Bill Jones
is a photographer and installation artist. His work is concerned with
the subject of light as physical phenomena and metaphorical figure, and
inhabits the liminal spaces created by the conjunction of performance,
installation and object art. Jones was a seminal figure in the Vancouver
School of conceptual photography, along with
such artists as Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace and Jeff Wall. Recently
he collaborated with Merrill
Garnett on the publication : First
Pulse: A Personal Journey in Cancer Research,
and continues to collaborate with him on numerous publications and
projects. Jones' work has been shown widely in the US
and internationally, including a mid-career retrospective, Bill
Jones: 10 Years of Multiple-Image Narratives,
at the International Center of Photography; PS1 Contemporary Art
Center; The Brooklyn Museum; The Jewish Museum; Rotunda Gallery; Sandra
Gering Gallery; Lombard-Freid Fine Arts; Amy Lipton Gallery; White
Columns (all in NY); San Francisco MOMA; The High Museum, Atlanta; The
Milwaukee Art Center; Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris; Kettle's Yard,
Cambridge, UK.Jones' 2003 exhibition Nite
Nite, atSandra
Gering Gallerywith
musician collaborator Ben
Neillpremiered a
new chapter in the development of midi-controlled video. More recent
collaborations include Palladio,
an interactive, playable movie based on the novel by Jonathan Dee. Palladio
premiered in Glasgow in Feb 2005 and in New York at the
Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater in March.
Visit PalladioMovie.com
for more info. His latest work was featured in Playvision
at the World
Financial Center in May 2006 -- watch this
page for updates.
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PERFORMANCE:
"XIX" Rocks
Monkeytown! and elsewhere...
"XIX" a new networked
project from Bill Jones & Ben Neill
ANNOUNCING
the first NYC
performances ofXIX, a new project of
musician Ben
Neill and artist Bill Jones
based on samples of 19th
century music and art. The music from their networked band combines
ambient electronic sound from Neill's mutantrumpet
mixed with deep live grooves fromJohn
Conte on electric bass, and Jim Mussen
on drums/percussion.
In XIX,historical
audio samples are digitally manipulated into ambient loops which form
the basis
for each song. Bill
Jones has created a new
set of interactive video pieces for XIX
based on 19th century art works. Over the past several
years, Neill
and Jones have developed a
playable form of cinema in which they play video
images live from their instruments through interactive VJ
software.
New
applications in both
the audio and video fields have opened up a new level of spontaneity
and
improvisation in the live performance of these pieces. XIX explores
the dynamic, expressive possibilities of new digital technologies while
simultaneously drawing connections with history.
participating artists:
Stephen
Andrews, Ken Bass, Janet Bellotto, Dana Claxton, Tom Dean, Stan
Denniston, Sarindar Dhaliwal, Reuel Dechene, Luis Jacob, Bill Jones,
Micah Lexier, Bernie Miller, Sheila Moss, Lisa Neighbor, Ed pien,
Chrysanne Stathacos, Sharon Switzer, Tom Whiten.
November
26, 2005 - January 29, 2006
Tom Thompson Memorial Gallery
840 First Avenue West
Owen Sound, Ontario press
release (html); press
release(word doc)
Thanks for your support for WPS1.org. Unfortunately, the project has been discontinued, but if you liked WPS1, there’s a new internet radio station run by many of the same people called Art International Radio (ArtonAir.org) that has access to most of WPS1’s archived content. It’s all free, it’s all on demand; take a look.
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