About
John P. Bell is a software developer and artist at Dartmouth College. His work there includes directing the Dartmouth Resources for Emerging Arts and Media (DREAM) Studio, Associate Director of the Media Ecology Project, and teaching as a Lecturer in Film and Media Studies. His research focuses on collaborative creativity and has produced everything from utilitarian semantic web publishing platforms to aggressively useless installation art. With nine others, he was the co-author of an 85,000-word long book about a 38-character long computer program. Dr. Bell’s research in arts, media, and digital humanities have been funded by organizations including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, as well as Dartmouth multidisciplinary research centers ranging from the Neukom Institute for Computational Science to the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
In addition to his work at Dartmouth, he is also an Assistant Professor of Digital Curation at the University of Maine and Senior Researcher at the Still Water Lab. He holds one of what is believed to be the first three collaborative doctoral degrees ever conferred in the United States, the other two of which are held by the co-authors of their collective dissertation on collaboration in the arts.
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