Photo: Jon Winet

Jon Winet is an artist, researcher and teacher who produces projects revolving around politics, art, language and images in the Information Age. He directs the Intermedia program in the School of Art & Art History at The University of Iowa, and is an Associate Professor in International Programs. He is currently in pre-production on The Electoral College, a media project exploring the 2008 U.S. presidential election and democratic practice in America. He is also part of a design team at Onomy Labs in the Silicon Valley, developing T2ST ®C The Times Square of Science and Technology, a permanent installation in the atrium of the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, New Jersey.

In August 2006, he launched Zero One to the Globe ®C The World to San Jose, a SMS|MMS project for mobile devices as part of ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the Thirteenth International Symposium of Electronic Art. Earlier in the summer he completed work on Goal 2006!, an international project on the FIFA soccer World Cup in the era of globalization. As described in Rhizome News, "The website revolves around ‘a virtual football card in 64 versions, featuring updates and RSS media feeds for the participating FIFA countries, original video, audio and photography, and field reports worldwide.’ The site successfully mimics the rich, celebratory design style of any other sports page, but each player’s card is accompanied by reports of environmental and social challenges specific to that locale, as a result of globalization."

Through 2004 Winet worked in the collaboration Margaret Crane|Jon Winet. During 1993-1998 they were artists in residence at Xerox PARC, a think tank in the Silicon Valley, investigating the impact of the Internet on public space. Their projects include 2004-America & The Globe, a year-long multimedia project on the US presidential elections and democratic practice in America; The Street a 2003-2004 art in public kiosk poster project highlight non-profit social service agencies in San Francisco; and Monument, [2002] an online hypertext project based in Newcastle that explores English northeastern identity in the contemporary landscape of cultural regeneration and global economics.

Winet is also director of the Experimental Wing of The University of Iowa Virtual Writing University. He is presently editing a ‘post web’ issue exploring new networks and delivery systems for experimental writing as editor of TIR Web, the online companion to the literary journal The Iowa Review.

www.uiowa.edu/~interart/jwinet/isis

Dynamically generated virtual trading cards for FIFA World Cup participating countries, produced with Craig Dietrich. Previous Next Close	Subscription cell phone project: multimedia with text, video and photography, produced with Craig Dietrich. Previous Next Close	MMS element for The Electoral College: media project on the 2008 U.S. presidential elections. Previous Next Close	From the 2004 multimedia exhibition project at DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas. Previous Next Close	From the 2004 multimedia exhibition project at DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas. Previous Next Close
Jon Winet Screen shot of Goal 2006!, 2006 Photo: Jon Winet	Jon Winet Screen shot of Z1SMS sign up page, 2006 Photo: Jon Winet	Jon Winet Screen shots of Homecoming, 2006 Photo: Jon Winet	Margaret Crane / Jon Winet 2004-America & The Globe, installation view, 2004DiverseWorks Photo: Jon Winet	Margaret Crane / Jon Winet 2004-America & The Globe, 2004 Photo: Jon Winet