Jo-Anne Green

Jo-Anne "Jo" Green (born August 14, 1959 Johannesburg, South Africa) is a printmaker, visual artist, She cofounded several non-profit organizations to support net art and experiments in digital and electronic literature and art.

Education

Green attended the University of the Witwatersrand where she graduated with a BFA Honors in Printmaking, majoring in Art History and Painting, in 1981. In 1983, she emigrated to the United States that led to the formation of the Art Technology Center (ATC): it was there, in 2001, that she met her life partner Helen L. Thorington. Green was Program Coordinator for both the ATC and the Arts of the Americas Institute at UNM from 1999-2001. She returned to Boston in 2001, and joined New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. in 2002: she designed websites, brochures, logos and postcards; and engaged in grant writing and fundraising, among other responsibilities.

Work

Green had her first art exhibition, with Kim Berman, in Johannesburg (1982). She made prints, paintings, artist’s books and installations, many of them grappling with Apartheid, violence, and chronic pain which she suffered for more than thirty years. In 1989, her MFA Thesis exhibition was accepted by the Cambridge Multicultural Arts, Center; she participated in numerous group exhibitions in Boston and New York. Her one-of-a-kind artist book, “Waiting and Remembering,” was acquired by the Jack Ginsberg Centre for Book Arts at Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa where it was shown at the inaugural exhibition of the collection. funded by the LEF Foundation) and the Huret & Spectre Gallery (funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts). NRPA was founded in 1981 to foster the development of new and experimental work for radio and sound arts. It commissioned and distributed 300 works for New American Radio (newamericanradio.org). While at NRPA, Jo-Anne Green also wrote essays that focused on art processes, including Interactivity and Agency in Real-Time Systems.

In early 1996, NRPA extended its mandate to net art. To achieve this, Helen Thorington founded Turbulence.org and Jo-Anne Green joined her in 2002. Turbulence commissioned, exhibited, and archived 356 works that creatively explored the Internet as a site of production and transmission; It was also home to two blogs: Networked_Performance and Networked_Music_Review. Other major projects include Networked: a (networked_book) about (networked_art); Mixed Realities (2007); Pulsed Pull Installation Upgrade! Boston; and New England Initiative II. This site defined network performance as "any work that is enabled by computer networks ... which engage users in a performative experience."

She has also organized several exhibitions at Pace Digital Gallery(PDG), Manhattan, New York as well as Green co-organized multiple symposia at PDG as well as the Floating Points speaker series at Emerson College, Boston Massachusetts.

Exhibitions and curations Green used digital technology and her background as a painter and photographer for her art. Green has exhibited her artwork in Johannesburg, Boston, and New York, mounting her first solo exhibition, "Well, as a result..." at Different Angle Gallery in 1990. The exhibition examined the slow transition from oppression to freedom, and was informed by her experiences in her native South Africa. The opening of the exhibition celebrated Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress with a performance of South African music. Solo 1990 Works on South Africa and Slavery, Cambridge Multicultural Art Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989 Two-person 1989 Five South African Artists, 301 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts Group 1989 Evils of Power, UMASS Dartmouth Art Gallery, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Group 1986 Women's Work: Political Art by Women, Femmecore Space, Boston, Massachusetts Group 1986 Choices: Four South African Artists, Four Walls Gallery, Hoboken, New Jersey Group 1986 Between the Covers: Artist's Handmade Books, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts Group 1985 Symphonies and the System, Trevor Coleman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Two-person 1982