Nick Karpinski

Education

• MFA in Media Arts from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 
• BA in English and Media Studies from Saint Joseph's University

Biography

Nick is a writer, director, and media artist. His creative interests are represented through experimental filmmaking and media arts practice. His academic writing interests surround cinema, media ecology, and expanded media environments.

Throughout Nick's films, he often utilizes hybridity — mixing media, along with fictional and nonfictional narrative devices. His methods put a microscope to human behavior and provide perspectives for how to see the world, while allowing the audience to intimately engage with those perspectives.

In addition to hybrid filmmaking, Nick also engages more directly with experimental filmmaking techniques to shed light on our lived-in media environments. He often uses the blend between ‘nature’ and culture to do so. In today’s world, we cannot separate ‘nature’ from culture, and the ways in which mass media, as cultural phenomena, have informed ‘nature,’ particularly with nostalgic images of the west. Nick explores and plays with those ideas in his experimental filmmaking.

Nick holds an MFA in media arts from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He’s currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film at Miami University Ohio. He’s also an Adjunct Professor at Montgomery College in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

Additionally, Nick is working on various experimental film projects and is writing a chapter about hybrid cinema for the upcoming book, Father of the American Mind: The Influence and Continuing Relevance of Emerson's philosophy on culture. The book will be published by Routledge. Nick is also working on a zine titled, Cinema Without Organs.