John Mitchell

John D. Mitchell is an interactive media designer, composer, and researcher committed to expanding sensory and creative experiences in the arts. In 1990 Mitchell became a founding member of the Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University. At the Institute Mitchell pioneered the development of the Intelligent Stage, a facility where he continued to work for the next ten years as a composer, director and interactive media designer. In 1999 Mitchell founded ADaPT, the Association for Dance and Performance Telematics, a collective of dance researchers from five prominent universities across the US. From 2000 through 2010 Mr. Mitchell participated in numerous international multi-site performance projects with artists in Amsterdam, UK, Brazil, Australia, Spain and many others. Mr. Mitchell founded DATURA in 2013 to explore interdisciplinary performance at the crossroads of digital and analog arts practices. Current performance projects include work with the interdisciplinary performance with DATURA and other work centered on codes of experience at the confluence of the analog and digital environments. DATURA performs locally and teaches workshops at conferences locally and internationally. John D. Mitchell is an educator, and teaches media for dance, creative practice, and interactive performance courses in the School of Film, Dance and Theater at Arizona State University.