December 2018 – May 2019
Image Credit: Maranda Powers
About the Artist: Jon Chambers is an artist and educator based in Chicago where he teaches media literacy, media art histories, net art, new media art (software + hardware) and video at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University. He has shown work nationally and internationally, in screening venues, galleries and online.
Artist Statement: My work responds to experiences of saturation, obsessions and often humorous contradictions that emerge from our relationships with technology, virtuality and remoteness. I’m particularly interested in how we negotiate the duality of our digital and physical lives within networked systems of consumerism, identity and future histories. Endearing and uncanny feelings in the work urge us to consider the streamlined technological interfaces (both hardware and software) we encounter everyday and where those interactions start to break down.
Jon Chambers, 2017
Jon Chambers, Stills from 3D animation Symbiosis, HD video, 2017
Jon Chambers, Still from 3D animation Simulation&&, HD Video, 2017
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
