Mason Dixon (artist)
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Mason Dixon, aka Jameson Wallace (born Michael Crampton, 1975), academic theorist, artist
, and performer, currently Motion graphics
professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, director of animation at Design After Next, and founding Director of the Motion Graphics Festival. Jameson's work investigates the subjects of the moving image as a performance medium, aesthetics and warfare, identity hacking, and public art.
His public sculptures and video performances have appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, SIGGRAPH
, South By Southwest
, Lollapalooza
, Boston Center for the Arts
, Cambridge University UK, US Botanical Gardens in DC and the Burning Man
freedom festival. He has produced over 70 exhibitions in 10 US cities and has shown with artists such Mia Liu, Carl Cox
, Shepard Fairey
, The String Cheese Incident, American Analog Set and DJ Spooky
.
Jameson is the technical director at Design After Next and co-directs the Motion Graphics Festival.
Video of the presentation: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/technology_and_gaming/watch/v174218952m5Fq8ZM
Cambridge Motion Graphics Festival – Massachusetts College of Art and Design - 2009 - Conference Presentation – Boston, Mass
Austin Motion Graphics Festival – 501 Studios - 2009 - Conference Presentation – Austin, Texas
Chicago New Media Summit – Museum of Contemporary Art
- 2008 - Conference Presentation – Chicago Loop
“The State of Adobe Address”
Chicago Motion Graphics Festival – Columbia College
Delivered presentations for conference attendees - 2009 - Conference Presentation – Chicago Loop
“A Chicago House Story”
Consuming Race: Shifting Paradigms and the Politics of Race in the 21st Century – University of Chicago
- 2008 - Conference Presentation – Hyde Park, Chicago
“Come Home Julie”
with American Analog Set Premiered at RES fest, Egyptian Theater - 2005 - Music Video - Los Angeles
“Weaponized Video: Tactics of Dissenting Voices”
University of Cambridge
, War and Cinema - 2005, Presentation - Cambridge UK
“A Reaction to Tactical Media”
as Sfear Von Clausvitz Next 5 Minutes, Tactical Media Festival Reader - 2004, Article - Amsterdam
“Illegal Remixed”
Premiered at “Illegal Art Exhibit” at Around The Coyote Winter Festival - 2004 - Video Art – Wicker Park, Chicago
Kill The President’s “Digital Wind”
with DJ Spooky
and Stelarc
Shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
, net.art - 2002 - Website - Dublin
Kill The President’s “Organs of our Mechanical Bodies”
with Orlan
, Adbusters
and Negativeland Shown at the Cyborg Arts Festival - 2001 - Website - Venezuela
Presented by Lumen Eclipse on two flat panel displays in Harvard Square from January 2010 to March 2010, and 24-hours a day on http://LumenEclipse.com
Sponsored by the Motion Graphics Festival. http://MGFest.com
US Botanic Garden - Group Show - Public Sculpture – Washington DC
Crissy Field - Group Show - Public Sculpture – San Francisco
San Diego Natural History Museum - Group Show - Public Sculpture – San Diego
“’Switch On’ at the Underground Art School”
Create Chaos Conference – Orlando World Center Marriott
Art bazaar at the second largest conference center in the US
Co-producer / Curator – Orlando, FL
Underground Art School @ Looptopia
Palmer House
Empire Room - Assistant Producer – Chicago Loop
Boston Motion Graphics Festival
Lumen Eclipse Video Art Kiosk - Curator – Harvard Square, Cambridge
Grant Park
- 2 Dome-shaped video installations for environmentally themed area of large outdoor festival - With Rook TV and IAMU - Group Show – Video Installation – Chicago Loop
Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet
at the Shedd Aquarium
- City of Chicago public art project, globe-shaped sculptures for 3-month shoreline exhibit.
Other artists included Mia Liu - Project theme: Rooftop Gardens
Looptopia
at Daily Plaza - City of Chicago sponsored European-style 24 hour public art festival - With MFChicago
Group Show – Public Video Installation – Chicago Loop
“Edge of the Earth”
2006 - St. Andrews Orthodox Church Edgewater Chamber of Commerce Earth Day Celebration Group Show - Multiprojection Installation – Edgewater, Chicago
2001 Digital Art Showcase
SXSW Interactive “Time Projector” with Ryan Gibson and Chelsea Smock Group Show - Interactive Video Installation – Austin, TX
Terra Cognita Installation Series
Cinematexas Film Festival “The Public Gentials Project” with Allucquere Rosanne Stone - Group Show – Digital Installation – Austin, TX
Mason Dixon, aka Jameson Wallace (born Michael Crampton, 1975), academic theorist, artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, and performer, currently Motion graphics
Motion graphics
Motion graphics are graphics that use video footage and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or rotation, graphics are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects. Motion graphics are usually displayed via electronic media technology, but may be displayed via...
professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, director of animation at Design After Next, and founding Director of the Motion Graphics Festival. Jameson's work investigates the subjects of the moving image as a performance medium, aesthetics and warfare, identity hacking, and public art.
Career
A dropout from the University of Texas's Advanced Communications Theory Laboratory, Jameson Wallace, then Sfear Bebopanaut, went to work for a small internet start-up, iChat, designing the first version of Yahoo's chat community. After iChat's IPO, Sfear organized a team of hackers to detect vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems before the 2000 presidential election. After 9/11, Sfear changed his name to Mason Dixon and moved to Chicago, where he now resides as an instructor of Motion Graphics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.His public sculptures and video performances have appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Art, SIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals...
, South By Southwest
South by Southwest
South by Southwest is an Austin, Texas based company dedicated to planning conferences, trade shows, festivals and other events. Their current roster of annual events include: SXSW Music, SXSW Film, SXSW Interactive, SXSWedu, and SXSWeco and take place every spring in Austin, Texas, United States...
, Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip hop bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. It has also provided a platform for non-profit and political groups. The music festival hosts more than 160,000 people over a...
, Boston Center for the Arts
Boston Center for the Arts
The Boston Center for the Arts is a 501 nonprofit visual and performing arts complex in the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The BCA houses several performance and rehearsal spaces, restaurants, a gallery, the headquarters of the Boston Ballet, the Community Music Center of Boston...
, Cambridge University UK, US Botanical Gardens in DC and the Burning Man
Burning Man
Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before the American Labor Day holiday, and ends on the holiday itself. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening...
freedom festival. He has produced over 70 exhibitions in 10 US cities and has shown with artists such Mia Liu, Carl Cox
Carl Cox
Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...
, Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, in which he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. His...
, The String Cheese Incident, American Analog Set and DJ Spooky
DJ Spooky
Paul D. Miller , known by his stage name DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics or his fans as "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, a producer, a philosopher, and an author...
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Jameson is the technical director at Design After Next and co-directs the Motion Graphics Festival.
Publications
“A History of Tomorrow’s Interfaces”Video of the presentation: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/technology_and_gaming/watch/v174218952m5Fq8ZM
Cambridge Motion Graphics Festival – Massachusetts College of Art and Design - 2009 - Conference Presentation – Boston, Mass
Austin Motion Graphics Festival – 501 Studios - 2009 - Conference Presentation – Austin, Texas
Chicago New Media Summit – Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues...
- 2008 - Conference Presentation – Chicago Loop
“The State of Adobe Address”
Chicago Motion Graphics Festival – Columbia College
Delivered presentations for conference attendees - 2009 - Conference Presentation – Chicago Loop
“A Chicago House Story”
Consuming Race: Shifting Paradigms and the Politics of Race in the 21st Century – University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
- 2008 - Conference Presentation – Hyde Park, Chicago
“Come Home Julie”
with American Analog Set Premiered at RES fest, Egyptian Theater - 2005 - Music Video - Los Angeles
“Weaponized Video: Tactics of Dissenting Voices”
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, War and Cinema - 2005, Presentation - Cambridge UK
“A Reaction to Tactical Media”
as Sfear Von Clausvitz Next 5 Minutes, Tactical Media Festival Reader - 2004, Article - Amsterdam
“Illegal Remixed”
Premiered at “Illegal Art Exhibit” at Around The Coyote Winter Festival - 2004 - Video Art – Wicker Park, Chicago
Kill The President’s “Digital Wind”
with DJ Spooky
DJ Spooky
Paul D. Miller , known by his stage name DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called by critics or his fans as "illbient" or "trip hop". He is a turntablist, a producer, a philosopher, and an author...
and Stelarc
Stelarc
Stelarc is a Cypriot-Australian performance artist whose works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centred around his concept that the human body is obsolete...
Shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Irish Museum of Modern Art also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution exhibiting and collecting modern and contemporary art. The museum opened in May 1991 and is located in Royal Hospital Kilmainham, a 17th-century building near Heuston Station to the west of Dublin's city...
, net.art - 2002 - Website - Dublin
Kill The President’s “Organs of our Mechanical Bodies”
with Orlan
Orlan
ORLAN is a French artist, born May 30, 1947 in Saint-Étienne, Loire. She lives and works in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. She was invited to be a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, for the 2006-2007 academic year...
, Adbusters
AdBusters
The Adbusters Media Foundation is a Canadian-based not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization founded in 1989 by Kalle Lasn and Bill Schmalz in Vancouver, British Columbia...
and Negativeland Shown at the Cyborg Arts Festival - 2001 - Website - Venezuela
2008-2009
- EOTOEOTO-Description:The band's music is created live and without prerecorded loops.The band formed in 2006 as a side project of The String Cheese Incident incorporating looper pedals, like Echoplex and the DJ program Ableton. According to one reviewer, the duo sets their live instruments free and take on...
– Portage Theater - 2009 - With EOTO (formerly The String Cheese Incident) - Portage Park, Chicago
- ShpongleShpongleShpongle is an English psychedelic downtempo/psybient music project formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford and Raja Ram . Their musical style combines eastern ethnic instruments and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music...
- Abbey Pub - 2009 - Lincoln Park, Chicago
- Austin Motion Graphics Festival – 2009 - at 501 Studios (The Independent), Austin, Texas
- Festival of Ice – 2008 - Millennium ParkMillennium ParkMillennium Park is a public park located in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, USA and originally intended to celebrate the millennium. It is a prominent civic center near the city's Lake Michigan shoreline that covers a section of northwestern Grant Park. The area was previously...
- With PlaidPlaid (band)Plaid is a London-based British electronic music duo comprising Andy Turner and Ed Handley. They are former members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic and Balil , before settling on Plaid...
(Electronic) - Chicago Loop
- EOTOEOTO-Description:The band's music is created live and without prerecorded loops.The band formed in 2006 as a side project of The String Cheese Incident incorporating looper pedals, like Echoplex and the DJ program Ableton. According to one reviewer, the duo sets their live instruments free and take on...
– 2008 - Portage Theater, Chicago
- Green Festival Closing Ceremonies – Navy PierNavy PierNavy Pier is a long pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan. It is located in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. The pier was built in 1916 at a cost of $4.5 million, equivalent to $ today. It was a part of the Plan of Chicago developed by architect and...
2008 - With Rena JonesRena JonesRena Jones plays several instruments and is a sound engineer born in 1980. As of 2010 she had collaborated on over 30 albums.Rena produces downtempo and electro-acoustic music. She records live instruments and manipulates them with synthesis...
(classical), live camera remix - Chicago Loop
- An Evening with Shpongle – 2008 - Abbey Pub - Lincoln Park, Chicago
- Boston Motion Graphics Festival – Middlesex Lounge - Cambridge, MA
- Survivor Syndrome – 2008 - Independent Media Center (IMC) - Champaign-Urbana, IL
- Earth Dance & Sacred Earth Open Air – 2008 - With Stoptime341 & Paka Paka Lightshow - Black River Falls, WI
- SinFist (ToolTool (band)Tool is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1990, the group's line-up has included drummer Danny Carey, guitarist Adam Jones, and vocalist Maynard James Keenan. Since 1995, Justin Chancellor has been the band's bassist, replacing their original bassist Paul D'Amour...
cover band) – 2008 - Lakeshore Theater - Lakeview, Chicago
- Re:vivify – 2008 - Butterfly Social Club - With Artificial Life Preserver (Live Intelligent Trance) - Chicago Loop
2007-2006
- Once Removed: Peripeteia – Links Hall - 2007 - Dance performance themed on tragedy - Choreography by Rachel Thorne Germond, Music by Michael Zerang - Lakeview, Chicago
- Art of Play – Chicago Cultural CenterChicago Cultural CenterThe Chicago Cultural Center, opened in 1897, is a Chicago Landmark building that houses the city's official reception venue where the Mayor of Chicago has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders. It is located in the Loop, across Michigan Avenue from Millennium Park...
- 2007 - Live videogame graphics remix- With Bubblyfish and Responder (8-bit audio artists) - Chicago Loop
- Bassnecter – Abbey Pub - 2007 - With Bassnector - Old Town, Chicago
- Jah-givings – Kinetic Playground - 2007 - With Funkadesi - Lakeview, Chicago
- Attack of the Flesh Eaters – Lake Shore Theater - 2007 - With New Millennium Orchestra and the Abominable Twitch - Lakeview, Chicago
- Vision Nightclub - 2006 - 3 live VJ Performances with DJ Sasha, ScooterScooter (band)Scooter are a German hard dance band founded in Hamburg, who have sold over 25 million records and earned over 80 gold and platinum awards. Scooter are considered the most successful single-record German act with 23 top ten hits. The band is currently composed of members H.P. Baxxter, Rick J....
and Blank & JonesBlank & JonesBlank & Jones is a Cologne, Germany based Trance duo, consisting of the members Jan Pieter Blank , known as Piet Blank; René Runge , better known as DJ Jaspa Jones; and the producer Andy Kaufhold...
- Solo Shows - Live projection performance – Chicago Loop
- Entheon Village (MAPSMultidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic StudiesThe Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is a membership-based 501 non-profit research and educational organization working to develop psychedelics and marijuana into legal prescription drugs...
Camp) Main Stage - 2006 - Burning ManBurning ManBurning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before the American Labor Day holiday, and ends on the holiday itself. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening...
- Black Rock City, NV
2010
“Somatic Death, Soma Life”Presented by Lumen Eclipse on two flat panel displays in Harvard Square from January 2010 to March 2010, and 24-hours a day on http://LumenEclipse.com
Sponsored by the Motion Graphics Festival. http://MGFest.com
2008
Cool GlobesUS Botanic Garden - Group Show - Public Sculpture – Washington DC
Crissy Field - Group Show - Public Sculpture – San Francisco
San Diego Natural History Museum - Group Show - Public Sculpture – San Diego
“’Switch On’ at the Underground Art School”
Create Chaos Conference – Orlando World Center Marriott
Art bazaar at the second largest conference center in the US
Co-producer / Curator – Orlando, FL
Underground Art School @ Looptopia
Looptopia
Looptopia was a dusk-to-dawn cultural event that was held in 2007 and 2008 in the city of Chicago. Billed as "Chicago's White Night", Looptopia was modeled after Nuit Blanche held annually in Paris. It premiered on the evening of May 11 through the morning May 12, 2007 in Chicago's central business...
Palmer House
Palmer House
The Palmer House Hilton is a famous and historic hotel in downtown Chicago.-History:There have been three Palmer House Hotels at the corner of State and Monroe Streets in Chicago....
Empire Room - Assistant Producer – Chicago Loop
Boston Motion Graphics Festival
Lumen Eclipse Video Art Kiosk - Curator – Harvard Square, Cambridge
2007 and before
Lollapaooza Green Street DomesGrant Park
Grant Park
Grant Park may refer to:Parks*Grant Park , Georgia, USA*Grant Park , Illinois, USA*Grant Park , Oregon, USACommunities*Grant Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, a neighborhood*Grant Park, Illinois, USA, a village...
- 2 Dome-shaped video installations for environmentally themed area of large outdoor festival - With Rook TV and IAMU - Group Show – Video Installation – Chicago Loop
Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet
at the Shedd Aquarium
Shedd Aquarium
The John G. Shedd Aquarium is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930. The aquarium contains over 25,000 fish, and was for some time the largest indoor aquarium in the world with of water. The Shedd Aquarium was the first inland aquarium with...
- City of Chicago public art project, globe-shaped sculptures for 3-month shoreline exhibit.
Other artists included Mia Liu - Project theme: Rooftop Gardens
Looptopia
Looptopia
Looptopia was a dusk-to-dawn cultural event that was held in 2007 and 2008 in the city of Chicago. Billed as "Chicago's White Night", Looptopia was modeled after Nuit Blanche held annually in Paris. It premiered on the evening of May 11 through the morning May 12, 2007 in Chicago's central business...
at Daily Plaza - City of Chicago sponsored European-style 24 hour public art festival - With MFChicago
Group Show – Public Video Installation – Chicago Loop
“Edge of the Earth”
2006 - St. Andrews Orthodox Church Edgewater Chamber of Commerce Earth Day Celebration Group Show - Multiprojection Installation – Edgewater, Chicago
2001 Digital Art Showcase
SXSW Interactive “Time Projector” with Ryan Gibson and Chelsea Smock Group Show - Interactive Video Installation – Austin, TX
Terra Cognita Installation Series
Cinematexas Film Festival “The Public Gentials Project” with Allucquere Rosanne Stone - Group Show – Digital Installation – Austin, TX
Awards
- ”Semi-finalist” SXSW Game Idea Competition, SXSW Interactive - Chicago House Story - 2009
- Depauw UniversityDePauw UniversityDePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, USA, is a private, national liberal arts college with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the Great Lakes Colleges Association...
, Digital Media Lab Artists Residency – Indiana
- “Weird/Experimental” Nominee, SXSW Web Awards - Kill The President
- “Innovation in Art and Technology” Winner, Texas Interactive Multimedia Awards - Kill The President
- “Best Online Community” voted in the Austin ChronicleAustin ChronicleThe Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly, tabloid-style newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. The paper is distributed through free news-stands, often at local eateries or coffee houses frequented by its targeted demographic...
- Collusion GroupCollusion SyndicateThe Collusion Syndicate, formerly the Collusion Group, was a Computer Security and Internet Politics Special Interest Group founded in 1995 and effectively disbanded around 2002.- Collusion Group :...
- 1998