biography

to 1999

Jeff Instone: Production List

Contents:

EMARE 99: EUROPEAN MEDIA ARTIST IN RESIDENCE EXCHANGE  :  1999
‘Verteran der Textkunst’ digital artist JEFF INSTONE at WERKLEITZ GESELLSCHAFT e.V., ZENTRUM FUR KUNSTLERISCHE BILDMEDIEN, TORNITZ, SAXONY-ANHALT, July - August 1999. Proposal: to construct a new Internet work written in JavaScript. ‘So spoke The Ruskin Master: never heard of that handler’. The work is designed for Netscape 4+ and will be online from 02 April 2000. Additional financial support made available by The British Council and by Southern Arts (UK). Hosted by var e-zine: www.var.org
Direct URL: www.var.ndirect.co.uk/instone/index.html

Never heard of that handler (working title)  :  1998 / 1999
Commissioned by The Consortium of The Gallery of The Future, Loughborough University, Jan.1998. First stage carried out using facilities made available by LUTCHI (Loughborough University of Technology Computer Human Interface Research Centre). UNDER CONSTRUCTION stage shown April 1998 as mouse activated screenwork displayed on a 42" plasmavision screen. Additional support available in 1999 from The Instone Corporation, New York, and Southern Arts Development, UK.

Observing The Crowd: the agent ethnographer  :  1998 / 1999
Participation in The Digital Crowd Research Group, Media Arts, Plymouth University, and presentation of 'Never heard of that handler ', proposing that a similar archive engine with an enhanced user input might be relevant to the project.

Digital Art Practice: journalism  :  1998 / 1999
Extracts from texts prepared during the construction of digital screenworks between 1993 and 1997 published in Digital Creativity magazine, published by Swets and Zeitlinger, 1999.

Micronet Expurgator  :   1998
Internet test version commissioned by VAR WEB MAGAZINE as a ‘launch commission’. www.var.ndirect.co.uk/var/vb4.html (online from April 1998: this work is for Netscape 3+)

The Word Beyond Speech II: Kiss the bony structure  :   1997
‘One of the few older artists to have ventured on to The Web…in this linguistic labyrinth you sometimes find yourself coming back to a point where you’ve already been or you end up hopelessly lost in its random structures’. Michael Gibbs, Art Monthly, Oct. 1997. Internet Commission by CAMERAWORK, London, 1996-97. Launched at TRANSMEDIALE 97 Berlin, and OSTRANENIE 97 ELECTRONIC MEDIA FORUM, Bauhaus. Now that backspace has deconstructed the work is online at www.bak.spc.org/baksites/cgi

The Word Beyond Speech I  :   1996
Commissioned by un_R_est 1993. Conceptualization and construction Jeff Instone, sound files Julian Weaver. Limited edition CD-ROM 1995. Launched VIDEOFEST 8 Berlin INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA SECTION 1995; also featured at PAROLE ‘word up’ HILUS INTERMEDIALE PROJECKTFORSCHUNG Vienna and PANDÆMONIUM CYBERSPACE ICA London 1996. Construction facilities provided by mindBath Interactive London 1993-1995. ‘Language loses its shape. Significance collapses in upon itself. The word escapes our interpretation. The unfinished texts of Georges Perec remain unfinished as we witness a virus ridden computer descend into a corrupt condition. This is the exquisite nightmare anyone who owns a computer has always feared.’ Catalogue entry VIDEOFEST 8 Berlin ‘Thema Virus: Der Text, signifikant und schön, verliert plötzlich seine Forme. Der virusgeplagte Computer aus der Perspektive des Voyageurs.’ Catalogue entry PAROLE.

Where do you want to go to today?  :   1994
Commission from US advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy: client Microsoft

Apartheid stained us forever
Commission by YO!SA to prepare a ‘headline’ section, ‘Apartheid stained us forever’. Designed at mindBath Interactive London, April 1994.

Quo vadis, Joe Sixpack?  :   1992
Constructed during period as part-time student on postgraduate course at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design 1990-1992. ‘A Mass Observation style interactive textwork that explores numerous random factual and humorous observations on food and drink.’ The Cyberspace Lexicon, Phaidon 1994

Forever Amber at Zebra Crossing  :   1991
Published by J. P. R. Instone Publications. Exhibited ITWorks, Coventry Polytechnic 1991. Listed in BRITISH ARTISTS BOOKS 1983-93.

Echoes (the significance of the vacant lot)  :   1987
MATT’S GALLERY London. Installation of latex stencil paintings

Transfers  :   1984
AIR GALLERY London. Installation of plaster cast text collages

Casts  :     :  1983
MATT’S GALLERY London. Installation of plaster cast radio transcripts

Scripts  :   1981
GALERIA AKUMULATORY 2 Poznan and GALLERY X Wroclaw: written drawings

Retrospective  :   1981
WINCHESTER GALLERY School of Art, Winchester: 10 works from 1975-1980

479,970 numbers on a tiled floor  :   1980
RIVERSIDE STUDIOS London. Installation of graphite textwork

69,000 words on a brick wall  :   1980
MATT’S GALLERY London. Installation of graphite textwork, publication of ‘Scripts 1976-79’

Cratylus: the English artist and the word  :   1979
SAO PAOLO BIENNAL São Paolo, Brazil. Curated by Tom Phillips. British Council exhibition

Scripts  :   1979
HOUSE GALLERY London, GALERIA AKUMULATORY 2 Poznan

The Terre Verte Venus Probe  :   1976
SERPENTINE GALLERY London. Written paintings: extracts published in BANANAS LITERARY MAGAZINE DECIPHERMENT ISSUE

Wordprints  :   1974
GALERI GRAFIKHUSET Stockholm. Screenprints

COLLECTIONS:

The British Council
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein: CD-ROM open digital archive 1998

AWARDS:

The British Council, Greater London Arts, GLA Publication Fund, The Elephant Trust, Southern Arts International Initiatives Fund, Southern Arts Development Fund.

1987-1990: Jeff Instone has written articles and reviews on:
John Blake, Peter Kennard, Jaroslaw Koslowski, John Murphy, Avis Newman, Cy Twombly and Richard Wilson (published in Art Monthly, Artscribe International, CV Journal of the Arts).