Joan Truckenbrod

Joan Truckenbrod (born 1945) is known for her work in digital art, and is credited as being one of the earliest pioneers of digital art in the 1960s. She uses sculptural forms in video to explore "the simultaneous experience of multiple realities that is evoked through ritual."

Her work has been featured in international exhibitions, and she has had solo shows in Paris, London, Chicago, and Berlin. She has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship (1997), a Scandinavian-American Foundation Fellowship (1994), and an Illinois Arts Council Grant (1994). She has been credited with being the first Chicago artist to have her art shown on the internet. She has been an instructor at Northern Illinois University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.