Edward S. Johnston

MFA, University of Michigan
Post-baccalaureate Certificate, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)
M.Ed., B.A., University of Notre Dame

Edward S. Johnston is a computational artist, designer, and educator whose creative practice examines how recorded experiences and the passage of time can be translated into spatial form through moving image, spatial media, and digital fabrication. His recent Voxelations are digital and physical structures derived from recorded temporal sequences that give spatial form to lived temporal experience.

Johnston’s work was selected for the Lumen 50 and included in the Lumen Prize’s international touring exhibition. His creative work has also been exhibited and presented nationally and internationally through ACM SIGGRAPH, the CVPR Art Gallery, ISEA, Generative Art Venice, CICA Museum, and other venues. His honors include grants from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Jean Paul Slusser Fellowships, a Kean University Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Creative Work, and multiple Kean University faculty grants.

Alongside his studio practice, Johnston conducts collaborative research in extended reality, cultural heritage, and experiential design. He has led and contributed to grant-funded interdisciplinary projects using immersive media to support public engagement, spatial storytelling, and encounters with historical information. This work has received a Viddy Platinum Award, New York Emmy nomination, and Fast Company Innovation by Design finalist commendation. It has also resulted in peer-reviewed presentations and publications internationally.

Website
edsjohnston.com

ORCID
0009-0006-0110-9827

• Animated Digital Design
• Augmented Reality Design
• Web & Interactive Design I

• Computational Art & Design
• Moving Image, Spatial Media & Digital Fabrication
• Extended Reality & Cultural Heritage
• Generative & Emerging Technologies