my Glitch Western genre is “unsettling && beautiful” sum folks say, strange, yet familiar…
i combine iconic Old West wit Glitch Art born of today’s frontier technologies. AI to games and film, these are haunted stories of ghosttowns, goldrushes, industrial revolutions, and the landscapes where American dreams collapse, come true, and transform us all.
we are spirits wandering the night like cowpokes looking for campfires. gatherr round yawl, + heartell of how i got here
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my Father, Robert Ross Cates, died on Friday, July 17, 2009 at the age of 71. After his death, i went look’NN fir my Dad inn the classic Westerns he loved. i was search’NN for his spirit when i discovered my own love/hate relationship wit the Western genre.
m4N-ɔØɱ3z-4RND — jonCates (2012)
Johnny Cash’s 2002 When The Man Comes Around && Once Upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone (1968) meet in my mind to form this glitcht && bitcrusht Animated GIF Art of mine.
_ʝ⌡△✕✕✕5̶¥̶N̶_ — 林愛真 Ei Jane Janet Lin && jonCates (2014)
Performing internationally at Glitch Art and Noise events from Chicago to Paris, _ʝ⌡△✕✕✕5̶¥̶N̶_ (pronounced “Jackson”) was a duet / collaborative performance project in which we combined Country Western wit experimental electronic musics to form the a sound which would inspire my Glitch Western.
...&& then? stay tuned yawl ✨
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+ rememberr➝ every artifact tells a tale of progress && decay, dual-use desires, dreams of our Digital⇆Analog Eras — jonCates, 台北，台灣 (Taipei, Taiwan) 2024