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