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| 1995 |
First World Wide Web exhibition of photographs with KOAN,
in Washington,DC. • Enrolls in MFA
Photography and Related Media program at the School
of Visual Arts in New York city, even after being
told by the Chairman that..."No one else in the department
wanted you here. They all think your work is shallow."
Jay ponders emptiness and vacancy. • Discovers work
of Gerhard
Richter, Robert Heineken, and Garry
Winogrand. • Begins taking candid street shots
of women in the city. • Meets and develops intimate
relationship with GWU
law student Désirée Goldfinger.
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| 1996 |
Creates his first World Wide Web Site, including Street
Shot Monthly, an on-line collection of his street photographs.
• Develops crush on Martha Stewart. • Summer
job for the now-defunct Wolff New Media, manipulating
images for the "NetClock". Quits job in August,
two months before company goes bankrupt and owner Michael
Wolff leaves the country. (Mr. Wolff is now a new media
commentator for various publications.) • Becomes
WebMaster for the MFA
Photography and the Related Media program at the School
of Visual Arts. • After viewing Jay's work, photographer/instructor
Joel Sternfeld tells him: "You're not going to show in
any gallery! You'll be lucky to exhibit in a pizza parlour!!"
Jay begins pizza parlour mailing list.
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| 1997 | Returns
to painting and drawing, attempting to understand the
differences between mechanical and human sight. •
Realizes that since his work is so diverse, with photographs,
drawings, collage and compugraphics, it can be arranged
as if it were a group show. Artist/instructor John Illig
encourages: "You are the curator of your own work." •
Quits indulging in illicit substances. • Summer web-production
internship at Studio
Archetype, NYC, working on the homepage for ibm.com.
• Designs and produces new SVA MFAPhoto web site.
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| 1998 | Meets
Christy Turlington.They share a laugh over their photographic
history instructor Shelly Rice. • Develops thesis
using various mediums to represent the figure and his
intimate, yet superficial, relationship with images of
women. Focuses on beauty, stereotype, and cliche. Works
with thesis instructor Lisa Spellman, thesis advisor Kenny
Schachter and fellow students to bring various forms of
work together as a whole. • After much eleventh-hour
deliberation, the MFA Photo thesis committee reluctantly
grants Jay his degree. Their complaints include allegations
that the body of work
is incoherent and that it is just plain "bad art". •
Graduates from School
of VISUAL ARTS with MFA in Photography and Related
Media. • Moves into Hoboken apartment with Désirée.
• Launches redesigned web-site on Geocities. •
In-house graphic designer for the architects at Gabellini
Associates, NYC. • Watercolors in Central Park and
nude figure drawing in the evenings.
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| 1999 | Begins
new work which combines his photographs with images from
video games. Explores the rift between the real and the
virtual. Plays lots of video games. • Continues work
with Gabellini
Associates, creating their web-site and developing
a better understanding of the role good design plays in
expressing a society's values and ideas. Learns about
architecture and becomes a better designer. • Works
with architects to create video featured in the Smithsonian
Institution's First Triennial of Design at the Cooper
Hewitt Design Museum. • Launches face-lift for web-site.
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