May 2 - June 15, 2008 / Jesse Scott, “Hacking the Jack”

“Hacking the Jack is the result of several video experiments utilizing cross-pollination of digital and analogue media forms. Using several different forms of recapturing, analyzing, and extracting video, then processing it to audio, then re-encoding it as video by assigning phasing and amplitude to hue and mapping bandwidth onto spectograms.

These experiments come from the experience of using several different media, of collaborating with artists across several disciplines, of programming events where media art finds itself coinciding with alternate forms, of constantly working to bridge divisions within the artistic communities in the City of Vancouver.” - Jesse Scott

Jesse Scott - aka metre, aka CineCitta - is a new media artist, promoter, curator, and theorist working from Vancouver, BC. Jesse works within many stylistic domains, in the context of live performance, recorded, and installation-based art. His work is preoccupied with the crossover of sound and listening practice with radical political gesture, with the autonomy of the image and sovereignty from recuperation, and the political role of the artist.