,” Yale Daily News, Apr 3

Cummings, Mike. “A Maker Space Where Art and Technology Merge,” Yale News, Feb 8

2017

Cummings, Mike. “Yale Artists Leave Mark at Biennial Conference on the Moving-Image,” YaleNews, Dec 7

Herzig, Roman. “Successful Ending in Frankfurt,” Weltexpresso, Dec 4

Huther, Christian. “B3 Biennial of the Moving Image in the Rhine-Main area begins,” Main-Spitze.de, Nov29

Kammann, Petra. “ON DESIRE. About the Desire,” Feuilleton Frankfurt, Nov 28

Berins, Lisa. “Moving Desire: Exhibition ‘On Desire’ at the ‘B3 Biennale’ in Frankfurt,” op-online.de, Nov 28

Bremer, Nils. “B3 Biennale in Frankfurt: Art of Desire,” Journal Frankfurt, Nov 23

DeYoung, Johannes. Huffington Post (DE Edition), Nov 21

Elbenni, Ahmed. “The ‘Bakery’: Exploring Yale’s New Media Center,” Yale Daily News, Sept 12, 2017

Panko, Ben. “Reach Out and Touch This Virtual Reality Art Installation,” Smithsonian Magazine, August 18

Sutton, Benjamin.  "VR Exhibition Pays Tribute to a Long-Gone Vegas Casino," Hyperallergic, August 9

Gray, Rowen.  "An Accident of Time," Take Magazine, June 26

2016

Harrison, Ben.  "In Kingdom Come,"  Exclaim!  April 28

2015

DeYoung, Johannes. "In Conversation: Irena Jurek," staringatthewall.com, August 2

Hendricks, Christian. "Night Flight at Tiger Strikes Astroid Gallery," The Huffington Post, June 11

Slattery, Brian. "Gollum Romps In The Uncanny Valley". New Haven Independent, May 25

DeYoung, Johannes. "In Conversation: Brandi Twilley," staringatthewall.com, January 4

McDonald, Amy Athey. “DMCA Aims to Promote Connectedness, Digital Creativity,” Yale News, Sept 1

2013

Johnson, Ken. "Joshua Marsh 'As If' and Johannes DeYoung "Ego Loser". The New York Times, April 12 2013: C29

Markus, Liz. “Liz Markus Gallery Crawl,” The Huffington Post, May 8

Seely, Thomas. “Art Uncovered: Diamond Head,” Interview, BreakThru Radio, April 9, New York, NY

Galgiani, Allison. "Five Shows That Are Bound to Get You Out of Your Winter Slump," Buschwick Daily, March 21, 2013

2012

McCarroll, Courtney. “In Conversation With Johannes DeYoung,” Dossier Journal, May 2012

Schwartz, Chip. “Intrigue of Technology and Self at Grizzly Grizzly,” Knight Foundation, May 8, 2012

DeYoung, Johannes. “Sandwich Isle Romantics: Deeper, Deeper Diamond Head!” Title Magazine, May

Dunne, Susan. Hartford Courant, April 2012

2011

Steinberg, Rachel. “Videorover (Season 1),” NURTUREart 2010/2011. Exhibition Catalog, 2010/2011

Gordon, Josef K. “Confusion is Next,” The Thousands, August 2010

2010

Vartanian, Hrag. “Yale Art Dept Website Has ‘Officially Cemented Trolling as an Artform’,” Hyperallergic, Nov 10

2009

Murphy, Tarah. “The Happening: Kinesics as Art Object,” Rush Arts, April 2009

2008

Silverman, Justin Rocket. “Art in Flux,” New York Post, April 12

Davis, Ben. “Art in Flux,” Artnet Magazine, April 12

“So Nice We Named it Thrice,” New York Times, Urban Eye Weekend, Jan. 11

New York, New York, New York (So nice we named it thrice), Exhibition Catalog, Flux Factory

2007

NYArts Magazine, Winter 2007/2008 Artworld Digest, “Seed Issue,” Spring 2007

 

HONORS | AWARDS | SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2023

Artist Talk: The Endless Mile (Another Line of Becoming), Expanded Animation Symposium, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; Sept 8 — 10

Invited Speaker: The Art of Expanded Animation, ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference; Los Angeles, CA; Aug 6 — 10

Invited Speaker: Lightning Fields: Blockchains, NFTs, and the Future of Digital Arts Practice, ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference; Los Angeles, CA; Aug 6 — 10

Moderator/ Organizer: Finding Appeal: Creative Careers in Animation, Computer Graphics, and Interactive Techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH 2023 Conference; Los Angeles, CA; Aug 6 — 10

Moderator/ Organizer: The Phantasmagoric Dispositif: Collapsing Time and Space, ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS (Short Presentations of Artworks & Research for the Kindred Spirit); Jun 30

Artist Talk: Effervescent Shadow Bazaar, Society for Animation Studies, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; Jun 12 — 16

Artist Talk: The Endless Mile (Another Line of Becoming), MODE Summit 2023, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA; Jun 8 — 10

Invited Speaker: Effervescent Shadow Bazaar: An Immersive Art and Music Experience, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Innovation, Research, and Experiences in Education (SOIREE); Jan 27

2022

Visiting Artist / Guest Critic: Yale University School of Art; Dec 1—2

Moderator/ Organizer: NFTs and the Non-fungible Experience, ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS (Short Presentations of Artworks & Research for the Kindred Spirit); Sept 30

Panelist: The Accursed Share of Non-fungibles: What NFTs and Blockchains Suggest for Arts Practice, Pedagogy, and the General Economy, ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Conference; Vancouver, BC.  Aug 8 — 11

Moderator/ Organizer: Onward! Creative Careers in Animation, Computer Graphics, and Interactive Techniques, ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Conference; Vancouver, BC.  Aug 8 — 11

Invited Speaker: The Bully Puppet: Caricature, Parody, and Satirical Animation Against a Tyranny of Images, University Film & Video Association Annual Conference, SUNY Fredonia, NY; July 25 — 30

Artist Talk: Animation Unlocked, Society for Animation Studies, Teeside University, Middlesbrough, UK; June 26 — July 3

Moderator/ Organizer: Experimental and Expanded Animation: Exploring Artistic Possibilities, ACM SIGGRAPH SPARKS (Short Presentations of Artworks & Research for the Kindred Spirit); May 27

Invited Speaker: Expanding the Integrative Design, Arts and Technology Network, ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Innovation, Research, and Experiences in Education (SOIREE); May 13

Host: SIGGRAPH Spotlight Podcast; Apr 4

2021

Visiting Artist / Guest Critic: Yale University School of Art; Dec 13—14

Invited Speaker: animaScapes: Animation and Beyond Symposium, CINANIMA International Animated Film Festival of Espinho, Portugal; Nov 9

Artist Talk: University of Tampa, Department of Film, Animation, and New Media; Sept 20

Session Chair: Taking the Leap, ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Conference; Aug 9—13

Panelist: Birds of a Feather: Massive Collaborative Animation Projects, ACM SIGGRAPH 2021 Conference; Aug 9—13

Artist Talk: University Film & Video Association Virtual Conference, University Film & Video Association. July 27 – 30

Artist Talk: Animate Energies, Society for Animation Studies; Jun 15

Invited Speaker: MODE Summit 2021, Boston, MA/Virtual; Jun 10

Artist Talk: Yale University School of Art, Digital Animation; Apr 13

Artist Talk: Tyler School of Art, Temple University; Apr 7

2020

Artist Talk: Vision 20/20: Hindsight, Insight, and Foresight in XR and Immersive Learning Virtual

Conference, Immersive Learning Research Network Virtual Conference. Jun 21–25

Panelist: University Film & Video Association Virtual Conference, University Film & Video Association. Jul 26-31

Panelist: Birds of a Feather: Massive Collaborative Animation Projects, ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Conference; Daegu, South Korea. Dec 10

Panelist: Birds of a Feather: Massive Collaborative Animation Projects, ACM SIGGRAPH 2020 Conference; Los Angeles, CA. Aug 27

Artist Talk: Spring Lecture Series, Carnegie Mellon University School of Art; Pittsburgh, PA. Feb 25

Curator Talk: Real Strange: How Real-time Graphics are Transforming Art Practice, Artspace New Haven, CT. Feb 29

Speaker: Creative Thinkers Summit, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ; February 1, 2020

Speaker: The Future of Creativity: A Dialogue with CMU Faculty, Los Angeles, CA; January 30, 2020

2019

Speaker: Strange Loops, Curators Talk, Artspace New Haven, CT; December 14, 2019

Speaker: “Labyrinths: An Exhibition Platform for Artists in Virtual Reality,” MODE Summit, Wellington, New Zealand

Design/Publications Chair and Panel Moderator: IEEE Games, Entertainment, and Media Conference, New Haven, CT

2018

Visiting Artist: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Visiting Artist: The New School / Parsons, New York, NY

2017

Panelist: "Re-Animators," B3 Biennial of the Moving Image, Frankfurt, Germany

Visiting Artist Lecture: Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Panelist: "Massive Collaborative Animation Project," SIGGRAPH 2017 Conference, Los Angeles, CA

Panelist: "Blended Reality Future," EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA

2016        

Visiting Artist Lecture: Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Visiting Artist Lecture: Landmark College, Putney, VT

Lightning Round Speaker: Yale Tech Summit, New Haven, CT

2015        

Arts Chair and Panel Moderator: IEEE Games, Entertainment, and Media Conference, Toronto, Ontario

Teaching Artist in Residence: Hui No'eau, Maui, HI

Visiting Artist Lecture: Lyme Academy College of Fine Art, Lyme, CT

2014         

Teaching Artist in Residence, Hui No’eau, Maui, HI

Artist Fellowship, Connecticut Office of the Arts, CT

2013        

Visiting Artist Lecture: Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT

2006        

The Ora Lerman Trust Artists Residency, Wyalusing, PA

2005        

Susan Sosnick Painting Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI