About me
Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Founding Director of the ASU Media and Immersive Experience (MIX) Center, a 118,000sf emerging media technologies center that he led the development of as a partnership between Arizona State University and the City of Mesa, AZ. Co-founder of Worlds in Play and long-time LDI contributor. In these capacities he is a designer and facilitator of numerous local, regional, and national projects, including art-science-engineering-design collaborations, the Arizona Creative Communities Institute, project-/inquiry-based learning programs, and strategic partnerships with more than thirty partner organizations. As a creative professional, Pinholster’s efforts have centered on immersive experience and media design and technology for performance. He has been an associate artist with Les Freres Corbusier and resident video designer for David Dorfman Dance. His professional design credits include The Pee Wee Herman Show (Broadway/HBO), Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking (national tour/HBO), Current Nobody (Woolly Mammoth), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Center Theatre Group), Most Beautiful Home…Maybe (virtual/touring), and many other productions at off-Broadway, regional, and academic venues, including more than twenty world premieres.
