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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Jack Ox
Leonardo Editorial Board Member
| Jack Ox 2710 Hyder Ave. S.E. Albuquerque, NM 87106 U.S.A. E-mail: jackox@bway.net Web: http://www.jackox.net/ http://www.stillshot.net |
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 Stravinskyâs
Symphony in Three Movements, Gregorian Chant, and Debussyâs
Nuages. During her six-year stay in Germany she made an 800
square-ft visualization of Kurt Schwittersâs 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 Brucknerâs 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 ãSynesthesia and Intersenseä 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. For more information on both
her older and newer work please go to www.jackox.net.
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