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artist name: Stephen Jones
project name: Reading Scroll

personal details:
born: 1951
lives: Sydney

exhibition history:
(01) The Reading Machine included in Intersections of Art and Science at Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Paddington, NSW.
(00 - 01) Momiji: An Autumn Dialogue between Sandy Edwards and Stephen Jones, Gallery East, Clovelly, NSW, May 3-13, 2001. For which I produced a set of scrolls with stories of my time in Japan (in 2000)
(99) A Severed Heads Retrospective: 4 short video pieces about how some of Severed Heads' video clips were made, commissioned for the Universal Machine at the PowerHouse Museum, Sydney.
(99) Images from the Brain Project, Gallery East, Clovelly, NSW.
(98) Synthetics: The History of the Electronically Generated Image in Australia, A 2 day Symposium curated by Stephen Jones, for dlux Media Arts, presented at the PowerHouse Museum, Sydney.
(98 - 99) The Reading Machine: Towards the realisation of Charles' and Ada's future. A Brain Project installation at ArtSpace, Sydney, July 2 - 25, 1998. The Reading Machine was also a finalist in the National Digital Art Awards, 1999 and was shown at the IMA, Brisbane, Oct. 15-30, 1999.
(96) The Brain Project Forums, Performance Space. These were five days of discussions I led covering the topics of the Brain Project research.
(94) Feeding Back, a video installation included in the exhibition Post-Code, curated by Dennis Wilcox for Performance Space.
(84 - 91) Numerous Severed Heads performances and tours both in Australia and overseas (North America and Europe).
(88) Chasing Skirt an interactive video installation by Severed Heads at the Biennale of Sydney. Also in the Melbourne (NGV) tour of the Biennale. Later shown at Video Positive '91, Liverpool, UK
(85) Took part in Video Now at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne.
(85) Took part in Scanlight: New Developments in Video Art, at the Australian Centre for Photography.
(82) Took part in Future Imagery at Metro TV, where I showed my main video synthesiser. A live-in-the-studio recording with the electronic band Severed Heads.
(82) Permutations/Portraits an interactive video synthesiser work shown at the Biennale of Sydney
(78/79/80) Video Tapes from Australia: Curated by Bernice Murphy and myself. I did the actual curating, gathering the works and prepared the catalogue. Bernice Murphy was executive producer. This exhibition toured North America in 1979-80, being shown at the Kitchen in New York, Video Free America in San Francisco, LAICA in Los Angeles and the Video Inn in Vancouver, Canada. I travelled with the exhibition, installing the show and speaking about it at each venue. Subsequently it was presented as Project 30: Some Recent Australian Videotapes at the Art Gallery of NSW and it was also presented at the Venice Biennale 1980.
(78) Produced Vide0zone at the Ozone Cinema, Paddington Town Hall
(77) Took part in Video Spectrum, at Latrobe University, Melbourne.
(77) Open Processes at Watters Gallery: developed and produced and installed the video system.

articles and publications:

Jones, Stephen, (submitted) "The History of the Electronically Generated Image in Australia" submitted to Leonardo, currently in review.

Pachepsky, L., Taylor, T. and Jones, S.(in press) "Mutualism promotes diversity and stability in a simple artificial ecosystem", to appear in Artificial Life. experimental work on the consequences of the production of useful wastes in artificial systems.

Jones, Stephen, (in press) "What is (the) Meaning in/of all of This?" to appear in Tofts, D., Johnson, A-M. and Cavallaro, A. (eds.) Prefiguring Cyberspace, Power Publications. A statement of the motivation behind my artistic practice.

Jones, Stephen (2002) "The HyperMuseum" a paper read at the 3rd Science Centre World Congress, Canberra, February, 2002. on the realisation of an intelligent physical hypermedia system in the museum

Jones, Stephen, (2001) "On the Evolution of Artificial Consciousness." in Keleman, J. and Sosik, P. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the Sixth European Conference, ECAL '01, Prague, Czech Republic, September 2001. pp.427-431.

Jones, Stephen, (2001) "On Resolving Classical Experience with the Quantum World" a paper read at Towards a Science of Consciousness, Skovde, Sweden, August, 2001

Jones, Stephen, (2001) "Intelligent Environments: Organisms or Objects?" in Convergence vol.7, no.2, (Summer) 2001, pp.25-33. on the ethical issues attached to building intelligent spaces/entities.

Jones, Stephen, (2000) "Synthetics: A History of the Electronic Image in Australia" a presentation at ISEA 2000, Paris, December, 2000. On the history of computer art and video graphics in Australia.

Jones, Stephen, (2000) "On the Evolution of Artificial Consciousness." A presentation at Future Screen 2000, dLux Media Arts, PowerHouse Museum, Sydney. October 29, 2000. On the architecture and processes of developing intelligent and conscious artifacts.

Jones, Stephen, (2000) "Bootstrapping the World into Being" paper read at Consciousness Reframed III, CaiiA, Newport College, University of Wales, 2000. in Proceedings.

Jones, Stephen, (2000) "Evolvability in the Context of the Biosphere." A presentation at ALife 7, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, August, 2000. In Maley, C.C. & Boudreau, E. (eds) Artificial Life 7 Workshop Proceedings and Nehaniv, C.L. (ed) Department of Computer Science Technical Report No. 251: Proceedings of the Evolvability Workshop, University of Hertfordshire.

Jones, Stephen, (2000) "Sensing, Communication and Intentionality in Artificial Life." In Sugisaka, M and Tanaka, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January, 2000.

Jones, Stephen, (2000) "Some comments on a philosophy of Virtual Reality: Issues implicit in "Consciousness Reframed"." Leonardo vol.33, no.2, 2000.

Jones, Stephen, (2000) "Relations, Information and Emergence." Poster presented at Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, April, 2000.

Jones, Stephen, (1999) "Towards a Physics of Subjectivity." a paper presented at Invencao, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 1999. In Ascott, Roy (ed.) Art, Technology, Consciousness. Intellect, Exeter, UK. (2000)

Jones, Stephen, (1999) "Can there be Non-embodied Information?" in Ascott, Roy (ed.) Reframing Consciousness. Intellect, Exeter, UK.

Jones, Stephen, (1999) "On Qualia and Information." a paper presented at the Towards a Science of Consciousness conference held in Tokyo, May 1999.

Jones, Stephen, (1998) "On Bubbles and Seamlessness" a commentry on John G. Taylor's "Cortical Activity and the Explanatory Gap" in Consciousness and Cognition, vol.7, no.2, June 1998, pp.180-184.

Jones, Stephen, (1998) "Some suggestions for a neurobiological theory of consciousness." Poster presented at Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, Arizona, April, 1998,

Jones, Stephen, (1997) "A note on a possible physiology of subjectivity, and some comments on what a conscious machine might want to do for itself " In Ascott, Roy (ed.) Consciousness Reframed Conference Proceedings, Centre for Advanced Inquiry into the Interactive Arts (CaiiA), University of Wales College, Newport, Wales, UK.

Jones, Stephen, (1997) The Brain Project. Self-published CD-Rom, an enhanced version of the website.

Jones, Stephen, (1996) The Brain Project Web Site. http://www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/

Jones, Stephen, (1994) "Feeding Back: The Automata Tapes." Catalogue essay from the POSTcode show, Performance Space, Sydney, 1994

Jones, Stephen, (1988) "Illusion, the Brain, Animation and Video" paper presented at The Illusion of Life conference produced by Alan Cholodenko.

Jones, Stephen, (1988) "Interacting with Your TV" in Penny, Simon (ed.) Irrelevant Ethics: Notes on Art Practice in a Technological Context to accompany the Poetechnica exhibition by Virtual Object, Performance Space, Sydney, July, 1988.

Jones, Stephen, (1986) "Some Notes on the Early History of the Independent Video Scene in Australia" in Scott, Jill (ed.) The Australian Video Festival, 1986 Catalogue.

Jones, Stephen, (1980) A Report on the Tour of the VideoTapes From Australia in North America. Report to the video producers and artists whose works were included in the collection.

Jones, Stephen, (1979) Videotapes from Australia catalogue, October, 1979. Catalogue for the touring collection. Australian Gallery Directors Council, Sydney, 1979.

Jones, Stephen, (1979) Notes on the Cybernetics of Language and Video, self-published.

Jones, Stephen, (1977) "Open Processes". A report of the show at Watters Gallery, City Video vol.2, no. 1, May 1977.

Jones, Stephen, (1976) A Proposal for a Video Installation and Show at Watters Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney, February 1st - 12th. Self-published. The proposal for Open Processes.

links:
http://www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/
http://www.culture.com.au/brain_proj/caiia.htm