Jason J. Ferguson

Jason J Ferguson uses humor, the uncanny, and an absurdist voice to create public interventions, performance works, videos, and sculptural objects. Ferguson’s psychologically charged installations have been said to raise issues of artistic control, consciousness, and mortality. In his work private space becomes public, the ethereal becomes tangible, and the obvious becomes obscure. Ferguson has exhibited internationally including exhibitions in Tokyo, Mexico City, Berlin, São Paulo, Rosario, and Tirana; as well as national venues. His artwork has been featured in a variety of publications including Sculpture Magazine, Hyperallergic, SciArt Magazine, Artifizz, the Chicago Art Review, the 3D Additivist Cookbook, and more. Jason currently resides in Michigan where he is a professor in the School of Art & Design at Eastern Michigan University.

(re)memory *co-presenting with Lance Winn

Jason J Ferguson and Lance Winn have been investigating the promise of big data coupled with the loss and sense of distance that accompanies the digital age since 2019. The duo engages with cyberspace; collaborating with social media, satellite images and topographies, and the code of search engines to evolve forms that reflect on access to information, captured from afar. They then use digital fabrication techniques to extract their investigations of virtual space back into the physical world as epistemological objects exploring how we come to know things now. Ferguson and Winn use the language of mechanical fabrication to reconstruct and make material the power of the virtual as well as revealing the glitches of translation. The two consider these models to highlight the hyper-connectivity found in the digital age as well as the subsequent gaps found where information, and communication, are missing.

Website
https://www.jasonjferguson.com/