Bill Jones is a photographer, installation artist and performer based in New York

New York

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. 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

Rodney Graham

Rodney Graham is an artist and musician born in Abbotsford, British Columbia. He is most often associated with the Vancouver School...

, Ian Wallace

Ian Wallace

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 and Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall

Jeffrey "Jeff" Wall, OC, RSA is a Canadian artist best known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs and art-historical writing. Wall has been a key figure in Vancouver's art scene since the early-1970s...

. He is married to painter Joy Garnett

Joy Garnett

Joy Garnett is an artist based in New York. She is married to visual artist Bill Jones. Garnett's paintings, based variously on news photographs, scientific imagery and military documents she gathers from the Internet, examine the apocalyptic-sublime at the intersections of media, politics and...

.

Jones' work has been shown in the United States

United States

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 and elsewhere, including a mid-career retrospective, "Bill Jones: 10 Years of Multiple-Image Narratives," at the International Center of Photography

International Center of Photography

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; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum

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; Jewish Museum

Jewish Museum

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; Rotunda Gallery; Sandra Gering Gallery; Lombard-Freid Fine Arts; Amy Lipton Gallery; White Columns

White Columns

White Columns is New York City’s oldest alternative non-profit space and one of its most prestigious. White Columns is known as a show case for up and coming artists....

 (all in NY); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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; High Museum of Art

High Museum of Art

The High Museum of Art , located in Atlanta, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States and one of the most-visited art museums in the world. Located on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.-History:The Museum was...

, Atlanta; Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee Art Museum

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; Musée National d'Art Moderne

Musée National d'Art Moderne

The Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou in the 4th arrondissement of the city. Created in 1947, it was then housed in the Palais de Tokyo and moved to its current location in 1977...

, Paris; Kettle's Yard

Kettle's Yard

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, Cambridge, UK.

Jones' 2003 exhibition "Nite Nite", at Sandra Gering Gallery with musician collaborator Ben Neill

Ben Neill

Ben Neill is a composer and trumpeter who has studied with La Monte Young. His music has been recorded on the Thirsty Ear, Astralwerks, Verve, and Six Degrees labels. Neill spent seven years as the music curator for The Kitchen in New York. He has collaborated with DJ Spooky, David Wojnarowicz...

 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

Jonathan Dee

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 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 at the World Financial Center

World Financial Center

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 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

Ben Neill

Ben Neill is a composer and trumpeter who has studied with La Monte Young. His music has been recorded on the Thirsty Ear, Astralwerks, Verve, and Six Degrees labels. Neill spent seven years as the music curator for The Kitchen in New York. He has collaborated with DJ Spooky, David Wojnarowicz...

. The imagery is primarily black and white and evokes a noirish urban vibe inspired by sci-fi noir films such as Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard

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'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

Merrill Garnett

Merrill Garnett is a biochemist and cancer researcher, and the founder and director of Garnett McKeen Laboratory, Inc. Holding a D.D.S. from New York University, and graduate study in chemistry and biochemistry from New York University and Brooklyn College, Dr...

since the publication First Pulse: A Personal Journey in Cancer Research.

External links

• Jones's site
• "Suzy Lake As Patty Hearst" Bill Jones & Suzy Lake, a collaboration from the 70s at Paul Petro Gallery, Toronto, Nov-Dec 2008
• Bill Jones on Artfacts.net
• Review of XIX at Bard's SummerFest 2006
• Palladio
• Nite Nite
• Sandra Gering Gallery
• First Pulse: A Personal Journey in Cancer Research
• First Pulse Projects