jonathan kemp

oracle bone script (甲骨文) origins of demon (畏) and groan (殹) in kanji (漢字)

latest

Solar Anus recording, solar powered telegraphy with anus & mouth laid down by the road Martin Howse Substrat Radio, the 100th edition, December 2022 - http://reboot.fm/2022/12/04/substrat-100-the-night-play-back/

Ars Electronica 2021 Hong Kong Garden Art in the Cloud: At the Edge of Reality https://hkgarden.scm.cityu.edu.hk/2021-art-in-the-cloud/panel-4/, September 2021

recent

The Crystal World at Liquid Crystal Display atMIMA, Middlesborough, UK, February 2019 - June 2019

The Crystal World at LCD: Liquid Crystal Display, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK, September 2018 - January 2019 review

Solaris workshop, PlayAround: Post Science Fiction Festival, Taipei 15-19 October 2018

Contributor The Annotated Reader October 2018

older

Lick the Silence Merdre, Tokyo 08.10.17 outdoor performance

artists talk, Tama Art University, Tokyo 03.07.2017

Decay Performance event Sunday 30.04.2017 Higure 17-15 cas, Tokyo - performance with Yui Nakamura

Tokyo Shift two day Earth Observatory Array (EOA) workshop 29-30 April 2017 11:00-18:00, hosted by Higure 17-15cas
Part of Shift Register Details: CALL and background TOKYO READER

artists talk, Tokyo Metropolitan University 13.04.2017

Ftarri performance, Tokyo, 25.03.2017 audio

MATTER FICTIONS exhibition, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon 04.05 - 21.08.16

Even Salon: either/or, Apiary, London 30.04.2016

Sakura_performance Ftarri Tokyo, with Hohi Ikeda, 10.04.2016

residency at APO33, Nantes, France 14-28.01.2016: workshop 20-21.01.2016; performance 28.01.16; installation 28.01-21.02.2016 documentation/howtos/performance_video

projects

Telluro-geo-pyscho-modulators

The Crystal World

Artifical Fulgurites

The Suffolk Psychogeophysics Summit

The London Psychogeophysics Summit reader

black earth farmer cycling the technologised earth through the body

sun on earth In the return to the catastrophic and tragic, whether in valorizing the lot of the dispossessed, celebrating a vibrant polity for a
planet conspired against, or to reaffirm ‘a supreme danger that yokes together humans and things’, artists have torn through the technological to
expose primitive electro-mineral substrates, reconfigure protean energies, and exemplify distributive agencies as more complex and less contingent
than anything otherwise deemed universal. In all these operations, we may hint at something of the planetary boundaries within which humanity should
be expected to safely execute, the back story to the anthropocene, or make sensible where any such transgression effects non-linear and abrupt changes
across local and planetary-scale systems. However, in the face of such anthropogenic dramaturgy, the question remains: how might any new technical
aesthetic make space for other energies flowing between heaven, psyche and earth? (On tremulation 2015)

the geology of computers

悪い場所_bad_places

whole_earth

publications

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2019 Tokyo Shift texts & images by William Andrews, Mayumo Inoue, Jonathan Kemp, Elico Suzuki, and Kota Takeuchi

2017 Shift Register TOKYO READER

2016 Rare Metal Martini in monoskop: Even Salon: Anti-Natural

2015 The Crystal World in Experiencing the Unconventional - new materials of artists, eds. Adamatzky, A and Schubert-Minski, T. World Scientific. April 2015

2015 Pitch Drop, in Issue 4.2 / Continent, March 2015

2015 Stack, Frame, Heap, w. Martin Howse, in Plants, Androids, and Operators - A Post Media Handbook.pdf, Mute

2014 Pedunculated Fandango Mute article

2014 contributor to Proto-Tools 1, transcripts of Proto-Tools @ FlatTimeHouse

2014 How to ensure safe and secure disposal of an artserver archive? with Rachel Baker as part of Taking Care of Things

2013 Experimental Communication System w. Ryan Jordan in The Metamorphoses of the Virtual – 100 Years of Art and Freedom (p.35+)

2013 PhD Thesis: The Crystal World: Executing a new media materialism Univ. Westminster.pdf, British Library (194mb) July 2013

2012 The Crystal World, w. Martin Howse, Mute, London

2012 Decrystallization/Descristalização in Peixe Morto (Submidialogias)

2010 exquisite_code collaborative software novel, project_video

2008 xxxxx_peenemünde

2006 [the] xxxxx [reader]

performance

2018

'Solaris' performance, PlayAround: Post Science Fiction Festival, Taipei 19.10.2018

2017

Lick the Silence, Merdre, Tokyo 08.10.17 outdoor performance

Decay Performance with Yui Nakamura, 30.04.2017 Higure 17-15 cas, Tokyo

Ftarri performance, Tokyo, 25.03.2017 audio

2016

Sakura_performance Ftarri Tokyo, with Hohi Ikeda, 10.04.2016

performance at APO33, Nantes, France 28.01.16; performance_video

2015

Performance presentation for rare earth - heavy metal, Melbourne, 20.08.2015 images video

2014

Vocal Machines: Erin Sexton (CA), Portia Winters (UK), Jonathan Kemp (UK) Hundred Years Gallery 13 Pearson Street London E2 8JD. 29 November 2014.recording

2013

Experimental Communication System with Ryan Jordan (UK) and John Bowers (UK), Venice, 25.05.2013 perf_documentation

2012

noise=noise @ the luna park Sat. 08.12.12 at Luna Park, London