About

Hi! My name is Jon and I'm based in New Orleans where I teach interactive media and games in the Digital Media Practices department at Tulane University. Previously I've taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago and The University of Chicago. I have shown work nationally and internationally, in screening venues, galleries and online. My full CV can be found here.

My work explores how we negotiate our physical and virtual lives within overlapping themes of consumerism, surveillance, play, environmental impact and future histories. As feedback loops and interactions between the body and networked platforms become increasingly extracted, targeted and automated, experiences of saturation, humor, uncanniness and contradictions start to emerge. 3D representations of the body in various states of mutable resolution are often featured in projects to highlight a fractured sense of self as we attempt to coalesce disparate echoes of reference into something coherent amidst the difficulty of manifesting or orienting oneself within approximation and simulation overload.

Themes include: immediacy, intimacy, consumerism, AI, surveillance, play, climate change and future histories



Please feel free to contact me: jon's email and links to my various social media accounts can be found above.