Jason Hoelscher: CV
Education
Publications and Conference Presentations and Curatorial Projects
Book
Teaching Experience
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA, July 2015 to present
Associate Professor and Gallery Director
Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in art and systems thinking; work on curriculum creation and revision; extensive service on graduate thesis committees, independent studies, and graduate review panels; curate exhibitions across disciplines for an interdisciplinary art department
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland ME, Summer 2014
TA, Second- and third-year PhD courses in art theory, philosophy, technology, and posthumanism
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, August 2007 to May 2015
Instructor: Painting and Foundations
Graduate and undergraduate courses in design and art, on-ground and online; curriculum creation and revision; and extensive service on graduate thesis committees, independent studies, and graduate review panels
Art Exhibitions
One-Person Gallery Exhibitions
Selected Reviews
Invited Lectures, Fellowships, Grants and Residencies
Professional Affiliations
Education
- PhD: Art Theory and Aesthetics. Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. Dissertation: From Artworks to Artworlds: Information Efflorescence and Complex Systems Aesthetics. Dissertation director: Brian Massumi. October 2018
- New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI). Complex Physical, Biological and Social Systems; Computer Programming and Complex Systems; and Complex Systems Modeling, Networks, and Data Analytics. Cambridge MA, June 2014
- Santa Fe Institute (SFI). Complexity Explorer: Dynamic Systems and Chaos. Online. Spring 2014
- Santa Fe Institute (SFI). Complexity Explorer: Introduction to Complexity. Online. Spring 2013
- Edward Tufte Workshops. Presenting Data and Information. Atlanta GA. February 2013
- MFA: Painting. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 2000
- BFA: Painting and Drawing. Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver CO, 1998
Publications and Conference Presentations and Curatorial Projects
Book
- Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics. Duke University Press, September 2021
- POLLINATE, a transdisciplinary and intermedial exhibition about coevolutionary aesthetics. Part of this year's HUBweek art/science/tech festival, a collaboration between Harvard University and MIT in Boston MA, October 2017
- SECAC (Southeast College Art Conference). Art and Information Literacy in the Age of Fake "Fake News." November 2021, Lexington KY
- SECAC conference: Art / Data / Information. October 2019. Chattanooga TN
- CAA (College Arts Association): Advanced Technology and Arts Education. February 2019. New York, NY
- SECAC conference, panel organizer: Art and Aesthetics in an Era of Artificial Intelligence (October 2018) Birmingham AL. Co-chaired with Scott Contreras-Koterbay.
- SECAC: Art and Indeterminacy: Tactical Ambiguity in the Era of Standardized Testing. October 2015, Pittsburgh PA
- MSA: Complexity Aesthetics: The Arts and Humanities as Complex Adaptive Systems. November 2014, Pittsburgh PA
- SECAC (Southeast College Art Conference): Art, Information, and the Aesthetic Singularity. October 2019, Chattanooga TN
- ICA (International Congress of Aesthetics): Creativity and Constraint in Adjacent Possibility Space. July 2019, University of Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia
- ICA: Aesthetics and Technology, July 2019, University of Belgrade, Belgrade Serbia
- SLSAeu (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts: Europe): Information Efflorescence and the Post-Object Field. June 2019, University of Athens, Athens Greece
- CAA (College Arts Association): Technology in the Studio Classroom, February 2019, New York, NY
- SECAC: Ten Theses on Art and Artificial Intelligence. October 2018, Birmingham AL
- SLSAeu conference, paper presentation: Art as Information Ecology (June 2018). University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Posthuman Aesthetics conference: The Maximum Potential Entropy of Posthuman Aesthetics: An Information Theoretic Interpretation of Grand Narratives. March 2017, Aarhus University, Aarhus Denmark.
- CAA: Reductive Art, Refractive Information and Emergent Simplicity. Panel: "Sensory Implication and Somatic Engagement." February 2017, New York NY
- SLSA: Creativity and Incommensurability: Modes of Differential Instauration. Panel: "Emergent Creativity in Systems of Art Co-Production." November 2016, Atlanta GA (by invitation)
- SECAC: Sonic Instauration and the Contextural Subject. Panel: "Sound Art and Subjectivity." October 2016, Roanoke VA (by invitation)
- ACLA: Immateriality and Standardization: Information and Difference in Modernist Aesthetics. Panel: "Immaterial Studies." March 2016, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- GSU Great Minds Lecture Series: Art, Information, and Complexity. Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA
- CAA: Direct Experience, Once Removed: Unconcealing the Environmental Interface. Panel: "Algorithmic Pollution: Artists Working with Data, Surveillance, and Landscape." February 2016, Washington, D.C.
- SLSA: Preening for the Algorithmic Gaze: Bioinformatic Media and Panopticonic Performativity. Panel: "Panopticism and Performativity." November 2015, Houston TX
- SECAC: Art, Ambiguity, and Generative Difference. October 2015, Pittsburgh PA
- MSA: Drop Out Nodes in a Tuned-In Network: Drop City, Art Communes, and Complex Systems. November 2014, Pittsburgh PA
- SECAC: Reciprocal Autonomy and Contemporary Abstract Painting. October 2014, Sarasota FL
- DFW Conference: Infinite Jest, Anti-Confluential Narrative and Information Entropy. Illinois State University, May 2014, Bloomington IL
- CAA: Diffused Art and Diffracted Objecthood: Painting in the Distributed Field. February 2014, Chicago, IL
- Return of the Text Conference: The Text as Multimodal Interface. September 2013, Syracuse NY.
- Dissertation abstract selected for inclusion in the peer-reviewed MIT Press/Leonardo Journal LABS (Leonardo Abstracts Service) research databank
- “Site/Non-Site/Website: Presence, Absence and Interface in Online Art Courses,” in Stephen Knudsen and James Elkins, Eds. The Art of Critique: Reimagining Art Criticism and the Art School Critique, The University of Chicago Press [forthcoming]
- “Notes on Autocatalytic Aesthetics,” in Ian Verstegen and Roger Rothman, Eds. Art of the Real: Visual Studies and New Materialisms, Cambridge Scholarly Publishing
- “Autopoietic Art Systems and Aesthetic Swarms.” Evental Aesthetics. Vol. 2, No. 3, 2013
- “The Relational Aesthetics of Ambient Artificial Intelligence.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 10, no. 32, October 2019 [feature article]
- “#EverythingThatHappensAtOnce: Amy Schissel at Laura Mesaros Gallery.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 8, no. 29, November 2017 [review]
- “The Material-Specific Paintings of Nathan Miner and Franklin Evans.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 7, no. 24, October 2015 [feature article]
- “Speed, Interrupted: Katherine Taylor at Marcia Wood Gallery.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 7, no. 24, October 2015 [review]
- “This Is Now: Alex Katz at the High Museum.” ARTnews Magazine, vol. 114, no. 9, October 2015 [review]
- “Irresistible: Art, Meaning and Resistance: An Interview with Sylvère Lotringer.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 6, no. 23, September 2015 [feature article]
- “Object Lesson: Laila Kouri at the Low Museum.” BurnAway, May 2015 [review]
- “Occupy Space/Time: Time-Folding in Contemporary Art.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 18, February 2014. [lead feature article]
- “Sven-Ole Frahm at Galerie Richard, Paris.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 18, February 2014 [review]
- “Pattern and Deregulation: Beauty and Non-Order in Contemporary Painting.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 17, November 2013 [lead feature article]
- “Janet Kawada: Art in Time, Time as Art.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 15, May 2013 [review]
- “MIT: In the Holocene.” ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 15, May 2013 [review]
- “Art Circuit: The Biennial Complex as Dynamic Chronotopic System.” Artcore Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 2013 [lead essay]
- Visiting scholar/Writing Fellowship, IDSVA (May-June 2018). Spannocchia, Italy.
- Juror, LABnormal, Embodied Evolution: PostDigital Body Armor Design Competition. May 2014, Savannah GA
- “In Conversation: Martha Buskirk and Jason Hoelscher: The State of Contemporary Art Discourse.” Montserrat College of Art, Boston MA, November 2012
- “In Memoriam to Static Subjectivity.” Exhibition catalog introduction, 2011
Teaching Experience
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA, July 2015 to present
Associate Professor and Gallery Director
Teach graduate and undergraduate courses in art and systems thinking; work on curriculum creation and revision; extensive service on graduate thesis committees, independent studies, and graduate review panels; curate exhibitions across disciplines for an interdisciplinary art department
Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland ME, Summer 2014
TA, Second- and third-year PhD courses in art theory, philosophy, technology, and posthumanism
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, August 2007 to May 2015
Instructor: Painting and Foundations
Graduate and undergraduate courses in design and art, on-ground and online; curriculum creation and revision; and extensive service on graduate thesis committees, independent studies, and graduate review panels
Art Exhibitions
One-Person Gallery Exhibitions
- House of Wren, Simplexity, July-August 2018, Los Angeles CA
- Alexander Brest Gallery, Jacksonville University, Syllepticonic Resonance, February-March 2017, Jacksonville FL
- Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, Iconographic Overdrive, September 2016, St. Louis MO
- TGB Gallery, Magnetic Fields Forever, September-October 2011, Berlin Germany
- Gallery See, Syntaxiomatic, July-August, 2010, Atlanta GA
- Pinnacle Gallery, Minimalish: Recent Paintings, March-April 2010, Savannah GA
- Rule Modern & Contemporary, Attention Span Management, November 2009-January 2010, Denver CO [with illustrated catalog]
- Pratt-Steuben Gallery, MFA Thesis Exhibition, March-April 2000, Brooklyn NY
- OK Harris Gallery, Recent Paintings, January-February 1999, New York NY
- Rule Modern & Contemporary, Recent Paintings, April 1998, Denver CO
- Edge Gallery, NeoNow, January-February 1998, Denver CO
- Cornell DeWitt Gallery, Scope New York, Recent Paintings, March 2004, New York NY
- Project Gallery, Aqua Art Miami, December 2016, Miami FL
- ParisCONCRET Gallery, Stockholm Independent Art Fair, February 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
- Rule Modern & Contemporary, Art Santa Fe, July 2011, Santa Fe NM
- Rule Modern & Contemporary, Art Santa Fe, July 2009, Santa Fe NM
- Rule Modern & Contemporary, Red Dot Art Fair, February 2009, New York NY
- Rule Modern & Contemporary, Aqua Art Miami, November 2008, Miami FL
- Rule Modern & Contemporary, Red Dot Art Fair, February 2007, New York NY
- Cornell DeWitt Gallery, Art Santa Fe, July 2003, Santa Fe NM
- Museum of Contemporary Art: Denver, Nth Dimension, June-September 2019, Denver CO
- Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art, Gathered, April-June 2019, Atlanta GA
- Artfields, April-May 2019, Lake City SC
- Projects Gallery, Aqua Art Miami, December 2016, Miami FL
- Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Works on Paper IV, February-March 2016, Long Island City NY
- University Gallery, Georgia Southern University, New Faculty Exhibition, August-September 2015, Statesboro GA
- ParisCONCRET, Poste Concret2, July-August 2013, Paris, France
- Farm Project Space, Space-Time, July 2013, Provincetown MA [with illustrated catalog]
- Manifest Gallery, Tapped 3, January 2013, Cincinnati OH [with illustrated catalog]
- MTSU: Todd Gallery, P3: Painters Painting Paint, August-September 2012, Murfreesboro TN
- Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Abstract: Less is More, May-June 2012, Long Island City, NY
- Projects Gallery, Square Foot Art Basel Miami, November-December 2011, Miami FL
- ParisCONCRET, Poste Concret, July-August 2011, Paris, France
- St. Cecilia’s Gallery, May-June 2011, Brooklyn NY
- Mark Humphrey Gallery, April 2011, Southampton NY
- Moot Gallery, Year of the Rabbit, January-March 2011, Hong Kong, China
- Mr. Beast Gallery, Kaiju, January-February 2011, Savannah GA
- ParisCONCRET Gallery, Popular Mechanics, June-July 2010, Paris, France
- Moot Gallery, Generation, March-April 2010, Hong Kong, China
- Splashlight Studios, RXArt, November 2006, New York NY [with illustrated catalog]
- LA Center for Digital Art, Snap to Grid, September-October 2005, Los Angeles CA
- White Columns, Groundswell Benefit, April 2003, New York NY
- Cornell DeWitt Gallery, gallery artists, 2002-2004, New York NY
- Cornell DeWitt Gallery, FlatOut, September-October, 2002, New York NY
- Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, PostPoint, February-March, 2001, Denver CO
- Arvada Center for the Arts, Colorado Abstraction 1975-1999, Sept.-Nov.1999, Denver CO
- OK Harris Gallery, Review of the Season, July-September 1999, New York NY
- Rule Modern & Contemporary, gallery artists, 1997-present, Denver CO
Selected Reviews
- HUBweek, August 2, 2017, "Jason Hoelscher: HUBweek Artist of the Day"
- HLC, September 2, 2016, by Eileen G'Sell, "The Pithy Provocations of Jason Hoelscher"
- Riverfront Times, September 1, 2016, by Paul Friswold, "2 Must-See Art Openings This Weekend"
- Professional Artist Magazine, November 2011, “Jason Hoelscher: The Aesthetic Power of Recombination”, artist profile
- Minus Space: Reductive Art, September 30, 2011, “Jason Hoelscher: Recent Paintings in Berlin”
- Artnet Magazine, June 8, 2011, “Brooklyn Local”
- Minus Space: Reductive Art, June 26, 2010, “Popular Mechanics: ParisCONCRET”
- Culturehall: A Curated Online Resource for Contemporary Art, June 2010-present
- Art Ltd. Magazine, March-April 2010, solo exhibition review
- The Denver Post, January 1, 2010, “The Shapes of Things to Come”, solo exhibition review
- Westword, December 22, 2009, solo exhibition review
- Minus Space: Reductive Art, November 21, 2009, “Jason Hoelscher: Attention Span Management”
- Zing Magazine, November 2009, “zingrecs: Zing Recommends”
- Art Ltd. Magazine, November-December 2009, “Focus on: Denver”
- Saatchi Online Magazine, September 8, 2007, “Critics Choice”
- Denver Post, September 13, 2002, group exhibition preview
- Westword, Volume 26, #4, September 2002, group exhibition preview
- Rocky Mountain News, Friday, March 9, 2001, group exhibition review
- Colorado Springs Independent, October 14, 1999, “Art Hopping”, group exhibition review
- Westword, Vol. 23, #4, September 1999, “Time Marches On”
- Rocky Mountain News, Sunday, December 20, 1998, “Colorado Artists in National Spotlight”
- eye-level: journal of contemporary visual culture, Winter 1998, “Jason Hoelscher: Deconstructing Constructivism”, artist profile
- Westword, Vol. 21, #43, June 1998, “Best of Denver”: “Best Solo Show, Emerging Artist”
- Westword, Vol. 21, #33, April 1998, solo exhibition review
- Rocky Mountain News, Friday, April 17, 1998, “Weekend Spotlight”, solo exhibition review
- Westword, Vol. 21, #23, February 1998, solo exhibition review
- AD: Art & Design Denver, Vol. 1, # 1, February 1998, “In Your Face Silence”, artist profile
Invited Lectures, Fellowships, Grants and Residencies
- Georgia Southern University, Faculty Development Grant, September 2016
- Montserrat College of Art, Visiting artist: Classroom visits and critiques, Beverly MA, March 2016
- Andy Warhol Foundation / Creative Capital / International Art Critics Association, Arts Writers Grant Program Workshop, January-June 2015
- Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Visiting artist: Presentation and class visits, Boston MA, February 2014
- Montserrat College of Art, Visiting artist: Classroom visits and critiques, Beverly MA, February 2014
- Case Western Reserve University, Visiting artist: Lecture and studio visits, Cleveland OH, April 2013
- Montserrat College of Art, Visiting artist: One-week intensive visit, including lectures, classroom visits and guest critiques, Beverly MA, November 2012
- Modernist Studies Association, Travel Fellowship, October 2012
- Gallery See, Artist lecture to visiting students, Atlanta GA, August 2010
- Pinnacle Gallery, Artist lecture to visiting students, Savannah GA, March 2010
- Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Visiting artist: Classroom visits and guest critiques, Denver CO, November 2009
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant, New York NY, October 2009
- Institute for Experimental Studies, Artist in Residence, Denver CO, June-August 1999
Professional Affiliations
- ASA: American Society for Aesthetics
- CAA: College Art Association
- HASTAC: Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory
- NECSI: New England Complex Systems Institute
- NMC: New Media Caucus
- SLSA: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
- SECAC: Southeastern College Art Conference
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