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Jack Ox
Visualization ArtistJack Ox is the creative director of the nonprofit Intermedia Projects Inc. She began as an artist who used research as the method behind her artworks. Now she is taking the procedures developed as an artist to the scientific and engineering world of visualization. Ox presented a paper at the IEEE VIZ conference in Paris and is a Ph.D. with a dissertation on “Manifestations of Conceptual Metaphor and Blending Theories in Science, Design, and Art” from the Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, AU. She is also a longtime member of Leonardo Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology’s editorial board, and has served as both a research assistant professor in art and art history and research associate professor of music at the University of New Mexico (UNM). She is now a Research Associate with the Center for Advanced Research Computing (CARC) UNM and a Research Fellow at the Art/Sci Center in ATEC, at the University of Texas, Dallas.
In Ursonate 3rd Movement: Kristen Loree and Jack Ox, the intersection of vocal performance and experimental music visualization reaches an exceptional level of artistic synergy. In this collaboration, Kristen Loree’s powerful and nuanced performance of Kurt Schwitters’ iconic sound poem Ursonate serves as the conceptual and acoustic engine that Jack Ox translates into a rigorous system of visual mapping. Far from being a mere decorative illustration, Ox’s work transforms the modular structure, relentless rhythms, and phonetic modulations of the third movement (the Scherzo) into a vibrant chromatic and spatial architecture. The interplay between Loree’s live vocalization and Ox’s visual system creates a multisensorial experience where Dadaist sound poetry transcends the transience of audio to become a tangible, structural form.
