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Jackson King (b. 2004)

BS ‘26 Integrated Design & Media NYU Tandon

I am an audiovisual artist working at the intersection of analog video synthesis, experimental electronics, and live performance. I build my own tools as a means of creative expression, because the process of making them is inseparable from the work itself.

I am drawn to perception: how sound and image can work on the nervous system, disorient time, manufacture presence. Psychoacoustics and video synthesis share the same underlying logic to me, and techno is the natural vessel for that. It is a form that rewards extremity, where tension and release operate on a physical level and every technical choice is also an emotional one.

My performance and installation practice grew out of event production. In the Bay Area I founded Cave Rave, an experimental event series held in the historic Sutro Baths cave. It was picked up by Resident Advisor and covered by the SF Standard, and centered on creating space for underrepresented artists and audiences in an unconventional venue, using the architecture and acoustics of a strange, irreplaceable place to make something that could not exist anywhere else.

Now that energy lives in my studio. I work with Eurorack modular synthesis, drum machines, analog video hardware, and hand-built patches and programs that let the visual and sonic interact with one another in real time. I am most at home surrounded by these machines, finding ways to make them speak to each other.

jacksoneking@gmail.com

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