Bill Jones (artist)

Bill Jones (born August 15, 1946 in Antioch, California) is a photographer, installation artist and performer based in New York. His work is concerned with light as both a physical phenomenon and metaphorical figure. Jones was part of the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, along with such artists as Rodney Graham, Ian Wallace and Jeff Wall.

Jones' work has been shown in the United States and elsewhere, including a mid-career retrospective, "Bill Jones: 10 Years of Multiple-Image Narratives," at the International Center of Photography; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Brooklyn Museum; Jewish Museum; Rotunda Gallery; Sandra Gering Gallery; Lombard-Freid Fine Arts; Amy Lipton Gallery; White Columns (all in NY); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Milwaukee Art Museum; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK.

Jones' 2003 exhibition "Nite Nite", at Sandra Gering Gallery with musician collaborator Ben Neill started a new development of MIDI-controlled video, whereby performed elements of sampled video are "played" by both VJ and musician. Their most recent collaborations include "Palladio", an interactive, playable movie based on the novel by Jonathan Dee that premiered in Glasgow and New York City at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater in February and March respectively, 2005. Jones' work was also featured in "Playvision" [ [http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2006/04/playvision_fusi.html PlayVision: Fusing Sound, Video, Art & Music] .] at the World Financial Center in the Spring of 2006.

New projects

Jones has created a new set of interactive video for new music composed by long-time collaborator Ben Neill. The imagery is primarily black and white and evokes a noirish urban vibe inspired by sci-fi noir films such as Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville. The video and music are created as one hybrid form, and the capabilities of the new version of Neill's mutantrumpet make it possible for the visual and sonic elements to be seamlessly integrated in real time.

Neill and Jones are continuing to explore ways in which the dynamics and improvisation of live musical performance can be translated across the boundaries of sound and vision.

Other projects

Jones has had a distinguished career as a writer and editor. Previously the managing editor of "Arts Magazine", in 1998 he conceived and founded "Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture", which he edited for its first two years. He has collaborated with electro-chemist and cancer researcher Merrill Garnett since the publication "First Pulse: A Personal Journey in Cancer Research."

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External links

* [http://www.bill-jones.com/ Jones's site]
* [http://www.paulpetro.com/j/2008.shtml "Suzy Lake As Patty Hearst"] Bill Jones & Suzy Lake, a collaboration from the 70s at Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto, Nov-Dec 2008
* [http://www.ijamming.net/?p=458 Review of "XIX" at Bard's SummerFest 2006]
* [http://palladiomovie.com/ Palladio]
* [http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/Nite_Nite.html Nite Nite]
* [http://www.geringgallery.com/ Sandra Gering Gallery]
* [http://www.firstpulseprojects.com/Publications.html "First Pulse: A Personal Journey in Cancer Research"]
* [http://www.firstpulseprojects.net/ First Pulse Projects]