Stephen Raoul Jones (born 23 January 1951) is an Australian

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ist, writer and curator. Born in

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, Jones, together with

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, was a principal member of

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from 1982 to 1992. He developed analog

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s for the production of video art and for use in Severed Heads' live performances and

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s. Jones has created many video art and documentation works since 1975. ''Hunting For the Future'' (1977) is a documentation of

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and Charlotte Moorman's Art Gallery of NSW visit in 1976 – it is now housed in the collections of the

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and the

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, as well as included in ''Tell Me, Tell Me'', an MCA Offsite exhibition that toured South Korea in 2011. Jones and

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created ''Three Texts'' in 1977 at

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. His ''Stonehenge, TV Buddha and Tai Chi Transforms (The Systems Interfacing Reports)'' work (1976-'78) is included in the

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. Jones has also worked as a video post-production engineer. In 1996, he received the ''New Media Arts Fellowship'' to work on ''The Brain Project'' – a website dedicated to the science of consciousness. In 2007 he received a PhD studying the history of the electronic arts in Australia to 1975. Jones also maintains a private archive documenting artworks and exhibitions of art and technology based artists. In 2013, Jones was guest curator for Artspace's This is Video'' exhibition as part of ISEA 2013. The exhibition revisited the 1981 exhibition ''Video Art from Australia'' which had been presented in Venice and subsequently toured through Australia. Jones' book ''Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956 – 1975'' was published by MIT Press in their ''Leonardo Book Series''. Scanlines said the book ''has become the definitive work in the field in Australia''.

References

External links

Synthetics - A History of Video Art in Australia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Stephen 1951 births Living people Severed Heads members Australian video artists