David Jhave Johnston


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Hong Kong
Jhave is a digital-poet.
Focus: Language-based online digital art. Combinatorial poetics, multimedia poetry.
Currently, developing works that feature typographic experiments built through a synthesis of Flash, Mudbox, Vegas, Ableton, After Effects and Mr. Softie.
Exhibition history: Agence Topo, Chambre Blanche, Champ Libre, ELO, FILE, FOFA, Incident, Oboro, Turbulence among others. His work has been exhibited at 4 new media Biennales: Montreal ’03,  ’09, ‘11 & Toronto ’04.
Philosophy: Jhave uses algorithms as aesthetic tools; and believes that moist matter is quasi-sentient. His work is an attempt to harmoniously reconcile computation, emotion, concepts, and the ancient idea of artist as conduit.
Since 1999, he has published language-art online (instead of on paper) at www.glia.ca. In the spring of 2011 he released a usb-key version of a decade of this web-work.
Keywords: affect, symbiosis, cybernetics, new-media literature, hybrids, emergence, digital poetics, video art.



Inter-face | Poesía digital

Inter-face is a video-mixer, sound-shredder and poetic notebook. Composited words explode from the mouth, or the eyes, or the skin, and leap and land ...
David Jhave Johnston

 


Turbulence Directors: Helen Thorington and Jo-Anne Green
Coordinator and Turbulence-MEIAC link: Gustavo Romano

Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo
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