FACULTY

Joseph Squier
Professor
New Media

squier@illinois.edu | website | CV

Trained as a photographer and painter, for the past two decades Joseph Squier has worked exclusively in the realm of new electronic media. He co-founded the New Media program and his current teaching is situated at the intersection of new media, visual literacy, creativity, writing, and composition. He co-developed and coordinates Writing with Video, an advanced composition courses that fuses the rhetorical practices of traditional writing with contemporary visual media. Squier also serves as Associate Director of the School of Art + Design. The University of Illinois has designated Professor Squier as both a University Scholar and a Distinguished Teacher/Scholar.

Selected Work

Professor Squier's research interests include web-based artwork, CD-ROM pieces, and virtual reality narratives. Squier's seminal website, the place, is still available as part of the permanent collection of the Walker Art Center. He continues to work as an Art Editor for Ninthletter Magazine, and as Content Curator for its companion website. His numerous awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Illinois Arts Council. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Print Magazine, and several books on electronic art. He is also a founding editor of the literary/visual arts journal Ninth Letter, which has received over 20 awards since its inception in 2004.

• the place

• Ninth Letter