FILMOGRAPHY

Pherecydes Cave, 2020

Sleight of Hand, 2019

ACME Death Kit, 2018

End of Life, 2017

Ram Dass with Death on His Mind, 2015

Headstand, 2001

Apple Juice, 1990

Selected Exhibitions

2020, Magic and Catastrophe, short film and performance. Co-presented by Studio 10 Gallery and Park Place Gallery, NYC.

2019, Sleight of Hand, short film and performance. Studio 10 Gallery, NYC.

2019, End of Life, feature-film, (UK premiere) International Contemporary Arts, London; and, Syracuse University and Zen Center (co-presenters), screening and panel discussions; e-flux, NYC; and, (Asian premiere) International Documentary & Short Film Festival of Kerala, India.

2018, End of Life, feature-film, (US premiere) The New York Film Festival; and, (Greek Premiere), Thessaloniki Documentary Festival; and, (French Premiere). Cinéma du Réel, Paris (film festivals)Selected Exhibitions

2018, End of Life, feature-film, Museum of the Moving Image, New York City (film series, ReImagine the End of Life)

2018, (IM)MORTALITY, Park Place Gallery. Brooklyn, NY (installation and performance)

2017, End of Life, feature-film (World Premiere). Doclisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; and (North American Premiere). RIDM, Montreal, Canada (film festivals)

2016, End of Life, Equitable Vitrines. Los Angeles, CA (immersive film installation). Documentation video of the experience.

2016, Ethnography in the Expanded Field, GIDEST Lab, New York, NY (curated installation)

2013, Apple Juice (short film), in the series Skateboarding is Not a Crime, Brooklyn Academy of Music (film series)

2011, Vertical Urban Factory, Skyscraper Museum, New York, NY (group show, architecture)

2000-01, Headstand (short film), Houston Film Festival, Houston, TX; MIX, Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY (film festivals)

1997, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Westbeth Theater, New York, NY (projected images for theatre)

1991-1995, MTV and VH1, domestic and international broadcast, regular showings of more than a dozen music videos for various artists such as Sugar

1991, The Feelies, Time for a Witness (commissioned photography)

1991, Apple Juice (short film) on SHOWTIME, cable television

1990, Apple Juice (short film) on The 90’s, Public Broadcasting System (PBS); Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago; Tennessee Film Festival; New York EXPO of Short Film & Video.

Selected Publications

2021, Participatory Design and Social Transformation: Images and Narratives of Crisis and Change, published by Routledge Focus series.

2021, “Uncertain Explorations” chapter. In Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Festival, published by Indiana University Press, editors Scott MacDonald and Patricia Zimmerman.

2020 “Mortality” chapter. In Designing in Dark Times, published by Bloomsbury Press, editors Virginia Tassinari and Eduardo Staszowski.

2017, “Design Strategies for Impact” chapter. In Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design. Editor, Rachel Beth Egenhoefer.

2011, “Transmedia, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Complexity,” TechPlanet Journal, December 2011.

2011, “Mission, Means, and Movement Building,” IndieWire, October 2011.

Selected bibliogrpahy

2019, Elliott, Nicholas. ”Life Before Death: John Bruce and Pawel Wojtasik Interviewed” BOMB, June, 2019.

2019. Milek, Vesna. “How to shape life just before death? asks the professor of design strategies at Parsons” DELO, June 1, 2019. (originally printed in Slovenian)

2018, Fayed, Hanan. ”Design for social impact gathers professionals to make a change” Egypt, Today, November 3, 2018.

2018, Schwob, Olivia. ”Reentry: Start Here” Urban Omnibus, September 2018.

2018, Roniger, Taney. “(IM)MORTALITY: John Bruce and Pawel Wojtasik, with a performance by Matt Freedman” Brooklyn Rail, June 5, 2018.

2018, Goldsmith, Leo. “Get Real” ArtForum, March 2018.

2018, Mintzer, Jordan. “’End of Life’: Film Review Cinéma du Réel 2018,” Hollywood Reporter, April 6, 2018.

2018, Kanakis, Antonis. Featured 30-minute segment with End of Life producer Athina Tsangari, Greek national television broadcast “Radio Arvyla” March 7, 2018.

2017, Small, Christopher. “Doclisboa 2017 report” Sight & Sound, Nov 3, 2017.

2017, Mourinha, Jorge. “A Movie to Put Death Near Sight, Near the Heart” Publico, October 26, 2017.

2016, Williams, Maxwell. “Two Filmmakers Captured the Process of Dying and Turned it into an Immersive Experience” Artsy, September 13, 2016.

2011, Leahy, Krista. “Super-Interesting! Redesigns a Brooklyn Warehouse Into Community Group’s New Green Headquarters” Inhabitat, April 29, 2011.

2011, Jacobs, Karrie. “Made in the U.S.A.?” Metropolis, March 15, 2011.

2010, Chen, Olivia. “Luvmud” Inhabitat, February 12, 2010.

2008, Grist staff. “Bruce Almighty” Grist, March 1, 2008.

2007, Schlesinger, Toni. “Celebrity Homes to Get Green Makeover on Earth Day” New York Observer, March 28, 2007.

2004, Champagne, Christine. “A Little TLC” Out Magazine, March 2004.

2000, Halter, Ed. “MIX 2000: Artsy, Trashy, Queer, and Here to Stay” IndieWire, December 4, 2000.

Recent Conferences • Lectures • workshops

2021, The Social Life of Care conference, “Public Libraries, Unconditional Hospitality, and Shared Leadership”, Cambridge, UK. (Presentation, with Barbara Adams)

2021, MODE: Motion Design Education Summit, “Learning from the End of Life: virtual reality and co-creative pedagogies” (Refereed paper)

2020, Columbia University, Oct 2020. New York, NY. “Life in Proximity to Death: Questions of Design”. A panel with Karla Rothstein (Columbia GSAPP) and John Bruce (Parsons School of Design). Moderated by Maggie Jones (The New York Times Magazine). (Invited Talk)

2020, By Design or By Disaster Conference, Care Beyond Crisis, Bolzano, Italy (online), “Co-creative Practices of the End of Life Doula” (presentation and paper)

2019, Adams, B., Amatullo, M., Bruce, J., Penin, L., Staszowski, E. (2019, Oct). “Striving for Solidarity: A Case Study with The Brooklyn Public Library” Presented at Socially Engaged Design conference, Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus. (Refereed conference paper)

2019, Adams, B., Amatullo, M., Bruce, J., Penin, L., Staszowski, E. (2019, June). “Public Libraries as Engines of Democracy: A Research and Pedagogical Case Study on Designing for Re-entry” Presented at Nordes Conference, "Who Cares?", Aalto, Helsinki, Finland. (Refereed paper)

2019, Italia Innovation, July 2019. Valdagno, Italy. “Mill Towns” (multi-stakeholder workshop)

2019, Biotop Conference, May 2019. Ljubljana, Slovenia. “Design & Policy: Inclusive, participatory decision-making for affordable housing” (multi-stakeholder workshop)

2019, The Commons, March 2019, Melbourne, Australia, “Design Innovation Intensive” (3-day workshop)

2018, Campbell’s Soup Co., November 2018. Camden, NJ. “Design Approach for Innovation” (3-day workshop)

2019, Italia Innovation, January 2019. Verona, Italy. “What is Value?” (lecture)

2018, KMT House and US Embassy Cairo, October 2019. Cairo, Egypt. “Design + Social Impact” (5-day workshop)

2018, Jiangnan University, Oct/Nov 2018, Wuxi, China. “Diffused Transition & Design Opportunities,” Cumulus Conference. Featured presentation, Leadership and Strategy Working Group. “Design, Policy, Change”

2018, Italia Innovation, July 2018. Verona, Italy. “Creative Intervention, Artisanship at Scale” (lecture)

2018, École Boulle, April 2018, Paris. “Together Paris” Cumulus Conference. Featured presentation as part of the Leadership and Strategy Working Group. “Design, Policy, Change.”

2018, Weslyan University, April 2018. Middletown, CT. “End of Life” film (screening with response and discussion led by Mary Beth Quaranta Morrissey)

2018, Bioethical Issues Committee, February 20, 2018. New York City Bar. “Dignity at the end of life” (invited talk and screening of excerpts from the film End of Life)

2017, Italia Innovation, July 2017. Fabrica Campus, Treviso, Italy. “Strategies for Creative Intervention” (lecture)

2017, The DESIS Philosophy Talks, an initiative of DESIS network (and particularly of Ezio Manzini & Virginia Tassinari), March 2017. “Ethnography and the End of Life” (featured presentation)

2017, Parsons School of Design, Feb 2017, New York, NY. “Verge NYC,” conference. “Invisibility: How Not to Be Seen” (talk)

2017, Endwell Symposium, San Francisco, CA. Featured presentation. “Care, Reconsidered” (featured presentation)

2017, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, “Design Management Academy: Research Perspectives on Creative Intersection,” conference. “Tactics for Everyday [Dis]engagement” (workshop)

2016, NEW TALKS, November 2016. The New School, NYC. “Forgetting: End of Life” (featured presentation)

2016, Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought, April 2016. The New School, NYC. “End of Life” Featured seminar presentation as GIDEST Fellow.

2016, Elisava Design and Engineering School, January 2016. Barcelona, Spain. “Narrative and Engagement” (workshop and lecture)

2015, Brooklyn Fashion + Design Accelerator, December 2015. “Local Economies in Oaxaca.” (invited talk)

2015, Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought, November 2015. New York, NY. “Ethnography Dialogues:  A conversation between John Bruce and Nicolas Langlitz” Seminar.

2015, Harmony Institute, May 2015. New York, NY. “Transmedia for Social Impact” (invited talk)

2015, Parsons School of Design, April 2015, New York, NY. “Verge NYC,” conference. Panel expert, “Systems and Complexity” (discussion leader)