Jack Ox has studied beyond her MFA in visual arts at UCSD and has done considerable research in both music theory (Manhattan School of Music, NYC) and phonetics (U. of Cologne) in order to produce a large body of work which is a visual mapping and structured understanding of of music. Her work includes visualizations of Igor Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements, Gregorian Chant, and Debussy's Nuages. During her six-year stay in Germany she made an 800 square-ft visualization of Kurt Schwitters's Ursonate, the 41-minute-long sound poem. While researching the Ursonate she came upon and caused to be published an original, completely unknown recording by Kurt Schwitters himself as a CD on WERGO, Mainz, Germany. Ox participated in Vom Klang der Bilder at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart in 1985, made an Ursonate presentation at the Centre Georges Pompidou during the Kurt Schwitters retrospective in Paris in 1994, and exhibited the complete cycle of 12 paintings based on Anton Bruckner‰s 8thh Symphony in 1996 at the Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Austria. In 2004 she showed the complete Ursonate at the Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland, in conjunction with the first Polish Kurt Schwitters exhibition, which was sponsored by the German government. The exhiibition also went to the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans.

Ox has been on the editorial board of Leonardo for over 10 years and was guest co-editor of Synesthesia and Intersenses with Jacques Mandelbrojt. Since receiving initial start-up funds from Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria in 1998 she has been collaborating with David Britton on The 21st. Century VirtualColor Organ (tm), a virtual reality performance in an immersive environment. The project received further support from NCSA at the U. of ILL, U-C, Boston U., SGI and EAI. Ox was a visiting fellow in the Dept. of Computer Science, LUTCHI Research Centre, U. of Loughborough, UK, and a visiting artist at the Art and Technology Center and High Performance Computing Center at the U. of New Mexico as she began work on the current Color Organ project; Gridjam.

Web: http://www.jackox.net/
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