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Jason Bernagozzi

Undergraduate Director; Assistant Professor of Cinema Production

Cinema
CW B13A

Background

Jason Bernagozzi is a video artist and technologist whose main body of work seeks to deconstruct and remix the cultural codes embedded within the psyche of an increasingly mediated world. To achieve this, a central feature of their practice is the creation of video software and hardware used as a real-time instrument for improvisational exploration. In particular, they are interested in the emergent properties of image processing as a vehicle for a critical examination of the power structures embedded within information technologies.

Bernagozzi鈥檚 work has been supported through numerous grants and awards from organizations such as the New York State Council for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has been exhibited nationally and internationally at exhibitions such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival in Ann Arbor, MI; the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruk, Germany; the Festival Les Instants Vid茅o Num茅riques et Po茅tiques in Marsaille, France; the Ilman Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea and the Currents New Media Festival in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Bernagozzi is also co-founder of the experimental media art non-profit organization Signal Culture. Since 2014, Signal Culture has given residencies for more than 500 artists, toolmakers and researchers from 27 countries and 36 states. Bernagozzi sees Signal Culture as an extension of their practice, facilitating the opportunity to hack, program and reimagine the purpose of various technologies in a fluid, real-time studio that encourages cross-disciplinary investigation and a critical relationship to mass media. In their role at Signal Culture, they are the author of the Signal Culture Modular Apps, a suite of video processing applications that are used by artists and in university curricula all over the world.

Education

  • MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts, Alfred University
  • BFA in Photography and New Media, Kansas City Art Institute

Research Interests

  • Video Hardware and Software Development
  • Mycology
  • Languages
  • Critical Theory and New Materialism
  • History of Technology, Image Processing and Glitch Art

Teaching Interests

  • Hybrid Studio Systems
  • Interactivity for Performance and Installation
  • Designing for Emerging Media Distribution Platforms
  • Media Archeology

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