- Mason Dixon (artist)
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Mason Dixon, aka Jameson Wallace (born Michael Crampton, 1975), academic theorist, artist, and performer, currently Motion graphics professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, director of animation at Design After Next, and founding Director of the Motion Graphics Festival. Jameson's work investigates the subjects of the moving image as a performance medium, aesthetics and warfare, identity hacking, and public art.Career
A dropout from the University of Texas's Advanced Communications Theory Laboratory, Jameson Wallace, then Sfear Bebopanaut, went to work for a small internet start-up, iChat, designing the first version of Yahoo's chat community. After iChat's IPO, Sfear organized a team of hackers to detect vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems before the 2000 presidential election. After 9/11, Sfear changed his name to Mason Dixon and moved to Chicago, where he now resides as an instructor of Motion Graphics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1]
His public sculptures and video performances have appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, SIGGRAPH, South By Southwest, Lollapalooza, Boston Center for the Arts, Cambridge University UK, US Botanical Gardens in DC and the Burning Man freedom festival. He has produced over 70 exhibitions in 10 US cities and has shown with artists such Mia Liu, Carl Cox, Shepard Fairey, The String Cheese Incident, American Analog Set and DJ Spooky.
Jameson is the technical director at Design After Next and co-directs the Motion Graphics Festival.
Publications
“A History of Tomorrow’s Interfaces”
Video of the presentation: [1]
Cambridge Motion Graphics Festival – Massachusetts College of Art and Design - 2009 - Conference Presentation – Boston, Mass [2]
Austin Motion Graphics Festival – 501 Studios - 2009 - Conference Presentation – Austin, Texas [3]
Chicago New Media Summit – Museum of Contemporary Art - 2008 - Conference Presentation – Chicago Loop [4]“The State of Adobe Address”
Chicago Motion Graphics Festival – Columbia College [5]
Delivered presentations for conference attendees - 2009 - Conference Presentation – Chicago Loop“A Chicago House Story”
Consuming Race: Shifting Paradigms and the Politics of Race in the 21st Century – University of Chicago - 2008 - Conference Presentation – Hyde Park, Chicago“Come Home Julie”
with American Analog Set Premiered at RES fest, Egyptian Theater - 2005 - Music Video - Los Angeles“Weaponized Video: Tactics of Dissenting Voices”
University of Cambridge, War and Cinema - 2005, Presentation - Cambridge UK“A Reaction to Tactical Media”
as Sfear Von Clausvitz Next 5 Minutes, Tactical Media Festival Reader - 2004, Article - Amsterdam [6]“Illegal Remixed”
Premiered at “Illegal Art Exhibit” at Around The Coyote Winter Festival - 2004 - Video Art – Wicker Park, ChicagoKill The President’s “Digital Wind”
with DJ Spooky and Stelarc Shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, net.art - 2002 - Website - DublinKill The President’s “Organs of our Mechanical Bodies”
with Orlan, Adbusters and Negativeland Shown at the Cyborg Arts Festival - 2001 - Website - VenezuelaSelected Public Solo Performances
2008-2009
- EOTO – Portage Theater - 2009 - With EOTO (formerly The String Cheese Incident) - Portage Park, Chicago
- Shpongle - Abbey Pub - 2009 - Lincoln Park, Chicago
- Austin Motion Graphics Festival – 2009 - at 501 Studios (The Independent), Austin, Texas [7]
- Festival of Ice – 2008 - Millennium Park - With Plaid (Electronic) - Chicago Loop [8]
- EOTO – 2008 - Portage Theater, Chicago
- Green Festival Closing Ceremonies – Navy Pier 2008 - With Rena Jones (classical), live camera remix - Chicago Loop
- An Evening with Shpongle – 2008 - Abbey Pub - Lincoln Park, Chicago
- Boston Motion Graphics Festival – Middlesex Lounge - Cambridge, MA [9]
- Survivor Syndrome – 2008 - Independent Media Center (IMC) - Champaign-Urbana, IL
- Earth Dance & Sacred Earth Open Air – 2008 - With Stoptime341 & Paka Paka Lightshow - Black River Falls, WI
- SinFist (Tool cover band) – 2008 - Lakeshore Theater - Lakeview, Chicago
- Re:vivify – 2008 - Butterfly Social Club - With Artificial Life Preserver (Live Intelligent Trance) - Chicago Loop
2007-2006
- Once Removed: Peripeteia – Links Hall - 2007 - Dance performance themed on tragedy - Choreography by Rachel Thorne Germond, Music by Michael Zerang - Lakeview, Chicago
- Art of Play – Chicago Cultural Center - 2007 - Live videogame graphics remix- With Bubblyfish and Responder (8-bit audio artists) - Chicago Loop
- Bassnecter – Abbey Pub - 2007 - With Bassnector - Old Town, Chicago
- Jah-givings – Kinetic Playground - 2007 - With Funkadesi - Lakeview, Chicago
- Attack of the Flesh Eaters – Lake Shore Theater - 2007 - With New Millennium Orchestra and the Abominable Twitch - Lakeview, Chicago
- Vision Nightclub - 2006 - 3 live VJ Performances with DJ Sasha, Scooter and Blank & Jones - Solo Shows - Live projection performance – Chicago Loop
- Entheon Village (MAPS Camp) Main Stage - 2006 - Burning Man - Black Rock City, NV
Selected Sculpture & Installation Exhibitions
2010
“Somatic Death, Soma Life”
Presented by Lumen Eclipse on two flat panel displays in Harvard Square from January 2010 to March 2010, and 24-hours a day on http://LumenEclipse.com
Sponsored by the Motion Graphics Festival. http://MGFest.com2008
Cool Globes
US Botanic Garden - Group Show - Public Sculpture – Washington DC
Crissy Field - Group Show - Public Sculpture – San Francisco
San Diego Natural History Museum - Group Show - Public Sculpture – San Diego“’Switch On’ at the Underground Art School”
Create Chaos Conference – Orlando World Center Marriott
Art bazaar at the second largest conference center in the US
Co-producer / Curator – Orlando, FLUnderground Art School @ Looptopia
Palmer House Empire Room - Assistant Producer – Chicago LoopBoston Motion Graphics Festival
Lumen Eclipse Video Art Kiosk - Curator – Harvard Square, Cambridge[10]2007 and before
Lollapaooza Green Street Domes
Grant Park - 2 Dome-shaped video installations for environmentally themed area of large outdoor festival - With Rook TV and IAMU - Group Show – Video Installation – Chicago LoopCool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet [11]
at the Shedd Aquarium - City of Chicago public art project, globe-shaped sculptures for 3-month shoreline exhibit.
Other artists included Mia Liu - Project theme: Rooftop GardensLooptopia
at Daily Plaza - City of Chicago sponsored European-style 24 hour public art festival - With MFChicago
Group Show – Public Video Installation – Chicago Loop“Edge of the Earth”
2006 - St. Andrews Orthodox Church Edgewater Chamber of Commerce Earth Day Celebration Group Show - Multiprojection Installation – Edgewater, Chicago2001 Digital Art Showcase
SXSW Interactive “Time Projector” with Ryan Gibson and Chelsea Smock Group Show - Interactive Video Installation – Austin, TXTerra Cognita Installation Series
Cinematexas Film Festival “The Public Gentials Project” with Allucquere Rosanne Stone - Group Show – Digital Installation – Austin, TXAwards
- ”Semi-finalist” SXSW Game Idea Competition, SXSW Interactive - Chicago House Story - 2009 [12]
- Depauw University, Digital Media Lab Artists Residency – Indiana
- “Weird/Experimental” Nominee, SXSW Web Awards - Kill The President [13]
- “Innovation in Art and Technology” Winner, Texas Interactive Multimedia Awards - Kill The President
- “Best Online Community” voted in the Austin Chronicle - Collusion Group - 1998[14]
References
- ^ http://www.saic.edu/people/Dixon_Mason_Michael_.html?color=ORANGE
- ^ http://mgfest.com/09/Boston/details/motiondesignconference.php
- ^ http://mgfest.com/09/Austin/conference.php
- ^ http://chicagonewmediasummit.com/events/08CNMS.php
- ^ http://mgfest.com/09/Chicago/tours/ascend.php
- ^ http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors2/vonclauswitztext.html
- ^ http://mgfest.com/09/Austin/performanceart.php
- ^ http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=resources&id=5913208
- ^ http://mgfest.com/08boston/index.php
- ^ http://mgfest.com/08boston/index.php
- ^ http://www.coolglobes.com/road.php
- ^ http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS93008+13-Feb-2009+PRN20090213
- ^ http://2004.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/2002/
- ^ http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Guides/Location?oid=oid:48146
Categories:- 1975 births
- Living people
- American artists
- University of Texas at Austin alumni
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