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  • Product Manager & Art Director, Embodied Philosophy, www.embodiedphilosophy.com

  • Video & Photography Studio Art Instructor 

  • Spiritual Art Workshop Teacher

  • Co-founder, Rundblick Media Production, Berlin, Germany,

 

 

Education

 

Teachers College, Columbia University
Major: Art and Art Education

Degree: Doctor of Education in the College Teaching of Art , 2018

  • Dissertation: “The Natural Power of Intuition: Exploring the Experience of Intuition in the Practice of three Visual Artists and three Business Executives”

  • Research interests: intuitive processes in art practice, art and technology, hybrid media forms, identity constructions, integrated experiential learning, art-based research, media education pedagogies


The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in partnership with Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA
Major: Studio Art, with a focus on Video, Photography and Performance Art
Degree: Masters of Fine Arts, 2009

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
Major: Visual Communication, with a focus on New Media Art
Degree: Diploma Designer, 2006

 

Cim Data College of Multimedia, Berlin, Germany

Major: Screen Design

Degree:  Multimedia Expert Certificate, 1999

 

 

Exhibitions 

 

  • Elements of a Composite Entity, Myers Media Art Studio, New York, NY, 2018

  • September Primer, Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA, 2017

  • A Group Thing, Thomas Young Gallery, Boston, USA, 2016

  • Experiences of (Dis)Connection, Macy Gallery, Teachers College Columbia University, 2016

  • Oblique Rain, Galeria Spatium, Lincoln, USA and Carris Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 2015

  • Studio Works, Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, US, 2015

  • Satellite, Khaki Gallery, Boston, USA, 2014

  • Studio Works, Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA, 2014

  • Spectrum featured by Fourm, Freecandy, Brooklyn, New York, USA 2013 

  • September Primer, Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA 2013 

  • Studio Work, Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA 2013

  • CoWorkers Project, Art Series at Subtwine, New York, USA 2013

  • Advanced Studio, Macy Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, USA 2012

  • QueerMe: 2011 Art & Gender Politics NYC, The Center, New York, USA 2011

  • In Between, Penelec-Megahan-Bowman Art Galleries, Allegheny College, Meadville, USA 2010

  • We Must Indeed All Hang Together, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC, Chicago, USA 2009

  • Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, USA2009

  • This Is Not Happening, Mills Gallery, BCA, Boston, USA 2009

  • The Human Animal Project, Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, USA 2008

  • Female Film Artists, shorts curated for conversation, Brattle Theater, Boston, USA 2008

  • After the Orgie: A Tribute to Carolee Schneemann, Studio Soto, Boston, MA, USA 2007

  • November, Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA, USA 2007

  • Mediating the Mediated Gaze, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, USA 2007

  • The Technology Show, SMFA, Boston, MA, USA 2007

  • Hijacking the Future, Donnelly Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA, USA 2007

  • Mash up!, Doran Graduate Gallery, MassArt, Boston, MA,  USA 2007

  • Zip&Collages, SMFA, Boston, MA, USA 2006

  • Pretty SMFA, Donnelly Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA, USA 2006

  • Long Museums Night, Museum of Communication, Berlin, Germany 2006

  • 10 Feet Long, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2005

  • 3 Media, part of the Making the Living, Living a Dream Conference, UC Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2005

  • Ngierof, Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2004

  • Live Video Mystery Theatre, the Eye, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2004

  • Disappearance, Opel Exhibition House, Berlin, Germany 2004

 

Art & Film Festivals

 

  • Berlin's Unknown Filmmakers, the Hole, Berlin, Germany, 2016

  • OpenArt! 10th International Performance Festival, Beijing, China 2009

  • Pärnu International Film & Video Festival, Estonia 2008

  • TLV Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel 2008

  • Free Fall Festival, Squealing Pig, Boston, USA 2008

  • MIX Film & Video Festival, New York, NY, USA 2007

  • New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY, USA 2007

  • Viper Basel - International Festival for Film Video & New Media, Basel, Switzerland 2006

  • Exground Film Festival, Wiesbaden, Germany 2005

  • Mediatonic II Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2005

  • Mediawave International Art Festival, Gyoer, Hungary 2005

  • Nacht der Tausend Traurigkeiten Film Festival, Berlin & Zürich, Germany &  Switzerland 2004

  • Kassler Documentary Film Festival, Kassel, Germany 2004

 

Publications

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Jagtiani, J. (2021). What is Queer? Tarka - On Queer Dharma, 5(1), 21–28. https://www.embodiedphilosophy.com/journals/5-on-queer-dharma/

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Jagtiani, J. (2021). What is Psychopomp? Tarka - On Death, 4(1), 39–43. https://www.embodiedphilosophy.com/journals/4-on-death/

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Jagtiani, J. (2020). What is Ecology? Tarka - On Ecology, 3(1), 16–21. https://www.embodiedphilosophy.com/journals/3-on-ecology/https://www.embodiedphilosophy.com/journals/3-on-ecology/

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Jagtiani, J. (2020). What is Virtual Reality? Tarka - On Illusion, 2(1), 22–26. 

\https://www.embodiedphilosophy.com/journals/2-on-illusion/https://www.embodiedphilosophy.com/journals/2-on-illusion/

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Jagtiani, J. (2019). Establishing Intuitive Faculties: Receptivity, Awareness, and Interpretation. In J. Liebowitz (Ed.), Developing Informed Intuition for Decision-Making (pp. 47–67). Taylor & Francis.

 

Jagtiani, J. (2018). The Natural Power of Intuition: Exploring the Formative Dimensions of Intuition in the Practices of Three Visual Artists and Three Business Executives (Order No. 10812302). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (2047520466). Retrieved from http://eduproxy.tc-library.org/?url=/docview/2047520466?accountid=14258

 

Jagtiani, J. (2017). Art Critique: Torture or Nurture? In Art School Critique 2.0 - Teachers College, Columbia University Symposium Proceedings Nov 18-19 | 2016 (pp. 64–68). Annandale, New Jersey: Ragged Sky Press.

 

Jagtiani, J. (2016). Memories of Art Education in West Germany before and after 1945: My Mother’s Experience. Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art, 5(2), 189–198. https://doi.org/10.1386/vi.5.2.189_1

 

 

Conference Presentations

 

Jagtiani, J. (2019). Recalling Natural Powers: Exploring Dimensions of Intuition in SArt Practice. Presented at The National Art Education Association National Convention, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Jagtiani, J. and Ko, Sohee (2017). Rise of Art – A Collaborative Art-Making Experience that Explores Opportunities of Merging New Media Forms with Traditional Techniques in our Present-Day Studio and Teaching Practice. Presented at The College Art Association Conference, New York, New York.

 

Jagtiani, J. and Vandermaas, Caitlyn (2017). A Teacher and Student Account: What Happens When Adding a Distance-Learner to a Face-to-Face Studio Art Education Class?. Presented at The National Art Education Association National Convention, New York, New York.

 

Jagtiani, J. and Ko, Sohee (2017). Rise of Art – A Collaborative Art-Making Experience that Explores Opportunities of Merging New Media Forms with Traditional Techniques in our Present-Day Studio and Teaching Practice. Presented at The National Art Education Association National Convention, New York, New York.

 

Jagtiani, J. (2016). Art Critique – Torture or Nurture?. Presented at Art School Critique 2.0 Symposium, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, New York.

 

Jagtiani, J. (2015). Memories of art education in West Germany before and after 1945: My mother’s experience. Presented at The History of Art Education Conference, Teachers College Columbia University, New York, New York.

 

Jagtiani, J. (2015). Intuition as an Aspect of Knowledge-Making. Presented at The Graduate Research in Art Education Conference, Columbus, Ohio

 

 

Interviews

 

Jagtiani, J. (2016, February 18). Schools Get Creative With Technology. Retrieved from http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2016/02/schools-get-creative-with-technology/

 

Jagtiani, J., & Koo, S. (2016, February 17). Interview with Jesse Jagtiani and Sohee Koo: Macy Gallery Exhibition. Retrieved from https://macythingspace.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/interview-with-jesse-jagtiani-and-sohee-koo-macy-gallery-exhibition/

 

Jagtiani, J. (2010). InBetween: (re)negotiating ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Retrieved from http://darrenleemiller.com/category/curatorial-and-gallery-director-work/exhibitions-curated/inbetween-renegotiating-ethnicity-gender-and-sexuality/

 

 

Invited Talks / Respondent

 

2016 - President Forum, Respondent. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

2015 - Creative Technologies Symposium, Respondent. Teachers College, New York, NY

2010 - New Media Art – The Digital Era. Lecturer. Chester College, Chester, MA

2009 - Art and Technology. Lecturer. The Art Institute (AIB), Lesley College, Boston, MA

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Teaching

 

2014-2018

Studio Art Instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY

 

  • “Video Art”

  • “Video for Educators”

  • "Studio Work: Digital Media"   

  • "Introduction to Digital Photography"

  • "Advanced Photography"


2010
Substitute Art Instructor for the Prozdor Program at Hebrew College, Newton, MA

 

2009
Adjunct Professor at the New England Institute of Art, Boston, MA

 

  • Principles of Photography”

  • Digital Photography

  • Post Production


2009

Post Graduate Teaching Fellow, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

 

  • Live-Video Performance - Power Dynamics in the Contemporary

 

2007-2009

Graduate Teaching Fellow, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

 

  • Video Art I

  • Beginning Digital Photography

 

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