Julia Heyward
2001 Fellow
New York, NY
Miracles in Reverse (2001)
An interactive hybrid family/music album that tells various versions of the artist’s life story from the point of view of Jesus, Mom and an alien.
Selected Works
Film
Ten Very Short Movies (1996)
360 (1981)
Video
Miracles in Reverse (2001)
Performance
Miracles in Reverse (1997, 1996)
Mood Music (1988)
No Local Stops (1984)
Blue Period (1977)
Accomplishments
Multimedia artist Julia Heyward began her career as a solo performance artist touring America and Europe throughout the 1970s with work that incorporated video, film, monologues and a cappella singing. During the 1980s Heyward’s work expanded into ensemble performances as she formed and toured three multimedia music groups. In January 1981 (a year before MTV’s debut), she premiered 360, a long-form music video. Heyward won a Bessie Award for outstanding performance of the year in 1984 for No Local Stops. Her video works have been featured at various festivals, including the Tokyo International Video Biennial, the Mill Valley Film Festival and the Film-X Film Festival, Los Angeles. She has received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
News
October - November 2006

Julia Heyward and the MegaMeek performed at Location One in New York in October. The performance consisted of elements from a large scale triptych, which included the completed interactive version of Miracles in Reverse as well as work-in-progress versions of part two, Points of View and part three, The Gabriel Frequency. Miracles in Reverse allows Heyward to play her 'life movies' like a musical instrument which evokes sounds and pictures.

July 2006
Julia Heyward performed elements of Miracles in Reverse with several musicians/collaborators at the New York Video Festival in July. The multi-media work is a hybrid family/music album that tells various versions of the artist’s life story from the point of view of Jesus, Mom and an alien.
February - March 2006
Julia Heyward was a featured panelist at a digital media symposium organized by Harvestworks at Eyebeam in New York in February.