Fall 2020

Jon Cohrs ('00) is a visual artist and audio engineer whose work uses public engagement, collaboration, and site-specific explorations to address issues around healthcare, the environment, and technology. His most recent project, Back Water, is a documentary film about the Anthropocene, in which a group of people forge the New Jersey Meadowlands by canoe, exploring a strange landscape that tells the story of a civilization's new frontier. As an audio engineer and the founder of Bear Call Mastering, a mastering and post-production sound studio based in Kingston, NY. Previously he founded Spleenless Mastering in Portland, Oregon, and Brooklyn, NY. He has worked with artists such as Rirkrit Tiravanija, Tony Conrad, Cory Arcangel, Tara Jane O'Neil, and Laurie Anderson and mastered the soundtrack for the Oscar-nominated film, Nebraska. His work has been shown at Ars Electronica, FutureEverything, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, The Total Museum Korea, Art in General, and Eyebeam among others. He's received grants from NYSCA, Media Arts Assistance Fund, Mellon Grant, Experimental Televisions Center, FEAST, Future Everything, and fellowships from Eyebeam, NYFA, and the Banff Centre for the Arts, in addition to numerous residencies throughout the US and Europe. He is currently a lecturer of Media Art at SUNY Purchase College. Previously he has lectured at Parsons School for Design, Pratt Institute, NYU ITP, RPI, and Finish Academy of Fine Art (KUVA).