Author: Joey Bargsten

About the Author: Composer and media artist Joey Bargsten is best known for his landmark interactive digital media work Bad Mind Time™  (1998; www.badmindtime.com), which has been exhibited internationally and has won awards in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Stuttgart . He recently completed his third transmedia opera MelanchoLalaland™ (2015), with the support of the Knight Foundation, and premiered in Miami Beach.  His films have been shown in festivals internationally and his music has been performed by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony. He currently teaches interactive multimedia, experimental sound and music, and VR/AR at Florida Atlantic University’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies and in its MFA program in Media, Technology, and Entertainment.

About the Book: Part artist’s book and part inquiry into creative processes, Experimental Media Voodoo speculates on hybrid forms of art, music, and culture that develop through contemporary technology. This work takes a playful and engaging approach to how one uses—and subverts—digital tools to transform common material (glitches in technology, noise, and unremarkable language) into meaningful and expressive art and performance. It’s a bold text for introducing transdisciplinarity to undergraduates, inviting them to infuse technology into their artistic practice and to develop an individual path to innovation. Tutorials using cross-platform freeware and many online resources are included.