The City Project Team

Juan Devis, Board Member

Juan Devis is a Public Media artist and producer, whose work crosses across platforms—video, film, interactive media, and gaming. His work, regardless of the medium is often produced collaboratively allowing for a greater exchange of ideas in the production of media and art.  Juan is Director of New Media Production at KCET / PBS Los Angeles, in charge of all original online content and special projects, including: "Webstories: Cultural Journalism in Southern California" and the interactive documentary series, "Departures." 
He has collaborated with a number of non-profit media arts institutions in Los Angeles serving as producer, director and educator. Some of these projects include: Tropical America, an interactive game about the history of Latin America, the TV pilot "Inter-State: Video on the Go," the media literacy project OpenPlay and many others.

Juan was the curator of the first anthology of Colombian Net Art, Es Feo y no le Gusta el Cursor, at La Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango in Bogotá, Colombia. His film, TV, video and interactive work has been screened and exhibited across the globe. In the press, Juan Devis was presented as a major “influencer” in Los Angeles by the LA Weekly news publication, and his online series Departures was celebrated in the Sunday Arts section of the New York Times. He has received numerous grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Macarthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, among others, and was the recipient of the Arnon Milchan Award for his film The Petty Curse of Having this Body. He is president of the board of Freewaves, a non-profit media arts organization, and the project manager for OpenPlay.

Juan Devis holds an MFA from the California Institute of The Arts for Writing and Directing for Film and Television, as well as an undergraduate degree in Film Directing from Emerson College in Boston. Before moving to the U.S., Juan studied Literature and Philosophy at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá.