Electronic and Time-Based Art
Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts, Purdue University
People
John Cessna
John Cessna graduated in 2010 with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Arts in ETB and Photography. Currently, he spends his time between being a part-time Visiting Lecturer in the Photography program at Purdue, a Multimedia Director for Yobi.TV, and developing his travel television show Behind Bars.
John received his BA from Purdue University in 2007 in Film/Video Studies, graduating with Full Honors and Distinction. That year he was also the Outstanding Senior in Interdisciplinary Studies and inducted into Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
John's work centers around the constructed image (both still and moving) influenced by the surreal and suburban. As a graduate student at Purdue, he was a teaching/research assistant for Professor Bill Callison helping write a new textbook, An Introduction to Technical Video Production.
