John Fillwalk is currently on faculty in the Electronic Art area at Ball State
University. Prior to his appointment at Ball State, he had served in various
capacities in the media arts, including chair of the Film, Video and Digital
Arts Department at Minneapolis College and as education director and faculty
at the Intermedia Arts program at the University of Minnesota. He received both
his MA and MFA from the University of Iowa in Intermedia and Video Art, where
he studied with Hans Breder, an internationally renowned intermedia artist.
Fillwalk works and instructs in a variety of time-based and digital media including
video, installation, digital imaging, interactive art and animation. As an artist,
he has received numerous grants, awards and fellowships. Most recently, he was
appointed the artist in residence at the Center for Media Design at Ball State
University, as part of the $20 million dollar Eli Lilly Media Design Initiative.
His most notable exhibitions include CYNETart in Dresden, Germany; SIGGRAPH
2003 and 2001 International Conference and Art Gallery; InteractivA ’03
at MACAY: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Ateneo de Yucatán, Merida,
Mexico; 2003 and 2002 Digital Art Competition: Beecher Center for Art and Technology,
Butler Institute of American Art; SEAMUS 2004, San Diego, CA; iMOCA: Indianapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art; Digital Sur, Rosalia, Argentina; the Indianapolis
Museum of Art, and ASCI Digital '02 Exhibition, New York Hall of Science, NYC.
John Fillwalk
Electronic Art
Ball State University
email: jfillwalk@bsu.edu