John D. Mitchell is an interactive performance designer,
composer, and researcher committed to using technology for
expanding sensory and creative experiences in the arts and education.
Mr. Mitchell has worked with artists from many parts the world to design and
create a wide variety of projects ranging from multimedia dance archives to inter-
 active multi-site distributed performances. For much of his career Mitchell has focused
on exploring the use of the computer interactivity in dance performance. In 1987, Mitchell
and choreographer Gary Lund created Movement Initiated Sound Events (MISE), one of
the earliest dance works to use a personal computer and optical sensors in
creating a completely interactive, performer driven sound score.

Over the next three-years Mitchell and Lund produced several dance-driven,
interactive multimedia works for the stage, often collaborating with visual artists and
live musicians. Upon joining Arizona State University in 1990 Mitchell became a founding
member of the Institute for Studies in the Arts. At the Institute, Mr. Mitchell was instrumental
in pioneering the developmentof the Intelligent Stage – both as a concept and a facility – where he
continued to work for the next ten years as a composer, director and interactive media designer.

Mitchell turned his attention to performance telematics in 1999 and founded ADaPT, the Association for Dance and
Performance Telematics. From 2000 through 2006 Mr. Mitchell participated in numerous multi-site performances including
The Viroid Flophouse in collaboration with the Waag Center for Old and New Media, tedre in collaboration with Johannes Birringer
at Nottingham-Trent University, and a recent collaboration with Salud Lopez in the Bauhaus Cathedrals project, part of the closing
ceremonies for feSt - International Theater and Scenic Arts Festival in Seville, Spain. Mr. Mitchell has produced and directed conferences and
workshops such as the IDAT99 dance and technology conference, CELLBYTES 2000 co-directed with Ghislaine Boddington and shinkhansen, London,
the SWIPT workshop in 2001 with Victoria Marks, Douglas Rosenberg, Dan Froot and Scott DeLahunta, and the SDAT04 summer workshop with Yacov Sharir.

In 2006, after 20 years of working in interactive stage performance, Mr. Mitchell co-founded Land Performance Project with Andrew
Marcus to re-examine the roles of technology and the performer in the context of interactive stage performance. LAND employs
technology to reconfigure the space of performance as projection of the body, immersing the performer in a
responsive media environment that becomes part of the performer’s psychic and physical being.

 John D. Mitchell currently co-directs ADaPT (Association of Dance and Performance
Telematics) and teaches interdisciplinary media design and telematics courses
in the Department of Dance at Arizona State University.