John Craig Freeman

John Craig Freeman
Bio: 
John Craig Freeman is a public artist with over twenty years of experience using emergent technologies to produce large-scale public work at sites where the forces of globalization are impacting the lives of individuals in local communities. His work seeks to expand the notion of public by exploring how digital networked technology is transforming our sense of place. He has produced work and exhibited around the world including in Venice, Istanbul, Xi'an, Belfast, Los Angeles, Beijing, Zurich, New York City, Taipei, São Paulo, Warsaw, Kaliningrad, Miami, Bilbao, Havana, Atlanta, Calgary, Buffalo, Boston, Mexico City, London and San Francisco. In 1992 he was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has had work commissioned by both Rhizome.org and Turbulence.org. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, El Pais, Liberation, Wired News, Artforum, Ten-8, Z Magazine, Afterimage, Photo Metro, New Art Examiner, Time, Harper's and Der Spiegel. Christiane Paul cites Freeman's work in her book Digital Art, Second Addition, as does Lucy Lippard in the Lure of the Local, and Margot Lovejoy in Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age. His writing has been published in Rhizomes, Leonardo, the Journal of Visual Culture, and Exposure. Freeman is currently an Associate Professor of New Media at Emerson College in Boston.
Course of Life
Area(s) of Expertise: 
digital media
Education: 
MFA University of Colorado
BA University of California San Diego
Mentors and Inspiration: 
Freeman writes
“If Andy Warhol set out to create a distinctly American art form in the twentieth century
I identify with those who seek to create a distinctly global art form in the twenty-first.”
Location
City or Town: 
Boston
State or Province: 
MA
Country: 
United States