Assistant Professor: Media Arts: Sound Art and Experimental Media

Joe Milutis is a media artist and writer whose interdisciplinary work includes experimental sound and radio; video works; new media; experimental narrative; theoretical writings; and various media and literature hybrids.  At USC his primary teaching focus is in audio production, and his curriculum combines work with sound for film, radio documentary, electronic music, and audio art.  He also teaches film studies courses, and hybrid theory-production courses incorporating various electronic media.

Currently, he is working on a large scale audio piece based on the relation between William Carlos Williams’ Paterson and the city of Paterson, NJ.  New Jersey as an Impossible Object documents and instigates the process with video, audio mixes, commentary, and photos.  Recent work has dealt with issues of creative urbanism, everyday life, and the rearticulations of public space utilizing consumer-grade technologies.

His media work and sound design has been featured in a variety of venues, including The Next Big Thing, Resonance-FM, Alt-X, Deep Wireless Festival, Squeaky Wheel, Location One, LA Film Forum, Aurora Picture Show, Video Data Bank, Balagan Experimental Film and Video Series, Black Maria Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, Ocularis, and Bamboo Theater, among others.  He is the author of the recent book Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything (2006, University of Minnesota Press).  Other writing has appeared in  Cabinet, Film Comment, Hyperrhiz, Wide Angle, ArtByte, and Ctheory, among other places.