Joan Jonas
Joan Jonas was born in 1936 in New York City. She is a pioneer of video and art performances. She does videos of things that are weird. One of her pieces is called “Roll Call” and it is just images coming down vertically and a metal spoon hitting the screen. It goes on for nineteen minutes. She started out her career as a sculptor then slowly began her transition into video art. She is supposed to be one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, but I don’t understand her art. It was also hard to see her videos. There were like two videos out to see and the rest, if there was any, was twenty seconds long. Some of the pieces she has done are: Wind (1968), Songdelay (1973), Organic Honey (1972-1976), the Juniper Tree (1976), and Lines in the Sand (2002). Some of her influences are conceptual art, theater performance, feminism, and other visual media. In 2003, she also had some solo exhibitions at Rosamund Felsen in Los Angeles and the Pat Hern Gallery in New York. Today she is a professor of visual arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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