SAMANTHA JONES . INFO

Samantha Jones is an International New Media Artist, based in Liverpool, UK. She develops intelligent sculptural systems that analyze, respond and visualize the elemental, physical and cultural environment. Predominantly creating site specific work in, real-time video, 3D environments, sound and live data to create virtual and public installation’s, that respond and intervene into both physical , ecological, geopolitical space, to change how we perceive, engage, and view the environment and culture that surrounds us

News - Samantha will be undertaking an arts resideny in Syria with the arts organisation ALLARTNOW. This will take palce between 15-09-11 and 30-10-11.

News - Above Us Only Sky was further developed in Palestine/Israel with support of Palestinian artists British Council in Jordan. With just a notebook of gps positions of former residential addresses of Palestinian now artist based in Jordan, a digital SLR and a data logger, this piece explored the loss of home, memory and nation.

News - Samantha was supported by the British Council to take part in the Shatana 08 international artist workshop in Jordan. Shatana 08 was hosted by MAKAN as part of the Triangle Arts Trust network. Visit Above us only sky on flickr to view images of the outcome to this workshop, which was exhibited in Shatana village

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

No hell below us

Above us only sky

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine there's no Country

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

And no religion too

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace

Lyrics by John Lennon - Born Liverpool, UK
Liverpool born sound artist Sam Jones used GPS to plot the geographic location of Shatana. The village yielded an unexpectedly high number of satellites in the sky above it. To highlight this, with the aim of drawing into question why there would be so many satellites above such an unknown village, Sam located a number of exact geographic positions where she had field recorded. Local crafts people cut these positions out of aluminium and they were placed back in the village, to deflect and disrupt the satellites' signals. The audio recordings where then placed in a local house, unobserved by the satellites roaming above.

Update - Samantha has been commsission by FACT (Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology)and Liverpool Culture Company to undertake research into the forms of new media arts that will support their Arts Health and Technology strategy ( 21- 09 - 08 )

Update - Samantha has been commsission by FACT (Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology) to develop a intelligent sensory waiting room for the pathlolgy department of Alder Hey hospital ( 11- 08 - 08 )

News 08 - Samantha has been commsission by FACT (Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology) to collaborate with patients and Staff at Alder Hey Children's Hospital's Oncology ward to research and develop a interactive sound project to be installed within the Hospital in 08 as part of the Sonic Streams programme. Got to Sonic Streams website for more information( 03- 05 - 08 )

Update - Samantha has been commsission by FACT (Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology) to collaborate with patients and Staff at Alder Hey Children's Hospital's Oncology ward to research and develop a interactive sound project to be installed within the hospital in 09 as part of the Sonic Streams progreamme ( 03- 10 - 07 )

News 07 - Samantha is currently project managing the Sonic Streams programme. Sonic Streams is a creative collaboration between FACT (Foundation for Arts and Creative Technology) and Alder Hey Children's Hospital exploring the effects of sound on the human body. Bafta award winning sound recordist Chris Watson and LA based New Media artist Josh Nimoy have been commisioned to collaborate with patients and Staff at Alder Hey to develop innovative sound based pieces for use within the hospital. (27-06-07)