John A. Bruce is an educator, researcher, and artist.

His work involves practice research in and through aesthetic and narrative experiments, and is informed through presence, proximity, nonlinear time, participation, queerness, situatedness, care and collective thought and action.

He is Associate Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, The New School, and serves as Co-director of the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program and the Consortium for Trans/disciplinarity. He co-founded the research studio Design for Living and Dying, and his current research studio Collective Fabulation. He is a member of Vaporia Collective.

He directed and produced, in partnership with Pawel Wojtasik, the feature-length non-fiction film End of Life, the result of 6 years spent with 5 people at various stages of dying. He served as strategist for The Light Phone, a simple phone that provokes reflection on our relationships with technology and our ability to be present.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including: New York Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel at Centre Pompidou, International Contemporary Arts London, Museum of the Moving Image, Doclisboa, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Kerala Film Festival, RIDM Montreal, e-flux, Chicago Film Festival, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, PBS, Showtime, VICE, MTV, Park Place Gallery, Equitable Vitrines Los Angeles, among others. He served as production manager and art director for a number of feature films, and platform producer for several transmedia projects addressing social issues. 

John served on the Board of Trustees for the Flaherty Film Seminar. He earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and an MBA in Sustainable Systems from Pinchot (Presidio). He was a 2015/16 Fellow at the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School. Currently, John is a PhD candidate at RMIT.