John P. Bell
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John P. Bell | |
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 Bell at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., May 2013 | |
| Born | 1 June 1979 Orono, Maine, U.S. |
| Website | www |
John P. Bell (born June 1, 1979) is an American digital artist, educator, and software developer at Dartmouth College and the University of Maine whose work centers on creative collaboration and digital culture.
Bell began developing software to support digital humanities and art at the University of Maine's Still Water lab in 2003. He joined the teaching faculty of University of Maine's New Media department in 2008.
In 2011 he became one of the founding faculty of the University of Maine's Innovative Communication Design and Digital Curation programs.[1] Simultaneously, Bell and his collaborators Richard R. Corey and Bethany Engstrom proposed an unusual doctoral program where the three would work together on a shared research project and collective dissertation studying collaboration in the arts. The three were awarded interdisciplinary PhDs from the University of Maine in 2014 based on this work, and the pattern of critically studying collaborative methods by applying them would become prominent in Bell's later work.