Personal and Student Visual Communication Design Portfolio
B.F.A. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Graduate Certificate in New Digital Media, George Brown / Ryerson, Toronto, Canada
M.F.A. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Instructor:
Rutgers, Mason Gross School of the Arts, 2014-2016
Institute of American Indian Arts, 2016 - Fall 2016
I have been doing graphic design work for the Centre for Indigenous Theater since 2007.
The poster above is a design option for the 2016 Final Graduate Performance.
This 2016 design is an option for the accompanying promotional post cards.
This poster was designed for the 2016 Rutgers M.F.A. Graduate Exhibition.
I am currently working on a new digital dome piece at the Institute of American Indian Arts, while on residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. The new dome piece is slated to be presented in 2017. The new piece will leverage aspects of the Great Chief Star, performed by Santee Smith in real time for a live audience. There will also be a HD capturing her performance, so that a cinematic version can circulate to various Digital Dome venues internationally.
The Great Chief Star
The Great Chief Star, a mission to heal water, commissioned for the Pan Am Path, 2015
The Great Chief Star, is an original 45 minute multi-media performative presentation. Cree Cosmology is the central point of investigation in this new work. Cree Métis artist, Jason Baerg takes us on a journey in the four directions around the Earth, past the Moon, beyond Morning Star (Venus) and the Sun, to Kisci-Okima-Achak (The Great Chief Star). DJ, Michael Red enhances the experience as he composes an original music score. New masterworks are created by international acclaimed Mohawk choreographer and dancer, Santee Smith alongside Inuk contemporary performance artist Tanya Tag, who co-pilots this flight with her unconventional approach to Throat Singing. Jason Baerg creates digital abstractions to punctuate this new media voyage, which are projected behind the performers. The interactive new media projections are produced in collaboration with JS Gauriter and serves to punctuate the dance gestures of Santee Smith and the vocal dynamics of Tanya Tagaq utilizing Xbox Kinect technologies in real time.
Extended Media
Oskâyi Askîy, 2016
As part of a developing body of work, Oskâyi Askîy, is slated for exhibitions into 2017
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Below are digital abstractions to be utilized in a randomized software patch intended for a immersive projection installation, ᐅᐢᑳᔨ ᐊᐢᑮᕀ (Pronounced Oskâyi Askîy, which means The New World in Cree), a work that is currently being produced at the Santa Fe Art Institute. To be presented in 2016 / 2017 in exhibitions in the USA, Mexico and Canada.
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there was no end
Immersive Randomized Interactive Digital Media
there was no end utilizes significant symbolic Indigenous numeric values to inform narrative, color and repetition and references Indigenous notions of circular time.
The 360° spherical display of 360 abstracted symbols of the Sun the Moon and the Earth appear in sequences of 13 to reference many Indigenous communities' 13-moon calendar.
there was no end utilizes ground-breaking research and development in the integration of motion sensors to trigger interactivity in the world's first fully articulated digital dome.
Presented at:
• The 18th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Santa Fe, the Digital Dome at the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2012 and the first interactive piece for the IAIA Digital Dome.
• The IMERSA Summit 2013, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado.
CIT Poster Design 2015
CIT Poster Design 2014
CIT Poster Design 2013
I designed the cover of this zine for Kimiwan (which means Rain in Cree) in 2013.
Kimiwan is an Indigenous Arts publication. I drew inspiration by the housing crisis in Attawapiskat First Nation, while Debeers was concurrently extracting some of the hardest clearest diamonds in the world out of their traditional territories.
Kisik Acimowina (translated most often as Sky Story in Cree)
Kisik Acimowina is an experimental collaborative multimedia piece created by New Media Artists Jason Baerg, Carrie Gates and Music Composer, Michael Red. The work explores a time-collapsing journey in our land, from the perspective of a single traveller inside an ever-evolving land and skyscape.
Kisik Acimowina
It world premiered at "The Wrong" New Digital Art Biennale initiated from São Paulo, Brasil and curated within the Anthony Antonellis pavilion, which opened on Nov. 1, 2013.
Nomadic Bounce Performance
Utilizing Xbox kinect technology and video mapping software Jason Baerg, Adrian Stimson and Jean-Sebastien Gauthier used experimental performative drawing techniques to erase videos of the present to reveal the past and erase the past to reveal the future in a public performance.
The Plain Truth, Commission for the Virtual Museum of Canada, 2008
The Plain Truth was inspired from an airplane passenger's window view of the Great Plains of North America by Jason Baerg. The Plain Truth: RYBW installation was designed by the artist to encourage a sense of engagement, reflection and empowered visioning.
Youth Mentored Visual Support
Pricelys - Nomadic Bounce
I am grateful and proud to have shared amazing exchanges with Indigenous Youth from around the world. Zoey Roy is one that I am most humbly grateful to have mentored over the years. This Cree Metis M.C and activist has taken inspiration in the creation of this song and video from one of my artist talks at the University of Saskatchewan about the Nomadic Bounce installation that toured Canada. In 2016, Zoey won the transformational Inspired Youth Award and continues to encourage empowerment to Indigenous Youth in meaningful ways. It was an honor to provide her with letter of support for this prestigious national award.
Dan Guinta - Color and the Senses
I really enjoyed teaching at Rutgers University! This work was created by one of my many gifted Visual Thinking Color students. This work was so impactful, that I later co-curated (with Basia Goszczynska) it into the 2015 Expanding Wilderness exhibition at the Mason Gross Galleries.
