University of Florida

Faculty Member, Digital Worlds Institute

Director, Digital Worlds Institute; Professor of Digital Arts & Sciences; Professor of Music

Colleges of Fine Arts, Engineering and Journalism & Communications

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      James Oliverio is internationally known as an educator, creative artist and digital media producer, and is a frequent keynote speaker and consultant to education programs. He is currently Executive Director of the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida with full professorships in both Music and Digital Arts & Sciences. He holds five Emmy Awards from the Atlanta chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, along with numerous national grants and commissions.
        Additional recognition for Oliverio and the UF Digital Worlds Institute include the "Innovative Program Award" chosen from a national field of higher education programs by the International Digital Media and Arts Association (2008);  the “Peoria Prize for Creativity in the Arts & Sciences”  for producing the globally-distributed performing arts collaboration entitled “Hands across the Ocean” (2005), and the “Most Courageous and Creative” Award in the High Bandwidth Challenge at the 2001 Global SuperComputing Conference. Oliverio’s work in global distributed collaboration has been featured on CNN International and the BBC.
      Oliverio has partnered with research institutions around the world to create "In Common Time" (ICT), a series of globally-distributed performing arts collaborations. ICT has been featured in specially commissioned real-time events including “Non Divisi” for the Internet2, at the Los Angeles Convention Center for SIGGRAPH 2005, and at the
2006 College Music Society National Conference.
In addition to performances of his original music scores by ensembles including the Cleveland Orchestra and the symphonies of Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Oliverio has produced for and collaborated with Wynton Marsalis, Jazz @ Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet and the Film Society of Lincoln Center. 
        Before coming to the University of Florida, Oliverio served as the Artist in Residence at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and also as Founding Director of AudioLab in the Graphics, Visualization and Usability (GVU) Center in the Georgia Tech College of Computing.

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