Julianna (Jules) Johnston is an interdisciplinary artist and educator working across interactive media, installation, performance, and participatory workshops. Their practice harnesses play and embodiment to deconstruct personal and collective relationships to digital interfaces and surveillance technologies. Jules holds a BFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design (2018) and an MFA in Media Arts from University of California, Los Angeles (2024). Their work has been presented nationally and internationally at venues and festivals including the Slamdance Film Festival (Park City, UT), Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, Greece), Choreographic Coding Lab (São Paulo, Brazil), Theater MiTu (Brooklyn, NY), Rathaus für Kultur (St Gallen, Switzerland), Studio Hüette (Berlin, Germany), and Human Resources Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), among others. They were selected to participate in the 2025 MAXmachina Laboratory with Media Arts Exploration and are a recipient of an Art at the Frontier Grant from the Studio for Creative Inquiry. They have been an artist-in-residence at DOGO Residenz für Neue Kunst, Crosstown Arts, MASS Gallery, and the Vermont Studio Center. They are currently an Assistant Professor of New Genres and Studio Art at Kenyon College. Previously, they served as Director of Education at The Oxbow School Summer Art Institute and as an Adjunct Professor in the UCLA Design Media Arts Department.
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