IIACI
Janeann Dill, Ph.D., MFA, MA
Founder and Institute Director
Janeann Dill, Ph.D., MFA, MA
Founder and Institute Director
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The artist is a creative intellectual,
not an inspired idiot. 1956 Brown Report, Harvard University
not an inspired idiot. 1956 Brown Report, Harvard University
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BIO
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An artist and scholar who reaches across the disciplines, Janeann Dill was conferred a
Ph.D. in Media Philosophy from the Swiss-German institutional
brainchild of philosophers Jean-Francois Lyotard and Wolfgang
Schirmacher. The Europäische Universität für Interdisziplinare Studien (European Graduate School) was approved and accredited just months before Lyotard died in
1998 and opened its doors in 1999. Presently in revision of a
forthcoming book, Thought and Timing, Philosophy of Experimental
Animation, Dill earned her M.F.A. from the Experimental Animation
Department at California Institute of the Arts in the School of Film
and Video where Jules Engel and Dr. William Moritz served as her
Mentors, and where she was awarded an Exchange Fellowship with the L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs for a research residency in Paris. Her M.A. and B.A. are from George Peabody College at Vanderbilt
University in the studio arts: Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking.
Awarded an Ahmanson Foundation grant, an Annenberg Foundation Independent Media Grant, a James Irvine Foundation grant, a Mary Lou Boone Grant for Performance in Experimental Animation and Choreography, and three regional Artist-In-the-Schools Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Janeann Dill's film, Paris Is A Woman has been curated nationally and internationally to screen in venues as varied as the Wolfsonian Art Museum to film festivals and received "Best Experimental Short Film" and "Best Directorial Debut in Short Film Category" festival awards. Dill's creative practice and critical scholarship were showcased at the American Film Institute, Silver Screen Theater, Maryland in 2004, Gabe Wardell, Curator.
In addition to her two-year residency at the American Center In Paris, Dill was awarded an artist’s studio/loft in Baltimore in 2003 as an Artist In Residence for the Creative Alliance at the Patterson Theater until 2005. Dr. Dill serves the U.S. Department of Education as referee in Studio Arts for MFA grants for the Jacob K. Javits Program, and Funds for Improving Post Secondary Education (FIPSE: Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts, Film and Media Studies). Serving on the Onsite Jury for SIGGRAPH 2008 Art Gallery Exhibition, "Slow Art" (Lina Yamaguchi, Curator, Stanford University), Dr. Dill also served on the Online Jury for the SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery Exhibition, "Global Eyes" (Vibeke Soresen, Curator, University at Buffalo).
Dr. Dill has presented papers in numerous national and international conferences, most recently as one of three keynote speakers for the Danish Animation Studies Conference, directed by Samuel Ben Israel. D'ANIMA convened at the University of Copenhagen's Film and Cognition Department where she presented her paper: "Philosophy of Experimental Animation: The Question of Cinema in a Fine Art Discipline." A published author focusing on the interdisciplinary art of contemporary experimental animation, “Jules Engel: Film Artist, A Painterly Aesthetic" is a peer-reviewed article published in Animation Journal (Maureen Furniss, Editor-Publisher) that was acknowledged in 1994 by the National Film Board of Canada and Society for Animation Studies as a nominee for the Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambert Award for “Best Scholarly Article on Animation.” Harvard University Film Archive subsequently reprinted this article in 2000 as program notes for a retrospective exhibition of Engel’s work. In 1998, Dill was nominated as Jules Engel’s official biographer by Dr. William Moritz and, subsequently, received a Research Grant from the iotaCenter to author an historically first Artist's Monograph on Engel housed in iota's study center, Los Angeles. Numerous other writings in featured and critical scholarship include: "SIGGRAPH: Immersed in Domes, Falling Bodies and Stereo Vision: Where's the Gravity?" and "Marcy Page: National Film Board of Canada's Paradise Found," fps magazine, Emru Townsend, Editor-Publisher, Canada.
Prior to serving as Institute Director for the Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence, Dr. Dill served as Visiting Faculty and Experimental Animation Artist in the New College (Interdisciplinary Studies) at the University of Alabama where she was faculty of record for Seminar in Creativity (Across the Disciplines); Seminar in Time, Image, Sound; Seminar in Contemporary Animation Studies; Fine Arts 200; Seminar in Interdisciplinary Art.
Awarded an Ahmanson Foundation grant, an Annenberg Foundation Independent Media Grant, a James Irvine Foundation grant, a Mary Lou Boone Grant for Performance in Experimental Animation and Choreography, and three regional Artist-In-the-Schools Grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Janeann Dill's film, Paris Is A Woman has been curated nationally and internationally to screen in venues as varied as the Wolfsonian Art Museum to film festivals and received "Best Experimental Short Film" and "Best Directorial Debut in Short Film Category" festival awards. Dill's creative practice and critical scholarship were showcased at the American Film Institute, Silver Screen Theater, Maryland in 2004, Gabe Wardell, Curator.
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Dill's fine art
is in numerous international and national museum and private
collections and has been exhibited widely. Selected to represent the
American Embassy in Paris at the Festival Internationale des Peintures
de Cagnes sur Mer, she won a PRIX D'OR from a jury of European curators for a monumental painting-poem
(6' X 18'). The PRIX awarded a Retrospective Exhibition of her paintings at the Museé de Cagnes sur Mer for which a choreogapher from the Ivory Coast performed with her round, double-sided dance-drum-poem-painting, "Day and Night, Night and Day Are the Same." In addition to her two-year residency at the American Center In Paris, Dill was awarded an artist’s studio/loft in Baltimore in 2003 as an Artist In Residence for the Creative Alliance at the Patterson Theater until 2005. Dr. Dill serves the U.S. Department of Education as referee in Studio Arts for MFA grants for the Jacob K. Javits Program, and Funds for Improving Post Secondary Education (FIPSE: Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts, Film and Media Studies). Serving on the Onsite Jury for SIGGRAPH 2008 Art Gallery Exhibition, "Slow Art" (Lina Yamaguchi, Curator, Stanford University), Dr. Dill also served on the Online Jury for the SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery Exhibition, "Global Eyes" (Vibeke Soresen, Curator, University at Buffalo).
Dr. Dill has presented papers in numerous national and international conferences, most recently as one of three keynote speakers for the Danish Animation Studies Conference, directed by Samuel Ben Israel. D'ANIMA convened at the University of Copenhagen's Film and Cognition Department where she presented her paper: "Philosophy of Experimental Animation: The Question of Cinema in a Fine Art Discipline." A published author focusing on the interdisciplinary art of contemporary experimental animation, “Jules Engel: Film Artist, A Painterly Aesthetic" is a peer-reviewed article published in Animation Journal (Maureen Furniss, Editor-Publisher) that was acknowledged in 1994 by the National Film Board of Canada and Society for Animation Studies as a nominee for the Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambert Award for “Best Scholarly Article on Animation.” Harvard University Film Archive subsequently reprinted this article in 2000 as program notes for a retrospective exhibition of Engel’s work. In 1998, Dill was nominated as Jules Engel’s official biographer by Dr. William Moritz and, subsequently, received a Research Grant from the iotaCenter to author an historically first Artist's Monograph on Engel housed in iota's study center, Los Angeles. Numerous other writings in featured and critical scholarship include: "SIGGRAPH: Immersed in Domes, Falling Bodies and Stereo Vision: Where's the Gravity?" and "Marcy Page: National Film Board of Canada's Paradise Found," fps magazine, Emru Townsend, Editor-Publisher, Canada.
Prior to serving as Institute Director for the Institute for Interdisciplinary Art and Creative Intelligence, Dr. Dill served as Visiting Faculty and Experimental Animation Artist in the New College (Interdisciplinary Studies) at the University of Alabama where she was faculty of record for Seminar in Creativity (Across the Disciplines); Seminar in Time, Image, Sound; Seminar in Contemporary Animation Studies; Fine Arts 200; Seminar in Interdisciplinary Art.