JASON JOEL SNELL
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Jason Joel Snell
Adjunct Instructor
- jjs10060@nyu.edu1646-528-3102721 Broadway
Jason Snell utilizes biosensors and musical neurofeedback loops to explore themes of vulnerability, entrainment, and transcendent mental states. As a meditator, programmer, and electronic musician since the mid-1990s, he explores consciousness and transhumanist themes through performances that integrate biofeedback systems. His work merges the fast, intuitive decision-making of art with the in-depth, rigorous research of science.
He earned a Master’s in Interactive Media Studies from NYU in 2023, with studies spanning New York, Berlin, and Shanghai. Currently, he teaches electronic music classes for the Collaborative Arts program at Tisch and conducts musical neurofeedback research in collaboration with the NYU Department of Psychology and UCLA. His thesis work involved developing biofeedback soundscapes designed to guide the brain into creative, subconscious states of mind. He has presented his work at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn, MIT, Imperial College London, the University of Iowa, and the University of Europe in Berlin.
His music career, spanning almost three decades, includes over 180 performances, 16 albums, 33 EPs and singles, and appearances on 45 compilation albums, along with several film scores. He has received over $125,000 in art and innovation grants and awards and has worked extensively with public arts and STEM programs in K-12 schools, creating interactive media and musical neurofeedback curricula.
Related Events
- “Dancing the Algorithm” opens at Jacob’s Pillow, Featured in New York TimesLast week, an exhibition curated by Collaborative Arts Visiting Assistant Arts professor Katherine Helen Fisher opened in the gallery of the Doris Duke Theater at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket, Massachusetts.
- Tisch Faculty Receive 2024 Google Grant Award for “Lamentation: Dancing the Archive”Using a volumetrically captured 3D film of Graham’s original choreography, the team will build an interactive interface that captures audience movements in real time.
- Jason Snell Partners with The Met for Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of TibetMUSICAL NEUROFEEDBACK INTEGRATION FOR TIBETAN BUDDHIST MANDALA EXHIBIT AT METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
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