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 research 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’s films have been publicly screened at venues such as the Millennium Film Workshop, the Galactic Panther Art Gallery, Rhizome DC,the Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum,theMorris Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, the University Film and Video Conference, community art spaces such as Artspace 304, and others.
