John A. Bruce is a researcher, film/video artist and educator.

His work involves transdisciplinary artistic- and design-based research, narrative, and systems approaches for addressing complex social issues, and is informed through explorations that engage presence, proximity, nonlinear time, participation, queerness, multi-situatedness, care and collective thought and action.

He is Associate Professor of Design Strategies at Parsons School of Design, The New School, and serves as Co-director of the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program and the Consortium for Trans/disciplinarity. He co-founded the research studio Design for Living and Dying, and his current research studio Collective Fabulation. He is a member of Vaporia Collective.

He directed and produced, in partnership with Pawel Wojtasik, the feature-length non-fiction film End of Life, the result of 6 years spent with 5 people at various stages of dying. He served as strategist for The Light Phone, a simple phone that provokes reflection on our relationships with technology and our ability to be present.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including: New York Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel at Centre Pompidou, International Contemporary Arts London, Museum of the Moving Image, Doclisboa, Thessaloniki Film Festival, Kerala Film Festival, RIDM Montreal, e-flux, Chicago Film Festival, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, PBS, Showtime, VICE, MTV, Park Place Gallery, Equitable Vitrines Los Angeles, among others. He served as production manager and art director for a number of feature films, and platform producer for several transmedia projects addressing social issues. 

John served on the Board of Trustees for the Flaherty Film Seminar. He earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, and an MBA in Sustainable Systems from Pinchot (Presidio). He was a 2015/16 Fellow at the Graduate Institute for Design Ethnography and Social Thought at The New School. Currently, John is a PhD candidate at RMIT.