// jonCates
Assistant Professor, Film, Video & New Media Department, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

"Delivering fresh New Media to the SAIC Community since 1999!" ™

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NEWS ~~~ CURRENT CLASSES ~~~ PREVIOUS CLASSES ~~~ CONTACT ME
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jonCates presents:

(A) DIGITAL PUNK APPROACH TO NEW MEDIA ART

4:30 PM WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 17 2007

1307 MACLEAN CENTER - 112 SOUTH MICHIGAN - CHICAGO ILLINOIS

PUBLIC PRESENTATION - FACULTY CONTRACT AND PEN-ULTIMATE TENURE REVIEW

FILM, VIDEO & NEW MEDIA DEPARTMENT AT THE SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO

ABOUT:

If a punk show can be organized with zines, xerox fliers and inexpensive instruments in improvised settings and contexts (such as bedrooms, basements and bars) then how can we digitize or translate those approaches into freely accessible codebases, digital applications, programming languages, online networks or computer operating systems?

How could a digital punk approach distribution systems, following similar paths to those that have been created and distributed under the punk ethics of intimacy, immediacy and improvisation?

Can we open source New Media Art and Media Art Hystories?

In this public presentation on his recent work and his approach to New Media Art theorypractices and education, jonCates will ask these questions and attempt to negotiate with what the phrase “digital punk” might mean.

BIO:

jonCates, Assistant Professor in the Film, Video and New Media department at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, develops the curriculum for and teaches in the New Media path of study. jonCates's individual and collaborative projects have been screened, exhibited and/or performed at various festivals, exhibitions and events including: Interactivos at the Madrid Media Lab (Madrid, Spain); The MusicAcoustica 2006 Festival (Beijing, China); ISEA2006 (San Jose, United States); The Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland); The Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna, Austria); The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, United States); South by South West (Austin, Texas) and The Boston Cyber Arts Festival (Boston, United States). His individual and collaborative projects are also widely available online through various online exhibitions, networks and platforms including Low-Fi and Netbehaviour (London, United Kingdom); empyre (New South Wales, Australia); Rhizome.org (New York City, New York) and Turbulence (Boston, United States).

jonCates also organizes and curates New Media events including the ongoing r4WB1t5 ("raw bits") micro festivals (2005 – present); the FRAY New Media series and conference (2006); Version (2002 - 2004) and Game-Video (2003). often invited to present at various international conferences, jonCates has recently participated in the OPENPORT Conference (Chicago, United States); Hack the Knowledge Lab at Lancaster University (Lancaster, United Kingdom); The Warsaw Electronic Arts Festival (Warsaw Poland); Share Share Widely: A Conference on New Media Education at New York University (New York City, New York); Read_me 2004 Software Art Festival (Aarhus, Denmark); ISEA2004 (Helsinki, Finland); Computer Art and Design in Education at the Slade School of Art and Design (Glasgow, United Kingdom) and ISEA98 at Manchester Metropolitan University (Manchester, United Kingdom).


~ CURRENT CLASSES
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FALL 2007


Graduate Advising
Master of Fine Arts Program
WEDS 9 AM - 4 PM
FALL 2006

Schedule advising sessions using the Calender section of the class as it appears on the Portal.

Media Practices: The Moving Image

Film, Video & New Media
FVNM
9 AM - 4PM THURS
FALL 2007
co-taught with Kerry Richardson

RADICAL SOFTWARE CRITICAL ARTWARE
Film, Video & New Media
FVNM 4830
9 AM - 4 PM FRIDAYS
FALL 2007

Radical Software, published from 1970-1974, facilitated an exchange of ideas, media, and tools for video-makers engaged in the early phases of video art. Currently, through distribution and use of noncommercial art-oriented software, artists build communities online that address software culture. Radical Software/Critical Artware examines New Media practices of producing artware or software art in, on, and through networks and communities. Students will learn to program, develop and discuss artware, including tools for generating or manipulating audio-visual data, plug-ins, surface hacks, instruction sets and code as found material. Through screenings, readings, and the production of artware, this course critically analyzes the power of technoseduction while actively engaging in New Media arts practices. Prerequisite: FVNM 2100

~ PREVIOUS CLASSES
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Spring 2007

0850LEET

Media Practices: The Moving Image

co-taught with Anne Quirynen

playFull, playMe
Art and Technology Studies + Film, Video & New Media
co-taught with Ben Chang

~ FALL 2006


Graduate Advising
Master of Fine Arts Program
WEDS 9 AM - 4 PM
FALL 2006

The Prehistories of New Media: 1965 to the Present
Art History, Theory and Criticism
ARTHI 2511
1 PM - 4PM THURS
FALL 2006

This course presents a series of inquiries and conversations about the origins of the theories and practices collectively referred to as New Media. From Marshal McLuhan's use of the phrase "new media" in the 1960s to later usages by video artists in the 1970s and 80s, to those working in the network and computer cultures of the 1990s and in currently emerging discourses, New Media includes a set of contested, multiple, and modular histories as well as an implicit impulse to discard the past. While arising from the parallel, overlapping and resistant codes of experimental media art culture and socially engaged technology, New Media has become both simultaneously clearer and more ambiguous. This course explores the many precedents, exceptions, disputes, and connections that constitute the prehistories of New Media.

RADICAL SOFTWARE CRITICAL ARTWARE
Film, Video & New Media
FVNM 4830
9 AM - 4 PM FRIDAYS
FALL 2006

Radical Software, published from 1970-1974, facilitated an exchange of ideas, media, and tools for video-makers engaged in the early phases of video art. Currently, through distribution and use of noncommercial art-oriented software, artists build communities online that address software culture. Radical Software/Critical Artware examines New Media practices of producing artware or software art in, on, and through networks and communities. Students will learn to program, develop and discuss artware, including tools for generating or manipulating audio-visual data, plug-ins, surface hacks, instruction sets and code as found material. Through screenings, readings, and the production of artware, this course critically analyzes the power of technoseduction while actively engaging in New Media arts practices. Prerequisite: FVNM 2100

~ SPRING 2006

New Media O1

OnEvent

playFull, playMe

~ FALL 2005

Machinema

dot.Video

realtime

~ SPRING 2005

Graduate Advising

New Media O1

The Prehistories of New Media: 1965 to the Present

~ FALL
2004

New Media O1

playFull, playMe

~ SPRING 2004

New Media O1

~ FALL 2003

Media Practices: The Moving Image
co-taught with Ruth Leitman

~ CONTACT

jcates AT saic DOT edu

Film, Video & New Media Department
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
MacLean Center 5th FL
112 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago IL .US
60601

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