Jordan Young is an Atlanta-based artist, creative director, and producer connecting art with technology in service of public creativity. For fifteen years, Jordan has employed innovative programming that advances the arts with technology and encourages deeper collaboration across communities, organizations, and the public. His work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Art Papers, the Washington Post, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Melding digital media, interactive design, performance, and stage production, Jordan’s artistic practice imagines playful modes of expression that kindle curiosity and invite spectators to become collaborators. He has most recently been awarded a Creative Residency Fellowship at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences as well as the Fulton County Distinguished Fellowship for the Arts. As a 2024 Fulton County Arts & Culture Futures Lab Artist-in-Residence, he facilitated several community-driven projects centering Atlanta artists and the public. He also participated as Curator and Artist in adjacent cycles of DanceATL’s A.M. Collaborative program, which connects movement artists with artists of other disciplines for cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Through passionate direction of regional programming including the Southern Circuit of Independent Filmmakers and management of partnerships with the National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, and Sundance Institute, he has invested in the careers of hundreds of artists and supported art as a conduit for change in dozens of communities. As Co-founder of Fort Psych Media and Events, Jordan has delivered creative production solutions for culturally impactful clients including Arts & Entertainment Atlanta, Atlanta Film Festival, Charleston Fashion Week, Pullman Yards, and Underground Atlanta.

Jordan is dedicated to supporting the indie media landscape in part by serving on the advisory committees of Indie Media Arts South and the national Indie Media Arts Group, both working to connect and support independent media artists. He has further served as grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, ITVS, Alabama State Council on the Arts, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and United States Artists.

Jordan holds an MA in Media Arts from University of South Carolina with a BA in Production Studies in Performing Arts from Clemson University.