Jim Jeffers is an intermedia artist working with computer mediation, performance, photography and video in conjunction with conventional media. He is currently working at the nexus of fantasy and biography (Fantabiography) fabricating artifacts of a personal popular culture. Jeffers likes superheros, airplanes, Volkswagens, Legos, rabbits and television.

He attended the University of California-Santa Cruz, where he received his BA in Art (printmaking and drawing). Subsequently, he studied at NYU, where he received a Master of Arts degree in Studio Art (sculpture and printmaking). Jeffers spent time becoming a better person, cooking for his mother, and making objects in his garage in Encinitas, California (+33° 2' 48.11'', -117° 17' 46.37''). In 2000 he earned his MFA in Visual Art (performance, video, installation, and computer art) at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts; where he taught Introduction to Computer Animation, Introduction to Computer Art and Art Making-Performance.

He was the co-founder of C.R.A.P. (The Conscious Refuse Adoption Project), with Scott Heath (NYC, 1994-96). He exhibits and performs his work in the United States and internationally. Having four recent one-person exhibitions, two in 2005, one in 2007, and one in 2009: Sol Omnibus Lucet (the sun shines upon us all) at The Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA (2005); Short Trips at The Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ (2005); Metus Nihil (fear nothing) at Jean B. King Gallery, Herrett Center for Arts and Science , College of Southern Idaho (2007); and Genii Loci (Ghosts of Protection) at University Gallery, UMass Lowell, Lowell MA (2009). Jeffers’ performance work has been in public for over a decade, with his Superhero Actions (and other performance iterations), as well as, performing in numerous pieces by other artists. Since the early 21st century, Jim has maintained a presence in cyberspace with Fantabiography.com: a shifting blend of digital / computer art, artist portfolio, and truthful lies. In 2007 Jeffers was a Co-Principal Investigator on a $365,000 National Science Foundation grant entitled, Performamatics: Connecting Computer Science to the Performing, Fine, and Design Arts, for finding new ways to engage Computer Science students through the Arts.

Jim is a sometime member of SIGGRAPH of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a founding member of The New Media Caucus of the College Art Association. He has taught at: The School of Education, New York University; The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University; and The Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Rutgers-Newark, just to name a few. Jim is currently an Assistant Professor of Art & Design heading the Web Art & Design area at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, as well as teaching Senior Studio (Fall 2007-Spring 2009). Jim resides mostly in Lowell, Massachusetts with his beautiful wife Jean. He is a founding member of Printer on Prescott Artist Studios in the historic center of downtown Lowell where he works.