James Duesing

James Duesing is a professor emeritus at the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University. His work has developed from traditional hand drawn and early digital animation to 3D, motion capture and augmented reality projects. He has explored animation individually and collaboratively along with its integration into installation, web, eBook and print. 

James Duesing’s work has been exhibited and broadcast throughout the world including: MTV, PBS, Showtime, The Movie Channel, The Sundance Film Festival, Siggraph, The Berlin Video Festival, The World Animation Festival in Los Angeles, Hiroshima International Animation Festival, The Southern Circuit, The Stuttgart International Animation Festival, Shanghai Animation Festival, The Tate Modern and the National Film Theater of London, Film Forum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA in Los Angeles and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has received numerous awards and grants including Creative Capital, Prix Ars Electronica, an American Film Institute Independent Filmmaker Fellowship, an Emmy Award from the National Association of television Arts and Sciences, and several National Endowment for the Arts grants. He is a former Director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for the Arts in Society, an interdisciplinary faculty research center. Prior to that he co-directed CMU’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.