Deborah Johnson — also known as CandyStations — is a multimedia artist, visual librettist, and educator.

She creates multifaceted visuals for stage and screen by weaving analog and digital processes, infused with research, experimentation, and heartfelt rigor.

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Deborah has worked with a wide range of artists, including Sufjan Stevens, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Sofi Tukker, M83, Annie B. Parson, Tamar-kali, Ray LaMontagne, Kronos Quartet, Alarm Will Sound, Bang on a Can, and Wilco — with performances at Lincoln Center, Coachella, Disney Concert Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Museum of Modern Art, MASS MoCA, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, The Fillmore, and Wiener Konzerthaus.

Her site-specific performances and installations have been presented at SXSW, Lighthouse ArtSpace, Sundance, 92Y Tribeca, MoMA, Chicago’s Millennium Park, and the Baltimore Museum of Art, with residencies at MASS MoCA, The Experimental Television Center, NYU, Slalom NYC, and The Atlantic Center for the Arts.

As an artist and educator, Deborah presents regularly on performance design, synaesthetics, and the evolving relationship between classical and emerging technologies.

A recipient of a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Film & Video Grant in New Technology, Deborah incorporates 4D volumetric technology and real-time processes in Hildegard, a new opera by Sarah Kirkland Snider, produced by Beth Morrison Projects and directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer.

At Pratt Institute, she teaches Time and Movement alongside Light, Color, and Design as a Professor in Foundation. Deborah currently resides in Brooklyn, NY with her beloved dogter, Xena.

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