Andrew Jones
In the East Andrew Jones has been heralded as "the apocalyptic art
shaman."
His work is a hybrid of academic training, emerging
technology and the mystical experience, bringing together a mixture
of archetypical mythology and contemporary magic. Beginning his
career working with George Lucas at INDUSTRIAL LIGHT and MAGIC, He
has served as Nintendo’s North American concept artist for 5 years
where he envisioned the classic metroid franchise, he went on to
start and serve as the Creative Director of MASSIVE BLACK.
In 2002,
Andrew co-created the non-profit online art community CONCEPTART.org,
which has attracted nearly 87,000 registered users and receives over
1,000,000 unique visitors / month. Andrew has used this internet
portal to launch a series of highly acclaimed art workshops, and has
traveled the world teaching art to students from Berlin, Romania,
Amsterdam, Paris, Montreal, Texas, Florida, Seattle, San Francisco
and beyond.
With work featured on the box cover of Corel Painter X,
he is a leader in the digital fine art community, and works closely
with the developers of emerging digital technology to create software
that gives artists new tools to create their dreams. Andrew has now
taken his art out of the studio and onto the stage performing live at
festivals, from the high rises of Tokyo to the desserts of Burning
man, his creative domain includes; forests, clubs and ample theaters,
touring with the worlds top underground DJs and bands (such as
Bassnectar, glitch mob, tipper, and bluetech).
In his pursuit to
master of the digital art medium, Andrew continues to push the limits
of what’s possible with the manipulation of light and energy and is
on the front line of “conscious digital innovation”
