Jim Johnson, a member of the Painting and Drawing faculty of the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 1970, developed the department's Integrated Media and Computer Imaging programs. He was instrumental in developing the Center for Arts, Media and Performance for the ATLAS Institute and served as it's first Director. Johnson has been making artist's books for over thirty years. His engagement with words and images is apparent in works like "Aurora A-Z", "Impasto" and "A Thousand Words". The book as medium, like the computer, lends itself to procedural compositional methods, which is also central to Johnson's work. His book/installation, "A Thousand Words" is in the Denver Art Museum's Permanent Collection. Other books are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the archives of the Chicago, San Francisco and Otis Art Institutes.