jonCates (Jon Cates)

jonCates (Jon Cates) is an internationally recognized founder in the field of Glitch Art. Cates has founded festivals, archives, and educational programs for these artistic approaches over the last 20+ years. Cates is a professor at several international New Media and Media Art Hystories programs. He is the first full-time tenured New Media Faculty hire at School of the Art Institute where he developed the New Media Art curriculum.

jonCates was born on traditional homelands of the Indigenous People of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Bodéwadmiakiwen (Potawatomi), (Osage), Sauk and Meskwaki, Peoria, and Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) Nations in the city that some people now call Keokuk, Iowa.

"i work everyday to divest from systems of oppression, critically addressing ‘whiteness’ as a social construct, white supremacy as genocidal violence, and the context of the nationstate now known as the United States of America." - jonCates