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~ the Archive: the year is [2013] ➝ i have just created 骨頭 && 頭骨 && 愛真, a Glitch Art Animated GIF of 林愛真 Ei Jane Janet Lin wit skulls && bones for Lorna Mills’ Clusterfuck Zoo at Transfer Gallery.
Tuesday July 9, 2013, at 12:59 PM: Lorna Mills invites me to show my work at Transfer Gallery in Brooklyn, NYC, New York, in the nationstate now known as the USA. Mills writes: "Clusterfuck Zoo, an evening of animated GIF projections and alcohol, will focus on animal otherness, charismatic mega-fauna fights and cross-species romance (always the romance). Are Unicorns animals? (yes) Does road-kill count (yes)."
CLUSTERFUCK ZOO exhibition event opened on Saturday, July 13th 2013 with artists Max Capacity, Yoshi Sodeoka, LaTurbo Avedon, Carla Gannis, Faith Holland, myself, and many others.
"jonCates is a glitch art and GIF lord" Art 50, Newcity (2014)
"The glitch art genre is marked by garish, noisy colors. It emerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s through the works of people like Jon Cates, Rosa Menkman, Paul B. Davis, and Takeshi Murata" High-Tech Trash, Carolyn L. Kane (2019)
“jonCates has spent years of his life perfecting black-and-white GIFs. It’s all about his tactics. In this one, “GrandGrimoireSkullFlowerTribute vrsn II,” Cates pulls one over on the usually very simple sexy-winking meme by using an array of texture, shading, and speed to create this phantom-like collage.” GIF of the Day: The Phantoms of Jon Cates — Corinna Kirsh for ART F CITY (2014)
jonCates creates Glitch Art, the Art of Surprise. From the 1990’s to today, his work includes founding festivals, archives, and educational programs for New Media Art. His most recent projects include 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown), the Glitch Western series of films and games, and its metaverse sequel, 來自金山的女孩, 當機藝術 武俠 (The Girl from goldMountain, the Glitch Art Wuxia).