Jonah King


Jonah King is an interdisciplinary artist exploring human/nonhuman relations and speculative futures. Their multifaceted world-building create immersive experiences to examine how ecological intimacies influence individual and social identity.

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Film
Immersive
Lecture/Workshop
Performance
Sculpture
Web
Writing

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Jonah King
Projects:

Music Video; 4m 6s

2018

Music Video for Arto Lindsay, Uncrossed, from the album Cuidado Madame.
The Orchard Music, Believe Music, [Merlin] Redeye Distribution, Harmonia Mundi (on behalf of Ponderosa Music & Art Srl); Warner Chappell, and 2 Music Rights Societies. 




(ongoing); Video Sculptures; Networked media, steel, LCD screens

2017

All My Friends Are In The Cloud is a series of video sculptures focused on intimacy and ephemerality within digital ecosystems. The project centers on aggregating an ever-expanding digital archive viewed via a pillar of video monitors. Images of people embracing gently spin and scroll upward like video clips in a social media feed. As the images ascend, they unfurl into a whirl of digital fragments. By the time each embrace reaches the top of the screen, its image has disintegrated completely. 

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Interactive Sculpture; Experimental Digital Pipeline, Depth Scanner, Photogrammetry Scanner, Python/3.js Pipeline, Networked media, steel, LCD screens, Motor, Wood, LEDs, 120” x 120” x 120”

2019

All My Friends Are In The Cloud is a series of video sculptures focused on intimacy and ephemerality within digital ecosystems. The project centers on aggregating an ever-expanding digital archive viewed via a pillar of video monitors. Images of people embracing gently spin and scroll upward like video clips in a social media feed. As the images ascend, they unfurl into a whirl of digital fragments. By the time each embrace reaches the top of the screen, its image has disintegrated completely.

Harvest Gyre expands this project, via an apparatus that allows members of the public to contribute their image to the archive and instantly wittness themselves unfurling on adjacent screens.

Exhibition
University Galleries of Ilinois State University

Creative Producer
Zach Buckley

Creative Technologists/ Fabrication
Luke Lowers , Hananosuke Takimoto, Bret Williams,   Jason Hoffman Studios


Supported by
Alice and Fannie Fell Trust
Illinois Arts Council Agency
Meyohas Gallery
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts





( Broken Image )

Essay

2017

Baskets of photographs in a Spanish flea market. I look like the boy in front of the Christmas tree; on the high chair surrounded by chubby aunts; held in the air by a grinning father on some suburban driveway. Mustard-yellow Volvo, patio furniture. Fractured sunlight dancing on a picnic blanket. What is that food they are eating? I imagine these are my memories.

Where is he now, that double of me? He lived my whole life decades before me. I am him at the moment of death, replaying his story. A basket of photos in a flea market....

This text forms the basis of All My Friends Are In The Cloud.

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Published In
DESIRE: A Revision From The 20th Century To The Digital Age (IMMA Press)