jonCates
Chair && Associate Professor
Film, Video, New Media and Animation department
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
EDUCATION
2006 - 2009:
Media Art Histories MA, Danube University (Krems, Austria)
1997:
Studio Art BFA Illinois State University (Bloomington/Normal, United States)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
2012:
DITHER_DØØM: AN INTRØ TØ MA¥AN NEW MEDIA at Oliver Francis Gallery (Dallas, United States)
Formalism & Glitch curated by Rhizome.org (New York, United States)
ENDE TYMES FESTIVAL of NOISE, EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC, FILM AND VIDEO ART curated by Bob Bellerue (New York, United States)
DITHER D00M: A Retrospective of Mayan New Media curated by Patrick Quinn, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
Downcast Eyes organized by twohundrededfiftysixcolors and TAGTEAM, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, United States)
[STREET TEAM] curated by Alfredo Salazar-Caro (Mexico City, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Glasgow, Brussels)
Restaging the Readymade panel organized by Nathaniel Stern, College Art Association Conference (Los Angeles, United States)
2011:
Caves and Laptops curated by Nate Hitchcock, Dain Oh and Jordan Rhoat (Mother Neff S.P, Moody, Texas)
Glitched, Cracked, and Dirty Media on Empyre moderated by Patrick Lichty (Internet, International)
guest micro-blogger on remixthebook curated by Mark Amerika and Rick Silva (Internet, International)
d1sc0nN3ct: The art of the glitch curated by Ania Szremski, Townhouse Gallery (Cairo, Eygpt)
Machinima exhibition curated by Isabelle Arvers, Festival Gamerz at ARCADE (Aix-en-Provence, France)
remixthebook curated by Mark Amerika and Rick Silva (Internet, International)
GL1TCH.US performance lecture, ENEMY (Chicago, United States)
Media Art Futures lecture, RE:WIRE Media Art Histories Conference (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Southbridge performance, The Empty Bottle (Chicago, United States)
BROKEN RECORDS experimental lecture, GLI.TC/H 2011, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
Glitch Art panel discussion, GLI.TC/H 2011, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
File Format curated by Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400 at The University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Glitch - video/new media exhibition, CentralTrak (Dallas, United States)
!NV0(C)4XXX!0N555: an artist's talk on Computer Witchcraft in the context of Glitch Art, CentralTrak (Dallas, United States)
MAN, SUCH AS WE KNOW HIM, IS A COMPUTER curated by Synchronicity Space in Mastodon Mesa at The Pacific Design Center (West Hollywood, United States)
BYOB Chicago curated by Brian Khek, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, United States)
BYOB Chicago curated by Brian Khek and Nicholas O'Brien, Kunsthalle New (Chicago, United States)
2010:
BAD NEW FUTURE CREW performance, GLI.TC/H AFTERPARTY (Chicago, United States)
GLI.TC/H panel discussion, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Glitch: Investigations into the New Ecology of the Digital Age curated by Nick Briz, Eye & Ear Clinic (Chicago, United States)
Art in Age of Infinite Reproducibility panel discussion, threewalls (Chicago, United States)
SPEED SHOW vol.4: Super Niche curated by: Aram Bartholl, 90 Bowery Internet Cafe (New York, NY)
Southbridge performance, neon marshmallow festival, The Viaduct (Chicago, United States)
The Material and the Code: Disciplinary Crossings of Cinema and New Media, University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
WIKITOPIA: Hong Kong's First Tinyfest on Collaborative Future by Videotage (Hong Kong)
PhD Presentation Respondent to Andrew Johnston (PhD candidate, University of Chicago) "Coding Patterns: The Algorithmic Mechanisms of John Whitney, Larry Cuba and Early Digital Animation" (Chicago, United States)
Experimental Music Mondays performance, Myopic Books (Chicago, United States)
Live Cinema Summit, Columbia College Chicago as part the College Art Association conference New Media Caucus (Chicago, United States)
SPEED SHOW vol.1 : TELE-INTERNET Curated by Aram Bartholl, Kottbusser Damm 103 (Berlin, DE)
2009:
GOTO10, MAKE ART 2009 What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art exhibition, Maison de l'Architecture (Poitiers, France)
RE:LIVE Media Art Histories Conference, Leonardo/ISAST (International Society for Art, Science and Technology) (Melbourne, Australia)
SLSA 2009 Annual Conference: Decodings (Atlanta, United States)
TURN*ON, Artivistic 2009 (Montreal, Canada)
Chicago Underground Film Festival (Chicago, United States)
Hyperkewl, barbara&barbara Gallery (Chicago, United States)
MAGIC MATRIX MIXER MOUNTAIN, Lampo (Chicago, United States)
Guest Lecture, The University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, United States)
Upgrade! Berlin, Art Claims Impulse Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
Visiting Artist, Interactive Arts and Media Department ofColumbia College (Chicago, United States)
New Media Art & Affect, Bridge Art Fair (New York, United States)
New Media Caucus, College Art Association (Los Angeles, United States)
Play Up! Exhibition, Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, United States)
Motion Graphics Festival, Columbia College (Chicago, United States)
dorkbot Chicago, ENEMY (Chicago, United States)
2008:
Ahh. . . Decadence! Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
DOCAM's Media In Motion Symposium, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
dorkbot Chicago, DEADTECH (Chicago, United States)
IX Exhibition, DEADTECH Gallery (Chicago, United States)
IX by H3X3N featured on Rhizome.org front page, Rhizome.org (New York, United States)
IX by H3X3N included in Rhizome.org Art Base, Rhizome.org (New York, United States)
Guest Lecture, The University of Art and Industrial Design (Linz, Austria)
Hacked Raven Input, Quitch (Linz, Austria)
No End in Sight Exhibition panel discussion, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2007:
Fast Forward: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the 21rst Century, Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, United States)
Noise && New Media Art in Chicago, Price Auditorium, Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Contemporary Art in conjunction with Chicago Artist Month (Chicago, United States)
Interactivos 2007, Media Lab Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
OPENPPORT Conference, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Openport Festival, Links Hall (Chicago, United States)
Guest Lecture, NoD Gallery (Prague, Czech Republic)
Guest Lecture, Film Department, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Milwaukee, United States)
r4wb1t5 macro.Festival, Centro Multimedia, Casa Vecina, La Piramide (Mexico City, Mexico)
r4WB1t5 micro.Festival, Pilot Light (Knoxville, United States)
Distribution Religion Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Knoxville (Knoxville, United States)
0UR080R05, Goodbye Blue Monday (New York City, United States)
0UR080R05, Axiom Gallery (Boston, United States)
0UR080R05, Marvelous (Philadelphia, United States)
Media Obscura, BUSKER (Chicago, United States)
HARDcoded, ENEMY (Chicago, United States)
2006:
MusicAcoustica 2006 Festival (Beijing, China)
Waterland Kwanyin Experimental Music Series, Dos Kolegas Bar (Beijing, China)
sys.view|view.sys, East Shore Live Jazz Cafe (Beijing, China)
re:mote program curated by Adam Hyde, ISEA2006 (San Jose, United States)
Computational Models of Creativity in the Arts, Goldsmiths College and the University of London (London, United Kingdom)
Creative Cyborgs, Dana Centre, Science Museum (London, United Kingdom)
Hack the Knowledge Lab, Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
COPY-IT-RIGHT, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
MEXICAN r4WB1t5 macro.Fest, Chi-Town Futbol, BUSKER, ENEMY, Polvo (Chicago, United States)
r4WB1t5, ENEMY (Chicago, United States)
Karaoke Exhibition, The Art Gallery of Knoxville (Knoxville, United States)
NO LIMIT TO LOVE, All Rise Gallery (Chicago, United States)
2005:
Digital Memory Exhibition, The Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland)
The Warsaw Electronic Arts Festival (Warsaw, Poland)
RESFEST 2005, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, United States)
Share Share Widely: New Media Education, New York University (New York City, United States)
OPEN SOURCE / OPEN EAR Festival, Mess Hall (Chicago, United States)
The Upgrade! Chicago presentation (Chicago, United States)
Macerate Exhibtion, Around the Coyote Gallery (Chicago, United States)
format.fetish online Exhibition, Gallery1F (online, International)
r4WB1t5 micro.Festival, AlterSpace (Chicago, United States)
r4WB1t5 micro.Festival, The Mutiny (Chicago, United States)
2004:
Serious!iPop Conference, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
Read_me 2004 Software Art Festival (Aarhus, Denmark)
Cultural Softwares: Artistic Tools & DIY Networks Panel organized by Christiane Paul, ISEA2004 (Helsinki, Finland)
PILOT Conference, Texas Ballroom (Chicago, United States)
Last Supper, Buddy Gallery (Chicago, United States)
2003:
Conversations At The Edge, Old Skool Revolutionaries, Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
Ohm Series, Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, United States)
Version>03 Festival, Open End Gallery (Chicago, United States)
San Francisco Performance Cinema Symposium, Dimension7 Gallery (San Francisco, United States)
AVIT North America International Conference and Visuals Festival (Chicago, United States)
a-very-sensitive-device, Rodan (Chicago, United States)
Friendly Fire Exhibition, Buddy Gallery (Chicago, United States)
2002:
Version>02 Digital Arts Convergence, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, United States)
Critical Cyberculture Studies: Mapping an Evolving Discipline Conference, University Of Maryland (College Park, Maryland)
Select Media Fest, Buddy Gallery (Chicago, United States)
Discount Cinema, Empty Bottle (Chicago, United States)
Versus Exhibition, DiverseWorks (Houston, United States)
a-very-sensitive-device, Heaven Gallery (Chicago, United States)
a-very-sensitive-device, 6ODUM (Chicago, United States)
a-very-sensitive-device, Green Dolphin (Chicago, United States)
_Net & Codeworkers Inc[ubation]_, incubation gallery, trAce Online Writing Center (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
shft8pwr interview, Select Magazine (Chicago, United States)
2001:
CADE2001 Computer Art and Design in Education Conference, Slade School of Art and Design (Glasgow, Scotland)
DuSable Park Proposal Project, Gallery 312 (Chicago, United States)
2000:
Conduit00:reM1x, South by South West Festival (Austin, United States)
1999:
Boston Cyber Arts Festival, MIT (Boston, United States)
Artist's Television Association screening program (San Francisco, California)
1998:
ISEA98 International Symposium on Electronic Art, Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester, United Kingdom)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS and WRITING PROJECTS
[FORTHCOMING]
Re:live: New Directions in Media Art History edited by Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, MIT Press (Boston, United States)
Tools, Analogs and Intersections: Video and Media Art Histories edited by Mona Jimenez, Kathy High and Sherry Miller Hocking, Intellect Books (Bristol, United Kingdom)
2012:
Aram Bartholl. The Speed Book edited by Domenico Quaranta, Gestalten (Berlin, Germany)
2011:
BROKEN RECORDS: Hystories Of Noise && Dirty New Media), essay in The GLI.TC/H READER[ROR], Unsorted Books (Tokyo, Japan)
From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art edited by David Getsy, Penn State Press (University Park, United States)
2010:
The Tipping Point of Failure, an Exhibition Catalog Text for a solo exhibition by Rosa Menkman, Galeria NT (Łódź, Poland)
BREAK ON THROUGH, an Exhibition Catalog Text for the Effervescent Condition exhibition curated by Fang-Tze Hsu for The Power of Copying, international group exhibition held at the Xuzhou Museum of Art (Xuzhou, China) and Gallery X of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2009:
Re:live Media Art Histories 2009 Refereed Conference Proceedings edited by Sean Cubitt and Paul Thomas, The University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia)
_Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_ Synthetic Reality Project edited by mez breeze (Internet, International)
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Dispersive Anatomies special issue edited by Alan Sondheim, mez breeze and Sandy Baldwin, MIT Press (Boston, United States)
lists, boards, friends + feeds (PARTs I - V) on Furtherfield.org (London, United Kingdom)
2008 - present:
Media Art Histories blog (online, International)
Furtherfield Blog, Furtherfield (London, United Kingdom)
2007:
Pass It On! DIY Exhibition Catalog, A+D Gallery, Columbia College (Chicago, United States)
2006:
Mesh, Experimenta (Melbourne, Australia)
2003:
lab3d/empyre reader from Cornerhouse Publishing (Manchester, United Kingdom)
SELECTED ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECTS
2012:
Glitch / Artware Category, PixelJam and NOTACON 2012 (Cleveland, United States)
Dirty New Media Glitch / Artware Dungeon Party Environment, PixelJam and NOTACON 2012 (Cleveland, United States)
CYBER PSYCHE OUT! The Phil Morton Archive with Chelsey Hoff, Ball Hall (Chicago, United States)
2011:
NUMBERS.FM: a new (media) online radio station for experimental musics, snd, audio arts && other uncategorizable sonic events (Internet, International)
Lindsay Howard, Director of 319 SCHOLES, presentation organized by jonCates, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Juanjose Rivas Upgrade! Chicago presentation organized by jonCates, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
SPEED SHOW: while loop is true curated by jonCates, COPYMAX (Chicago, United States)
Theo Darst and Louis Doulas Upgrade! Chicago presentation organized by jonCates, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
Jon Satrom + Ben Syverson Upgrade! Chicago presentation organized by jonCates, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
Art Games LAN Party, NOTACON 2011 (Cleveland, United States)
2010:
The Unintentional Art of Digital Cultures & Communities: From 4chan to cam4 & beyond… an Upgrade! Chicago event with Natacha Stolz, Ei Jane Janet Lin & Miao Jiaxin organized by jonCates, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
Rosa Menkman: Glitched at Conversations at the Edge organized by jonCates, The Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
Joe Hocking Upgrade! Chicago presentation organized by jonCates, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
Kurt Hentschläger Upgrade! Chicago presentation organized by jonCates, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
IN.F3XXX10N.US online Exhibition organized by jonCates and Jake Elliott, Tumblr (Internet, International)
Critical Glitch Artware organized by jonCates and Jake Elliott, BLOCKPARTY and NOTACON 2010 (Cleveland, OH)
Patrick Lichty Upgrade! Chicago presentation organized by jonCates, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
Danielle Wilde Upgrade! Chicago presentation organized by jonCates, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2009:
Expressive Media Express, Chicago Artists Month, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
Screen.Grab series, The Nightingale (Chicago, United States)
Golan Levin, Conversations at the Edge, Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
Cory Arcangel, Conversations at the Edge, Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
Sight & Sound: Flingco Sound System with HAPTIC and Lisa Slodki, Conversations at the Edge, Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
Upgrade! Chicago, various locations (Chicago, United States)
dorkbot Chicago, ENEMY Sound (Chicago, United States)
2008:
Independent Media Art at Stadtwerkstatt in Linz Austria with Astrid Esslinger and Gabriele Kepplinger, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
I LOVE PRESETS (Rob Ray, Jon Satrom and Jason Soliday), Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
Phil Solomon guest artist visit, Machinima, Film, Video & New Media department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger) guest artist visit, New Media 01, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Culture Jamming: A Conversation on Free Use and Free Knowledge screening and realtime audio video event, ENEMY (Chicago, United States)
2007:
Skip Blumberg, Nancy Cain, and Chip Lord guest artist visit, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Barry Doupé guest artist visit, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Laurence Rassel Artist's Talk, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
COPY-IT-RIGHT, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
2006:
JODI, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
Dan Sandin: 35 Years of Electronic Art, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
Shuddhabrata Sengupta and the Raqs Media Collective, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
CALCULATIONS: PIONEERS OF COMPUTER ANIMATION, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
New Media in Mexico City panel discussion with Eusebio Bañuelos and Arcángel Constantini, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Casey Reas, Visiting Artist Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Brian Holmes, Escape the Overcode, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
[FRAY] New Media Conference, Screenings and realtime audio-video performance Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Chicago Hackmeetings, The Flowershop (Chicago, United States)
"Woody and Steina Vasulka: aspects of electronic avant-garde" presentation by Lenka Dolanova, Messhall (Chicago, United States)
"Hackmeeting and Hacklabs: technopolitics and reality hacking in south-european autonomous networks" presentation by Xabier Barandiaran, Polvo (Chicago, United States)
criticalartware screening series, BUSKER (Chicago, United States)
2005:
Mendi+Keith Obadike, Conversations at the Edge, Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, United States)
Jim Duesing, guest artist visit, New Media 01, Film, Video & New Media department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
Dara Greenwald guest artist visit, Prehistories of New Media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2005 - 2007:
r4WB1t5 micro.Fests, The Mutiny, Alterspace, ENEMY, Chi-Town Futbol, BUSKER, Polvo Pilot Light, The Art Gallery of Knoxville, Centro Multimedia, CENART, Casa Vecina, La Piramide
2004:
Version>04, Chicago Cultural Center, heaven gallery, buddY, High School and various locations (Chicago, United States)
2003:
Version>03, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, United States)
Select-Media Festival, High School (Chicago, United States)
Machinima screening program, Elevated-Cinema, buddY Gallery (Chicago, United States)
Low-Fi, net art locator (London, United Kingdom)
2002:
Version>02, Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, United States)
criticalartware Event, Heaven Gallery (Chicago, United States)
SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2008:
Artists residency, quitch (Linz, Austria)
2006:
Award for Excellence, Leonardo/OLATS and Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (Beijing, China)
2004:
empyre listserv (online, International)
Turbulence spotlight: criticalartware's 'liken' (Boston, Massachusetts)
Experimental Television Center Residency (Owego, New York, United States)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS/ARCHIVES
Rhizome.org ArtBase
Turbulence New Media Art Archive
Runme Software Art Repository
Experimental Television Center Archive
SourceForge Free and Open Source Software Repository