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Joan
Jonas
Professor
of Visual Arts
Room:
N52-373G
Telephone:
(617) 253-5229
Send
e-mail
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Jonas
is a pioneer of video/performance art. Her experiments and productions
in the late 1960s and early 1970s were essential to the formulation
of the genre. Her influence was crucial to the development of
contemporary art in many genres&--;from performance and video
to conceptual art and theater. During the past decade, Jonas
has collaborated with composers such as Alvin Lucier to develop
collaborative video-performance works, and has performed and
toured with The Wooster Group. Her most recent work continues
to explore the relationship of new digital media to performance.
Jonas is currently developing a performance for the Museum of
Modern Art in Dublin where three of her installations will also
be included. Jonas has been awarded fellowships and grants for
choreography, video, and visual arts from the National Endowment
for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the CAT Fund, the
Artist TV Lab at WNET/13 (New York City), the Television Workshop
at WXX1 (Rochester), and the Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst
(DAAD) in Germany. Jonas has received the Hyogo Prefecture Museum
of Modern Art Prize at the Tokyo International Video Art Festival,
the Polaroid Award for Video, and the American Film Institute
Maya Deren Award for Video. In 1994, Jonas was honored with
a major retrospective exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,
in which she transformed six performance works into installations
for the museum. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Rosamund
Felsen in Los Angeles and the Pat Hearn Gallery in New York
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This
page: Background; see also: Profile and Works (Works
is in the Portfolio section)
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