the Archive: Broken Phone Gradients - jonCates (2013)
~ the Archive: the year is [2013] ➝ i have just created “Broken Phone Gradients”, a Glitch Art Animated GIF of a ‘broken’ 3D-rendered phone, floating, rotating against a glitch gradient background.
Wednesday September 11th, 2013, at 8:26 PM: Daniel Temkin invites me to show my work at Transfer Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC, New York, in the nationstate now known as the USA. Temkin writes: "Net Worth’s mission is to expand the commercial viability of net art by fostering its shadow market of both stolen and/or fraudulent works, along with legitimate pieces. This volatile medium is perfect for hiding assets, and to launder money without the risk of sneaking physical objects across borders (like bringing your Basquiat through JFK)." All browser-based works "will continue to be publicly viewable online, along with their provenance. All sales will be cash or BitCoin."
NET VVORTH Net Arts Auction House exhibition opened on Saturday December 14, 2013, with artists Kim Asendorf, LaTurbo Avedon, Francoise Gamma, Faith Holland, shawné michaelain holloway, Petra Cortright, Eva & Franco Mattes, myself, and many others.
Exhibitions of Broken Phone Gradients include NET VVORTH curated by Daniel Temkin at Transfer Gallery and online; Computers and Capital curated by Erik H Rzepka and Wesley Yuen for COINFEST 2014: Art & Trade Show (Vancouver, Canada); and DISRUPTION at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), the art exhibition of the 21rst International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), curated by Malcolm Levy and Kate Armstrong.
jonCates creates Glitch Art, the Art of Surprise. From the 1990’s to today, his work includes founding festivals, archives, and educational programs for New Media Art. His most recent projects include 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown), the Glitch Western series of films and games, and its metaverse sequel, 來自金山的女孩, 當機藝術 武俠 (The Girl from goldMountain, the Glitch Art Wuxia).
