Will Luers

Will Luers, a digital media artist and writer, has been a Instructor in the Creative Media & Digital Culture program since the fall of 2010. In 2008, he was invited to Washington State University, Vancouver as an artist-in-residence to work with students on location-based media projects.  At the CMDC, he currently teaches “Multimedia Authoring”, “Advanced Multimedia Authoring”, “Digital Cinema”, “Digital Storytelling” and “Digital Publishing.”

Will’s current research and artistic interest is in web-based digital cinema and visual art, electronic literature and designing and publishing web-based multimedia books. In general, his interests are in the proliferating forms and expressive possibilities of digital and computational art and writing.

His art works have been exhibited internationally and selected for various festivals and conferences, including the Electronic Literature Organization, FILE(Brazil) and ISEA. In 2016, his collaboration with Hazel Smith and Roger Dean (motions), was selected for the ELO Collection Volume 3. In 2010, he was awarded the The Vectors-NEH Summer Fellowship to work on his database documentary, The Father Divine Project. In 2005, he won Nantucket Film Festival and Tony Cox Award for Best Screenplay.