{"id":7544,"title":"Art Jones","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/art-jones","version":"4325f69b3247a9174167d7a35dd04fb8ccadd773edc159bfa8ac81524ef1d881","modified":"2011-06-18T00:00:09+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Art","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Jones","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Art Jones.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/art-jones.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7544.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":1788},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":723}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Art Jones is an image/sound manipulator working with film, digital video and hybrid media. His films/videos, CD-ROMs, live audio/video mixes, and installations often concern the inter-relationships between popular music, visual culture, history and power. His work makes extensive use of popular music and mainstream media culture as raw material to be sampled and re-combined in order to examine implicit meanings or suggest new ones. Working with a particular genre or mode, the work seeks to explore, destroy or re-orient the conventions of \u0022the media.\u0022 The formal construction of Jones\u0027 mediaworks reflects the rhythms and beat of rap music. As a VJ he has performed with a variety of musicians and artists, including Soundlab, DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, DJ T-Ina, Amiri Baraka, Femmes with Fatal Breaks and Alec Empire and Phillip Virus. He is a current member of the ITEL Media group and a former member of the Not Channel Zero television collective. His work can be seen internationally in festivals, museums, bars, galleries, and living rooms. Taking up the controversial reaction of the press to hip-hop and rap music, Jones exposes the implicit racism that lies behind the media\u0027s accusations that rap music promotes violence and hatred. Using degraded images to refer to the media\u0027s distortion of facts, Jones\u0027 work studies the ways in which images are presented reinforce and shape mainstream ideology. Jones\u0027 tapes characteristically use high powered collages set to the rhythm and beat of rap music to deconstruct the language and form of commercial music. He works in a variety of old and new media interfaces and continues to perform at various locations in Chicago and New York. He is from the Bronx, New York, and lives and works in and between Chicago and New York.","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":1788,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}