Rate My Professor Joey Bargsten

Dr. Joey Bargsten is a Professor in Arts and Culture at Florida Atlantic University, serving in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa, he specializes in interactive multimedia. Bargsten teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such as DIG 3110: Fundamentals of Multimedia, MMC3711: Interactive Multimedia, VIC4943: Multimedia Practicum, MMC6701: Creating Interactive Culture, MMC6715: Studies in New Media, and MMC4930/6930: Creating Interactive Soundtracks. His academic interests focus on integrating intermedia and audiovisual technologies with live performance, including 3D interactivity, virtual reality applications, multimedia opera, and motion-reactive visuals for dance. He founded and directs the MTEn Experimental Media Ensemble (meme™) at FAU, fostering innovative media projects.

Bargsten's creative output includes the trans-media opera MelanchoLalaland™, awarded the 2013 Miami Knight Arts Challenge and premiered at Miami Beach Cinematheque in 2015, with scenes at FilmGate Interactive Conference. Other works feature the digital film Sticky Notes™ selected for the Zero Film Festival (2008); VR project The Other: A Maze™ addressing social justice; soundtracks for Leon Johnson's intermedia performances at Whitney Art Works (Portland, ME) and Issue Project Room (Brooklyn, NY); and motion visuals for the New World Symphony's AIGA centennial concert. His interactive website BAD MIND TIME™ garnered awards from Broadcast Design Association, Fluxus International Film Festival, Print Magazine, Stuttgart Filmwinter, and a 1998 InVision award highlighted by New Media Magazine. Recent honors include a 2021 Gold Hermes Creative Award for SCMS promotional videos and Finalist status in the American Prize for Composition (Opera/Theatre category) for MelanchoLalaland™. Key publications comprise Experimental Media Voodoo: A Practicum for Digital Art, Music, and Text (2018, Sentia Publishing); Narrative and Spatial Design through Immersive Music and Audio (2020, IEEE VR Workshop); Hybrid Forms and Syncretic Horizons (2011); "Re-Imagining Microtonalities" (2016); and "Gesture and Performance with Kinect" (2014). Exhibitions include Polysemic (Ritter Gallery, 2019), Animated Music Notation (Monash University, 2019), IXION #2 (Psychedelic Film Festival, 2021), and FAU Faculty Biennial (2013).