Bonnie L. Mitchell
About Bonnie L. Mitchell
- Affiliations
- Bowling Green State University (BGSU), School of Art, Digital Arts, Professor
- Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Computer Graphics, Professor
- University of Oregon, School of Architecture and Allied Art, Art Department
- Central Wyoming College
- Location
- Bowling Green, Ohio, United States of America
- Bio
2026
Bonnie Mitchell is currently a Research Professor and Emeritus Professor of Digital Arts at Bowling Green State University, in the USA. She currently dedicates her research and development time and focus to helping the ACM SIGGRAPH community. She is the Project Director of the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive which consists of a physical and online archive. Mitchell is also the Chair of the History and Archive Committee and a member of the SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee where she serves as the Coordinator of the ACM SIGGRAPH DAC SPARKS online lecture series and their webmaster. Since 2013, she has been a co-director of the ISEA Symposium Archives and co-founder of the Globally Connecting New Media Art Archives initiative. Mitchell has served as a Co-Chair of the Summit on New Media Art Archiving in 2020 in Montreal, 2022 in Barcelona, 2024 in Brisbane, 2025 in Seoul and 2026 in Dubai. Bonnie Mitchell is also a new media artist and her artworks explore spatial and experiential relationships to our physical, social, cultural, and psychological environment through interaction, abstraction, and audio. Her creative practice focuses on development of physically immersive environments and abstract visual music installations and animations that have been shown in hundreds of venues world-wide.
SIGGRAPH 2020
Bonnie Mitchell’s research and creative interests include creating visual music animation and interactive immersive installation art, developing digital humanities archives and engaging in cross-disciplinary collaboration. Ms. Mitchell’s artwork explores perception and natural phenomena through experiential relationships to our physical and psychological environment. Ms. Mitchell’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as SIGGRAPH, ISEA, Ars Electronica, and many more. She is currently writing a book on animation as a fine art form for Bloomsbury Press in London. Besides teaching, Bonnie Mitchell is the president and art director of CreativeMyndz Multimedia Studios in Bowling Green which produced the Core Concepts in Art series, Buildings Across Time DVD, Art Showcase DVD and the Core Concepts in Humanities series published by McGraw-Hill and Glencoe in NY and LA. She also produced the Gateways to Art multimedia materials published through Thames and Hudson in London. Bonnie Mitchell also served on the Executive Board of ISEA and SIGGRAPH, curated the 2006 SIGGRAPH and GRAPHITE exhibitions and has been a member of numerous professional international committees.
SIGGRAPH 2001
Bonnie Mitchell is an Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University in the School of Art, Division of Computer Art. She currently teaches 3D modeling/animation, and interactive multimedia (CD and WWW). She received her MFA in Visual Design/Computer Art from the University of Oregon in 1992.
SIGGRAPH 1997
Bonnie Mitchell is an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University where she teaches Computer Graphics in the Art Media Studies Department. She received her MFA in Visual Design with an emphasis in Computer Art from the University of Oregon in 1992. She is currently teaching 2D and 3D computer animation, interactive multimedia which include Internet technologies and computer graphics theory. She is best known for the creative development of numerous collaborative Internet art projects including the International Collaborative ChainArt Project, Digital Journey, Diversive Paths, and ChainReaction. These works have won many awards and have been published in numerous journals and books worldwide ChainReaction was exhibited at SIGGRAPH 95 and ISEA 95 and presented at the College Art Association, the National Art Academy, and typoMedia in Frankfurt Germany.
Bonnie Mitchell is currently a member of the SIGGRAPH Education and Communications Committee where she coordinates the Online Education Directory, the Art and Design Resources, the Career Resources and other SIGGRAPH WWW Projects. She is the art director of the redesign of the SIGGRAPH WWW site. She has presented at SIGGRAPH, College Art Association, SIGSCE, SIGGRAPH, Chicago Woman’s Art Caucus, RIT, the National Art Academy, Foundation Art Theory Education Conference, ISEA, typoMedia, as well as numerous other conferences on issues related to interactive design and collaborative art on the Internet. She is an active computer artist and her work is currently on tour in the UK as part of the “ArCade II” Show.
SIGGRAPH 1996
Bonnie Mitchell is an assistant professor at Syracuse University where she teaches Computer Graphics in the Art Media Studies department. Her areas of interest are interactive multimedia design, 3d and 2d computer animation, and digital imaging. She received her MFA in Visual Design – Computer Art at the University of Oregon in 1992. She is internationally known for development of numerous collaborative art projects including: the International Collaborative ChainArt Project, Digital Journey, Diversive Paths, and ChainReaction. These works have won awards and have been published in numerous journals and books worldwide. Bonnie Mitchell is also the Director at Large on the SIGGRAPH Executive Committee where she coordinates projects such as the WWW Education Directory, the Art and Design Resources, and the WWW Career Opportunities. She is coordinator of the SIGGRAPH Art and Design Online Forum and is co-chair of the SIGGRAPH Multimedia Committee. She has presented at numerous conferences on issues related to interactive design and collaborative art on the Internet. She is an active computer artist and recently exhibited an interactive computer art installation at the Artemisia Gallery in Chicago.
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SIGGRAPH Conference Organizing Committee Positions
- Chair
- SIGGRAPH 2023: 50th SIGGRAPH Conference Celebration
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Electronically Mediated Performances
- SIGGRAPH 2023: Retrospective
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Charles A. Csuri: Beyond Boundaries (1963-present)
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Intersections
- Committee Member
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2016: Art Gallery: Mediated Aesthetics
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Charles A. Csuri: Beyond Boundaries (1963-present)
- SIGGRAPH 2003: CG03: Computer Graphics 2003
- SIGGRAPH Asia 2017: Art Gallery: Mind-Body Dualism
- SIGGRAPH 2005: Threading Time
- SIGGRAPH 2004: Synaesthesia
- DAC Online Exhibition 2015: Altered Books – Digital Interventions
- SIGGRAPH 2007: Sketches
- Jury Member
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Emerging Technologies
- SIGGRAPH 2002: Computer Animation Festival
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Electronically Mediated Performances
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Computer Animation Festival
- SIGGRAPH 2005: Emerging Technologies
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Sketches
- SIGGRAPH 2006: Charles A. Csuri: Beyond Boundaries (1963-present)
- SIGGRAPH 2005: Threading Time
SIGGRAPH Organization Committee Positions
Conference Contributions
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- Experiences
SIGGRAPH Organization Contributions
- Community Events Moderated
- 2022 Panel: Pioneers of Digital Art and Animation
Other Information
- Roles
- ACM SIGGRAPH Village Presenter
- Archive Contributor
- Archive Management
- Art Show Artist
- Art Show Collaborator
- Art Show Collection Curator
- Art Show Jury Member
- Art Show Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
- Art Show Organizing Committee Member
- Art Show Reviewer
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Computer Animation Contributor
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Education Program Presenter
- Emerging Technologies Jury Member
- History Chair
- History Contributor
- Performance Jury Member
- Retrospective Presenter
- Talks (Sketches) Jury Member
- Talks (Sketches) Organizing Committee Member
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