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Tom DixonFilm and Media Arts Fellow
Tom Dixon is a sound designer/mixer, educator and filmmaker (under the name Eislow Johnson) from Skokie, Illinois. His practice engages with cinema as a sound art and as a way of navigating and responding to the world's vibration and instability. His films have screened nationally and internationally at festivals and venues such as Prismatic Ground, L'Alternativa, Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Light Matter Film Festival, Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, and Cosmic Rays Film Festival. Films featuring his sound work have screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam, SXSW, Museum of the Moving Image, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, FICUNAM, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, and Open City Documentary Film Festival, among others. Tom has taught in universities, bilingual schools, libraries, forest preserves, co-ops, and living rooms. He recently earned an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MA in Sound Arts and Industries from Northwestern University.
