About the Jack Straw New Media Gallery

The Jack Straw New Media Gallery opened in 1999 to support artists working with visual and installation art, with an emphasis on sound. The Gallery is one feature of the New Media Gallery Program, and is one of three residency programs at Jack Straw. The New Media Gallery exhibits artists' work through an open call process like the Artist Support Program and Writers Program. As one of a handful of exclusively sound art spaces in the world, it has been attracting applicants nationally and internationally, however Jack Straw has a commitment to local artists. Local artists who have exhibited recently include Paul Rucker (2007), Trimpin (2006), Tania Kupzcak (2005), Kristin Tollefson (2005), Iole Alessandrini (2004). Perri Lynch (2003).

Gallery residencies include an exhibition of up to three months in the gallery; 20 hours of studio assistance with one of our engineers; access to Jack Straw Productions audio recording, production, and presentation equipment; and two public events - the opening and an artist talk. This residency is for exhibiting and performing artists in any medium who would like to incorporate sound into their work. Other previous gallery artists include Steve Roden, Jason KahnJoe Colley, David Kwan, Richard Lerman, Kichul Kim, and Joe Diebes. See below for a complete list of exhibitions.

Jack Straw announces 2010-2011 New Media Gallery residencies

The artists selected for the 2010-2011 New Media Gallery Program are:

Nari Baker will create an installation about transnational adoptees who have had unsuccessful searches for their birth parents.  The piece will incorporate oral letters from herself and other adoptees to their imagined birth parents with a visual collection of these letters and digital photographs of sites significant to their adoption histories, such as birth cities and the hospitals in which they were born.

Jim Hobbs and the band Kinski will collaborate on an atmospheric, multi-media installation consisting of two 16mm film projections and a new, collaborative sound piece.  The installation will be based on 16mm footage and field recordings taken at Fort Worden, in Port Townsend, Washington.

Carlisle Roveto will create a sculptural installation evoking a surreal desert canyon.  The piece will guide the viewer through a maze of columns, where they can engage with wire-framed creatures that bounce and create sound in response to audience stimuli.

Robert Millis will create an installation that explores how we 'file away' memories.  The piece will consist of file cabinets and chests of drawers.  Each drawer, when opened, will cause a different recording to play.  The recordings - fragments of voices, stories, sounds, music - when taken together, might tell a whole story.

To celebrate Jack Straw's 50th anniversary in 2012, Ellen Sollod will create an installation transforming the New Media Gallery into a camera obscura that reflects the world outside the gallery.  The installation will include a soundscape that deals with the idea of urbanism and what it is to live in a city as well as Jack Straw as an institution today and historically.


New Media Gallery Information sheet, floor & ceiling plans (PDF)


Previous Exhibitions

View archived pages of the Jack Straw New Media Gallery, as well as artists' documentation:

This Old Piano by Tiffany Lin, Spring 2010 ~ JSP Archive

Metaphors for Dead Pianos by Hugo Solis, Winter 2010 ~ JSP Archive

So Long by Brent Watanabe, Fall 2009 ~ JSP Archive

Felt by Gust Burns & Melanie Noel, Summer 2009 ~ JSP Archive

Vriti by Joel S. Kollin, Spring 2009 ~ JSP Archive

Still Point by Heather Dew Oaksen, Winter 2008-09 ~ JSP Archive

Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas by Byron Au Yong & Randy Moss, Autumn 2008 ~ JSP Archive

Resonances by Dorsey Dunn, Spring 2008 ~ JSP Archive

Wires by Jason Kahn, Winter 2008 ~ JSP Archive

Every Island Fled Away and the Mountains Could Not be Found by Jim Haynes, Fall 2007 ~ JSP Archive

Catalyst by Paul Rucker, Spring-Summer 2007 ~ JSP Archive

Terminus by David Kwan, Winter-Spring 2007 ~ JSP Archive

Lonely Microphone by Joe Colley, Winter 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Huldre by S. Lyn Goeringer, Fall 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Rapport by Kichul Kim, Summer 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Fences-Borders by Richard Lerman, Spring 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Archival Investigations by Trimpin, Winter 2006 ~ JSP Archive

Maps & Legends by Tania Kupczak, Fall 2005 ~ JSP Archive

The Four Dignities by Rene Yung & Janice Giteck, Summer 2005 ~ JSP Archive

Organic Plan by Kristin Tollefson, Spring 2005 ~ JSP Archive

String Quartet #2 by Joe Diebes, Winter 2005 ~ JSP Archive

YIJU: songs of dislocation by Byron Au Yong, Fall/Winter 2004 ~ JSP Archive ~ yijusongs

Untitled by Iole Alessandrini, Summer/Fall 2004 ~ JSP Archive ~ iole.org

dislocator by Randy Moss, Spring 2004 ~ rmoss.com

Searching for a Quiet Place: Turnbull Bay by Jesse Paul Miller, Winter 2003/04 ~ jesse paul miller

Precisely Known, Completely Lost by Perri Lynch, Fall 2003 ~ Velocity Made Good

Chamber Music by Steve Roden, Summer 2003 ~ inbetweennoise.com

Klavier Nonette by Trimpin, Spring 2003

Revisiting Septermber 11, 19[72] by Mark Polishook & Lisa Hutton ~ revisiting

Perfect Pitch by Jim Pridgeon, Summer 2002 ~ Press Release

and there was concrete skin for your face by Maureen Whiting, Spring 2002 ~ Maureen Whiting Company

7Ply - Plywood and Memory by Don Fels, Winter 2001/02

Soundescapes by Matthew Bauer

Salmon Song by Jim Pridgeon, Summer 2001 ~ Salmon Song

Heard Said by Stuart Keeler, Spring 2001

Uroborous - Light and Sound by Bret Battey, Fall 2000 ~ Bret Battey

Dream Time Pieces by Stuart Dempster and Renko Ishida Dempster, Spring 2000

Nearly Seen, Closely Heard by Susie Kozawa and Jesse Minkert, Winter 1999/2000





About Jack Straw Artist Residencies

Jack Straw Productions focuses on annual artist residencies through our Artist Support Program, our Writers Program, and New Media Gallery Residency Program. These programs offer established and emerging artists an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Proposals are reviewed by an interdisciplinary peer panel (Artist Support and New Media Gallery programs) or Curator (Writers Program).


Jack Straw Productions gratefully acknowledges the support from the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, ArtsFund, the Mayor's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture King County Lodging Tax Fund, the Washington State Arts Commission, the National Endowment for the Arts, and our individual contributors for their vital support of our programs and services.
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Wires (2008), an 8-channel sound installation for tin cans, piezo loudspeakers, and steel wires, by Jason Kahn. Listen to our interview with Jason Kahn.
Still from TERMINUS (2007), 4-channel video and audio installation by David Kwan.
Untitled (2004), room installation for lasers and sound, by Iole Alesandrini.