Time: Friday, March 12, 2021, 2:30pm-3:30pm
Join us on Friday, March 12 for a talk given by the 2020-2021 recipient of the OCAD University Award for Distinguished Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity, Associate Professor Simone Jones. Simone Jones is an artist whose works are shaped by the intersection of the lens-based practices of film, video, photography and projection; with sculpture, programming, mechanics and electronics. Her works reflect upon the complex relationship between lived experience and represented experience.
Jones’ most recent work, Intercept–Call–Response (2019) is a four-screen, robotically controlled video installation that explores the origins of magnetic core computer memory and her father’s memory loss due to the progressive complications of Parkinson’s disease. Since 2003, Jones has developed a series of robotically controlled projection machines that synchronize camera movement with video projection. The projection machines re-enact the original movement of the camera within the exhibition space “making the experience of the recorded and live viewing inextricably one and the same.”
Jones was the Jill Kraus Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, with a joint appointment in the School of Art and Robotics from 2000–2003. Since 2003, Jones has been an Associate Professor of Art at OCAD University, where she teaches in the Integrated Media and Digital Futures Programs and advises students in the Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design (IAMD) and Digital Futures Masters Programs.
Jones was nominated for this award by Professor Johanna Householder.