Jon Cates

Jon Cates is Associate Professor in the departments of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation and Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). At SAIC Cates created the New Media Art and Media Art Histories curriculum. He is an early and consistent contributor to the field of Media Art Histories, being the first graduate of the first international Graduate program founded by Oliver Grau at the Donau-Universität Krems Austria. Cates was recently an invited speaker at Harvard Art Museums for JODI’s solo exhibition presented in collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) exhibition Art in the Age of the Internet; the international Media Art Histories conference series; and the Glitch Art Festival in Zagreb, Croatia. Cates also curates and exhibits his projects globally. He is curating an exhibition, Chicago New Media, at The University of Illinois at Chicago in 2018 and has just Completed a curatorial project, The Art of the Networked Practice, with Singapore’s institutions, Nanyang Technological University and LASALLE College of the Arts. In just the last year, he exhibits his own Glitch Art and experimental Noise projects internationally, recently in Istanbul, Vienna, Glasgow, The Hague, Tehran, Chicago and online.