Jonah King


Jonah King is an interdisciplinarity artist exploring human/nonhuman relations and speculative futures. Their multifaceted world-building projects examine how ecological intimacies influence individual and social identity.

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Film
Immersive
Lecture/Workshop
Performance
Sculpture
Web
Writing

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Jonah King
Projects:

Honey Fungus: Bitter Oyster 001

Resin and Plexiglass

2022

Made in collaboration with Sue Huang. Supported by The Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon

Exhibition
VISUAL Carlow Museum




(ongoing); Video Sculptures; Networked media, steel, LCD screens

2017

All My Friends Are In The Cloud is a series of video sculptures focused on intimacy and ephemerality within digital ecosystems. The project centers on aggregating an ever-expanding digital archive viewed via a pillar of video monitors. Images of people embracing gently spin and scroll upward like video clips in a social media feed. As the images ascend, they unfurl into a whirl of digital fragments. By the time each embrace reaches the top of the screen, its image has disintegrated completely. 

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Interactive Sculpture; Experimental Digital Pipeline, Depth Scanner, Photogrammetry Scanner, Python/3.js Pipeline, Networked media, steel, LCD screens, Motor, Wood, LEDs, 120” x 120” x 120”

2019

All My Friends Are In The Cloud is a series of video sculptures focused on intimacy and ephemerality within digital ecosystems. The project centers on aggregating an ever-expanding digital archive viewed via a pillar of video monitors. Images of people embracing gently spin and scroll upward like video clips in a social media feed. As the images ascend, they unfurl into a whirl of digital fragments. By the time each embrace reaches the top of the screen, its image has disintegrated completely.

Harvest Gyre expands this project, via an apparatus that allows members of the public to contribute their image to the archive and instantly wittness themselves unfurling on adjacent screens.

Exhibition
University Galleries of Ilinois State University

Creative Producer
Zach Buckley

Creative Technologists/ Fabrication
Luke Lowers , Hananosuke Takimoto, Bret Williams,   Jason Hoffman Studios


Supported by
Alice and Fannie Fell Trust
Illinois Arts Council Agency
Meyohas Gallery
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts