John Fillwalk

A co-founder of the DSL, John Fillwalk is an internationally recognized artist and practitioner of virtual reality and interactive environments. He serves as the Senior Director of the Institute for Digital Intermedia Arts [IDIA Lab] at Ball State University. IDIA Lab is a virtual and augmented reality design studio exploring the intersections of art, science and technology. The lab was founded through a 40 million-dollar grant from Eli Lilly Endowment’s Digital Media Initiative. He has served as president of the Hans Breder Foundation – an international organization to promote the preservation, collection and exhibition of pioneering digital artworks. He has numerous grants, awards, fellowships, publications and presentations.

His artworks have been exhibited internationally infestivals, galleries, museums, and other venues including several SIGGRAPHs, CYNETart, Synthése, 404 Festival, Dutch Design Week, Boston Cyberarts, Virtual Broad Art Museum, ISEA, ASCI, Vidéoformes, Indian Institute of Technology, History Channel, New York Hall of Science, Laval Virtual, Beecher Center for Digital Art and the Beijing Science and Technology Museum.pects of project design, including both front-end web design and back-end architecture and analytics.