Philip Mallory Jones
Philip Mallory Jones, MFA
Artist in Residence (Outgoing)
philipmalloryjones@yahoo.com
Philip Mallory Jones has worked with video, film, photography, and writing for artistic, commercial,and scholarly endeavors since 1969, and has incorporated digital media since 1990. His work has been broadcast and exhibited in North America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Africa, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. He was co-founder and Director of Ithaca Video Projects (1971-85), one of the pioneering media arts centers, and Director/Curator of the Annual Ithaca Video Festival (1974-83), the first juried touring collection of video art. In 1989, he was Curator for ICONO NEGRO: The Black Aesthetic In Video Art, at the Long Beach Museum of Art. In 2001, he received the National Black Programming Consortium “Prized Pieces” award for the Negro Ensemble Company interactive CD-ROM. In 2002, Mr. Jones received the Arizona Governor’s Award in the Arts, for his digital paintings. Mr. Jones has been an invited presenter at the International Film Seminars’ Flaherty Conference in 2001, 1989, and 1986. In 2009, he was an invited presenter at TRANSFORMATIONS, New Directions in Black Art, hosted by Maryland Institute College of Art and Harvard University.
Mr. Jones is currently Resident Artist at the Aesthetic Technologies Lab, College of Fine Arts, Ohio University. He is also the Creative Director for Alchemy Media and Marketing, Inc.
Mr. Jones’ work has been supported by the College of Fine Arts, and the Russ College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, Ohio University, Rockefeller International Media Arts Fellowship (2), Arizona Commission on the Arts, Columbia College at Chicago, Arizona State University Public Events, National Black Programming Consortium, Independent Television Service (2), Ford Foundation, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Center in Paris, Bohen Foundation, Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution Experimental Gallery, Television Laboratory at WNET/13 (2), Corporation for Public Broadcasting, American Film Institute, National Endowment for the Arts (multiple), New York State Council on the Arts (multiple), Creative Artists Public Service Program (2).
Mr. Jones’ current work includes several projects in Second Life synthetic world: In The Sweet Bye & Bye, Bronzeville Sketches, and Points of View: Rediscovering Vanished African American and Multiethnic Communities of Southeastern Ohio. Mr. Jones’ art portfolio includes LISSEN HERE! (2004) a book of poetry and photo-collage, plus film animations, video, interactive digital disc-based works, multi-media installations and performances. Mr. Jones has also published fiction, and created sculptures in acrylic plastics.
Mr. Jones’ academic credentials include the MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University (1971), and the BA (English Composition) from Beloit College (1969).
His previous faculty appointments include the Batza Distinguished Scholar in Art and Art History, at Colgate University, 2002-03; Artist-In-Residence at the Institute For Studies In The Arts, and Senior Lecturer, College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University (1991-2000); and Assistant Professor on the Film/Television faculties of the State University of New York at Fredonia (1990-91), Howard University (1987-1989), and Ithaca College (1984-1987).
