Jay Needham

Associate Professor

SIUC Faculty Since 2003

Contact Information

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Room: 1050D Communications Bldg.

Office Phone: (618) 453-6993

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Education

Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) at California Institute of the Arts, 1989

Interests

Video, film, digital audio production, electro-acoustic music.

Biography

Jay Needham, Associate Professor, and sound artist, radio producer and composer whose works are often concerned with the politics of borders and acts of listening. He is a frequent collaborator with The Association Panamericana para la Concervacion, a rainforest conservation NGO based in The Republic of Panama. Although he primarily centers his creative and critical practice on radio and the transmission arts, screenings of his video series on memory and architecture have appeared at festivals and conferences worldwide. He is currently producing, researching and composing a radio feature on his family’s relation to the origins of the atomic bomb. A live FM performance of that work will premiere in Brussels in October. Cambridge Scholars Press will publish writings and selections of his sound works in Hearing Places in 2007. Prof. Needham, an assistant professor, holds an MFA from The School of Art at California Institute of the Arts.