Joel Swanson portrait
Associate Professor • TYPO Studio • ART, DESIGN, TYPOGRAPHY • Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society
ATLAS Institute

ATLS 201A

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Joel Swanson, ATLAS associate听professor, teaches digital art, media theory听and the history of design for the Creative Technology and Design听(formerly TAM) program, where he served as director of the TAM program from 2007 to 2016. His tenure home is in the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics and Society,听and he has a courtesy appointment in the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance PhD听Program.听Joel's听research and teaching interests includes听digital art, digital media theory, design and typography.

Joel's artwork is听motivated by literary theory and exists as a series of installations, both real and virtual, that explore the nature of language and its embodiment. His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions such as the Broad Museum in Lansing, The Power Plant in Toronto听and the North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2014 Joel听had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Most recently he showed work in Personal Structures, an official satellite show of the 57th Venice Biennale, and he is represented by David B. Smith Gallery in Denver. 听

Joel received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of California San Diego, where his focus was computing and the arts. He earned his听Bachelor of Fine Arts in digital art from 兔子先生传媒文化作品.

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