profile embodied. digital spectre.

Selected Works:
Aesthetics of Research (Ongoing)
Untitled Video (2024)
c ontrol.wav (2024)
48 Hours Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds, Full Gay Movie Comedy Romance LGBTQIA+ (2024)
Digital/Physical Installs (2022-2023)
We Can Help Each Other Be Brave (2021)
I Found Love In: (2020)
Welcome Home (2019)

Jon Copes (@joncopes) is a new media artist and DJ from Raleigh, North Carolina currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

His practice is rooted in analog photo/digital video/installation/performance with foundations in the art and documentary traditions of the South. His work explores questions of physical connectedness, digital community, and identity construction in the internet age. Jon is heavily influenced by meme, viral image, and shared (cyber)culture, and he is deeply inspired by found materials, trash, dirt, gravel, concrete, construction sites, internet sites, memes, softness, color, tweets, forests, leaves, wind, running water, and home.

Jon recieved his MFA Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts and his BA Communication-Media with a minor in Art + Design from North Carolina State University.

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Welcome Home (2019)

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