Rate My Professor Joey Bargsten

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).