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Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts

Brian Franklin

Professor of Expanded Media
Wonsook Kim School of Art
Office
CVA Center For The Visual Arts 214a
Office Phone
(309) 438-7902office
phone
Email
bfrankl@ilstu.eduemail
Website
www.brianpatrickfranklin.comwebsite
  • About
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Biography

Brian Franklin received an MFA from Penn State University and teaches classes in expanded media and digital fabrication at Illinois State University. His interdisciplinary work has been shown in venues ranging from traditional galleries and festivals to impromptu takeovers of public space in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Current Courses

ART 371.001 Digital 3D

CTK 490.009 Directed Projects In Creative Technology

CTK 390.004 Directed Projects/Seminar In Arts Technology

ART 284.001 Expanded Media I

ART 357.001 Expanded Media II

MFA New Media

Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA

BFA Media Arts

State University of New York at Fredonia
Fredonia, NY

Outstanding Service Award

Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2024

University Teaching Grant

Center for Integrated Professional Development
2024

Emerging Administrator Fellow

National Council of Arts Administrators
2023

Bronze Award

United Design Alliance
2021

Bronze Award

United Design Alliance
2021

STA 100

Society of Typographic Arts
2021

Grants & Contracts

Experiment in Interactivity. Center for Integrated Professional Development. Illinois State University. (2024)
Dean's Faculty Professional Development and Travel Award. Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts. Illinois State University. (2021)

Performances and Exhibits

Chaotic and Harmonious
Brian Patrick Franklin
St. Louis Artists' Guild. April 2025 - May 2025
Chaotic and Harmonious
Ladan Bahmani, Brian Patrick Franklin
St. Louis Artists' Guild. April 2025 - May 2025
Midwest Gothic
Brian Patrick Franklin
Burgess Art Gallery. October 2025 - December 2025
24 Hours
Ladan Bahmani, Brian Patrick Franklin
October 14 2024 - December 2 2024
Mind Palace
Ladan Bahmani, Brian Patrick Franklin, Chris Wille
March 4 2024 - April 19 2024
For Those Who Don't Yet Have the Words
Brian Patrick Franklin, Ladan Bahmani
Auburn University. January 2023 - February 2023
Sometime There and Sometimes Not
Ladan Bahmani, Brian Patrick Franklin
2023 - 2023
A Regenerative Future...
Ladan Bahmani, Brian Franklin
August 2022 - September 2022
A moment to Consider Memory
Ladan Bahmani, Brian Franklin
March 2022 - April 2022
Sacred Texts (In These Uncertain Times)
Ladan Bahmani, Brian Franklin
August 2022 - September 2022
The More I See
Ladan Bahmani, Brian Franklin
January 2022 - 2023
Encounters with Incomprehension
Brian Patrick Franklin
The Wrong. 2021 - 2021
Hybrid Praxis - Art, Sustainability & Technology
Brian Patrick Franklin
Artech-International. October 2021 - October 2021
Sacred Texts
Ladan Bahmani, Brian Franklin
September 1 2021 - May 1 2022

Presentations

Building Creative Collaboration Through Interdisciplinary Course Design. AIGA Design Educators Conference: WEAVE. (2025)
Building a Co-Teaching Framework for Experiments in Interactivity. SECAC. (2025)
Experiments in Interactivity. UCDA Design Educators Summit: IMMERSE. UCDA. (2024)
Mind Palace. Mind Palace Artist Talk. Millikin Unversity. (2024)
For Those Who Don't Yet Have the Words. Biggin Gallery. (2023)
Repetition is a Form of Change. Sixteenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices. University of Newcastle. (2022)
Sabbatical Research. Sabbatical Talks. Wonsook Kim School of Art. (2021)
Sacred Texts. Within the Frame. ACM Siggraph SPARKS. (2021)
Sacred Texts. The 9th Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR). International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR). (2021)